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Friday, May 5, 2017 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Data-Driven Learning: Can and Should Language Learners Become Corpus Linguists?

ALERT: DUE TO FLIGHT CANCELLATION, THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED. IF YOU WERE HOPING TO COME, YOU CAN READ UP ON NINA VYATKINA'S RESEARCH ONLINE. WE KNOW; IT'S NOT THE SAME THING.

Friday, September 29, 2017 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

New fables for a New World: Burkard Waldis’s Aesopian Fable Collection

In 1548 Burkard Waldis published his version of an Aesopian Fable collection. The title promises Aesopian fables “completely renewed” with a hundred “new fables” never published before. What the ‘new’ entails is never established by the author, but an analysis of the text shows that it challenges our modern understanding of the fable. Waldis presents tales that follow a typical fable format: short little stories with animals followed by a short sentence with a moral lesson.

Die ersten Monate des Fremdsprachenunterrichts zu gestalten, stellt für Lehrende eine große Herausforderung dar. Mit dem Begriff des „Sprachnotstandsgebiets A“ hat Rösler (2013) all die Schwierigkeiten treffend charakterisiert, die sich gerade mit dieser Phase des Lernprozesses verbinden.

Thursday, March 15, 2018 6:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Overcoming the myth of the native speaker

Overcoming the myth of the native speaker. Challenges and successes.

The monolingual disposition (Gogolin, 1994) of our societies and school systems is a big obstacle to innovation in language education. In particular, it constitutes a filter that prevents appreciation of linguistic and cultural diversity and fails to acknowledge learners’ resources and funds of knowledge. However, a movement away from a linear vision of language education into a more dynamic and flexible one capable of dealing with multilingual classes and plurilingual individuals is in place.

Thursday, September 20, 2018 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Grimm Lecture 2018

Gareth Stedman Jones, FBA - When would Capitalism end? 

In recognition of Karl Marx's 200th birthday, WCGS is honoured to welcome distinguished Professor Gareth Stedman Jones for the Grimm Lecture 2018.