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Chaucer for Beginners

Chaucer 6 - Chaucer’s legacy

Professor Marion Turner looks at Chaucer's legacy and the changes in societal perception of Chaucer. She also looks at online resources to help the beginner study Chaucer.
Chaucer for Beginners

Chaucer 5 - The Language of Chaucer

Professor Marion Turner delves into Geoffrey Chaucer's language and writing style. Chaucer championed a vernacular English form of writing, a departure from the prevalent use of Latin or French in poetry and the law.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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General Linguistics Seminar: TT21 Week 7

Formal Aspects of Underspecified Features (Professor Ron Kaplan, Stanford University)
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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General Linguistics Seminar: TT21 Week 5

Variability in Breton gender and mutation: the impact of language decline and revitalisation on morphology (Dr Holly Kennard, University of Oxford)
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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General Linguistics Seminar: TT21 Week 3

Conversations with strangers: Explorations in the syntax of English (William Labov, University of Pennsylvania)
Linguamania

How 'foreign' are 'foreign languages'?

Many people think foreign languages are alien to us, unless of course we've spent years studying them. But is this really the case? Or can we actually understand some words in a different language – even if we've never studied that language before?
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Tolkien's turning point: Tolkien and the history of tongues

Tom Shippey's lecture will move from the detail to the (eventual) design of Tolkien's languages, and even the philosophical issues embedded in Tolkien's fiction.
Department of Education Public Seminars

Literacy and foundation learning in multilingual India

Dr Sonali Nag, Oxford Departmant of Education, gives a talk for the public seminar series hosted by the department's Families, Effecrive Learning and Literacy Research Group
Department of Education Public Seminars

Stability and change in developmental language disorders

Professor Professor Courtenay Norbury, University College London, gives a talk for the public seminar series hosted by the Department of Education's Applied Linguistics Research Group.
Department of Education Public Seminars

Measuring and developing second language fluency

Professor Judit Kormos, Lancaster University, gives a talk for the Department of Education seminar series.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

How English Became English

A Book at Lunchtime discussion looking at the English language and how it is developing with Simon Horobin, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, Martin Wynne, Philip Durkin and Susie Dent.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Intercultural Literary Practices

Laura Lonsdale (Queen's College, Oxford): 'Barbarisms: Multilingualism and Modernity in Narratives of the Spanish- speaking World’. Respondent: Jane Hiddleston (French/Oxford)
Department of Education Public Seminars

Multi-Word Vocabulary and literacy development in children with English as an Additional Language

Dr Vicky Murphy talks on research examining figurative vocabulary knowledge in primary school children with EAL, examining collocations (multiword phrases) and idioms and the relative contribution this type of word knowledge makes to literacy development.
Wolfson College Podcasts

In conversation with Steven Pinker

Experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist, and popular science author Steven Pinker fields questions from Graduate students at Wolfson College.
Department of Education Public Seminars

Heritage Speaker Bilingualism: Input Issues in Grammatical Outcomes

Professor Jason Rothman presents a survey of experimental research examining the grammatical knowledge and performances of heritage speaker bilinguals, most of which demonstrate that as a group they differ significantly from monolingual counterparts.
Department of Education Public Seminars

Can a single model of task complexity differentiate between the difficulty of writing and speaking tasks?

Dr Parvaneh Tavakoli is Lecturer in TESOL & Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading. In this presentation the existing models of task difficulty will be introduced and their applicability to L2 writing and speaking modes will be examined.
Department of Education Public Seminars

English as an Additional Language: Talking to Learn?

Prof. Leung (King's College London) has worked for many years in the field of second/additional language education. His academic and research interests include classroom pedagogy, content and language-integrated curriculum development, language assessment
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

HiCor: a Cross-Disciplinary Network for History and Corpus Linguistics

Gabor Mihaly Toth talks about a network of corpus linguists, computational linguists, and historians who are aiming to study how the resources, tools and methods of corpus linguistics can be used to address important historical research questions.
Alumni Weekend

Hard words, best words words in use, writing the inventory of english

English, as its vocabulary confirms, is constantly on the move - both words and meaning act as witnesses to time and change, revealing the diverse pathways of contact and conflict with other nations, as well as changes in culture and identity.

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