L2 Fluency Workshop

Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) and the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading were delighted to host a BAAL-Routledge L2 fluency workshop on Thursday 15th October 2015. The 25 delegates attending the event included PhD students, early-career and experienced researchers in second language acquisition and multilingualism traveling from around the country to participate in the workshop. The workshop included training in CLAN and PRAAT with hands on activities, a poster session, a panel discussion and a surgery slot.

The positive feedback we have received so far clearly suggests that the event has been very successful particularly in terms of training PhD students, consolidating the current understandings of the L2 fluency, contributing to the agenda for future research in this area and creating a community of practice among students, practitioners and researchers interested in L2 fluency.

 

The workshop was held at the historical venue of London Road Campus of the University and included lunch and coffee breaks offering networking and discussion opportunities to the delegates. Dr Clare Wight, who is Director of Bilingualism Matters at Reading and a member of the Steering Committee at CeLM, was the leader of the workshop. Dr Parvaneh Tavakoli was co-leading the event, and Professor Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Dr Louise Courtney and Mrs Anne-Marie Hunter ran the training sessions. We would like to acknowledge that the workshop was financially supported by CeLM funding and a loan from BAAL-Routledge seminar series.

 

 

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