Past Events

We live in a world where thousands of languages are in danger of extinction – and writing has a huge role to play, both in supporting the continued use of threatened languages and as a threatened element of culture in its own right.

CamPAL and Cambridge Linguistics Society are pleased to welcome Dr Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck, University of London) who will be presenting on 'The crucial role of learner emotions in the Foreign language class'.

This Cambridge Distinguished Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching Language by Professor Alison Phipps, University of Glasgow, is part of a series of Second Language Education Group (SLEG) events. 

This workshop, led by Alison Phipps and Tawona Sitholé from the University of Glasgow, is part of a series of Second Language Education Group (SLEG) events. All SLEG seminars are free and will take place in person in Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge For additional queries about this seminar, please contact Phung Dao:

The Cambridge Language Sciences (CLS) Annual Symposium is an annual meeting of minds, bringing together language scientists of all disciplines from the University of Cambridge for an afternoon of talks, poster presentations and informal networking. This year's Symposium will take place in person at Cripps Court, Magdalene College on Thursday 24

In second language (L2) classrooms, one of the teachers’ frequent concerns is how to engage learners in classroom activities. The general assumption is that when learners are highly engaged in the classroom activities, it is likely to result in greater learning outcomes.

Cambridge Language Sciences are supporting this presentation skills training which is free to our network members.

Priority will be given to those presenting a poster at the Language Sciences Annual Symposium on 24 November.

This in-person seminar is part of the Second Language Education Group (2022) seminar series.

It marks the publication of ‘Multilingualism and Identity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’ (ed. Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Linda Fisher, CUP, 2022).

What would intelligent beings from other planets be like? It seems highly unlikely that beings capable of developing a technological civilisation could do so without a "language", i.e. a means to generate, store, and communicate information.

Human societies have evolved a variety of successful structures for communication and negotiation between individuals with diverse or conflicting viewpoints. These range from manners governing polite conversation, to laws around jury trials, procedures for formal debates, academic peer review, and even the processes of democratic elections.