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2011 12 07

• Wednesday 7 December 2011, 2.00 pm
• Dr Almut Koester, University of Birmingham
• Teaching Decision-making: Using Research in Workplace Discourse for Business English teaching materials
  

2011 10 12

• Wednesday 12 October 2011, 2.00 pm. Joint event with ELLTA research group.
• Dr Sophie Reissner-Roubicek and Dr Sue Wharton
• EAP for statistics students: issues in teaching, and findings from a learner corpus

2011 05 18

• Wednesday 18 May 2011, 11.00 am
• Dr Steve Walsh, University of Newcastle
• Promoting classroom interactional competence

20110112

• Date & Time: Wednesday 12 January 2011 (14.00- 15.30 pm)
• Dr Paul Wickens, Oxford Brookes University
• Assessed Reflective Writing: formulaic language and technologies of the self

20101117

• Date & Time: Wednesday 17 November 2010 (14.00-15.00 pm)
• Dr Tiny Ramoroka, University of Botswana.
• A Textual and Contextual Comparison of Voice in Student Writing in the EAP Preparatory Course and Two Undergraduate Courses at the University of Botswana

20101118

• Date & Time: Thursday 18th November2010 16.00 - 17.30. Joint PAD/WACC session.
• Professor Cornelia Ilie, Professor of English Linguistics, Malmö University, Sweden.
• Gender Perspectives on Parliamentary Discourse, with particular reference to the UK Parliament and the Swedish Riksdag (showing video clips from the two parliaments).

20100518

• Date & Time: Tuesday 18 May 2010 (14.00-16.00pm)
• Dr Nicholas Groom (Centre for English Language Studies, University of Birmingham)
• "Phraseology and epistemology in humanities writing"

20100506

• Date & Time: Thursday 18 May 2010 (14.00-16.00pm)
• Dr Malcolm N. MacDonald
• "Multiple interfaces: Language, context and cognition in medical discourse"

20100316

• Date & Time: Tuesday 16 March 2010 (13.00-14.00pm)
• Invited talk by Duncan Hunter (Royal Holloway, University of London)
• "Using Corpus Tools for Teaching and Research"

20100310

• Date & Time: Wednesday 10 March 2010 (14.00-15.00pm)
• Invited talk by Dr Julio Gimenez (Centre for English Language Education, University of Nottingham)
• "Conceptions of 'efficiency' in written and spoken communication: Views from business, engineering and health sciences"

20090515

• Friday 15 May - Saturday 16 May 2009
• BAAL-CUP Seminar 2009
• "Connecting Discourses: Academic and Professional Worlds"

20090514

• Thursday 14 May 2009
• Invited talk by Dr Ali S. Hasan
• "Analysis of EFL Elementary Textbooks in Syria and Germany: Cognitive, Affective and Procedural Aspects in Their Inter-Cultural Context"

20090312

• Thursday 12 March 2009
  
• Talk by Dr Keith Richards, University of Warwick
• "Identity and Positioining in Academic Argument"
  

20080618

• Wednesday 18 June 2008
• Talk by Prof. Michael Hoey, University of Liverpool
•  "Death to the Topic Sentence"