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Information about current opportunities and past events
Accents, Attitudes and Identity: Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Topics covered in this free four week online course for both students and teachers:
Introduction to the study of language attitudes
How do you measure attitudes?
What is the relationship between language and identity?
Why language attitudes matter
For more information visit york.ac.uk/moocs.
You can start and finish the course at any time with free access for six weeks.
Try out some taster lesson segments (no registration needed)
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Live Workshop talk 2022 [20 mins]
CPD2022_Dan Clayton_slides.pdfSlides from Dan's 2022 Live Workshop talk
2022 workshop
Dan Clayton (of EngLangBlog) rounded off the 2022 workshop with his "putting it into practice" talk, including a review of all 25 case studies to date.
Our focussed researchers in 2022 were:
Live Webinar talk 2021 [19 mins]
CPD2021 DC presentation.pdfSlides from Dan's 2021 Live Webinar talk
2021 workshop
Dan Clayton (of EngLangBlog) rounded off the 2021 workshop with his "putting it into practice" talk.
Our focussed researchers in 2021 were:
Live Webinar talk 2020 [19 mins]
Dan Clayton York CPD 2020 putting it into practice.pptxSlides from Dan's 2020 Live Webinar talk
2020 workshop
Dan Clayton (of EngLangBlog) rounded off the 2020 workshop in his putting it into practice talk (20 mins).
Our focussed researchers in 2020 were:
Dan Clayton York CPD 2019 putting it into practice.pdf2019 workshop
Dan Clayton (of EngLangBlog) summarised the 2019 workshop in his putting it into practice talk.
Speakers included:
Dan Clayton York CPD 2015 slides.pdf2015 workshop
Dan Clayton (of EngLangBlog) attended our 2015 workshop on behalf of the AQA, to provide guidance for use of the workshop materials in teaching for the AQA specification.
Dan's slides are available here to view (© AQA) and they include the following case studies:
Previous workshops
All of the materials on this site have been tested with teachers at one or more CPD workshops at the University of York. If you use the materials and have feedback or questions please let us know.