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Register now for our 2025 workshop:
FREE annual CPD workshops for teachers of English Language A level
FREE annual CPD workshops for teachers of English Language A level
York English Language Toolkit 2025
York English Language Toolkit 2025
Friday 11th July 2025 10.00am-4.30pm fully hybrid (in person in York and online)
A FREE CPD workshop for teachers of English Language A-level, featuring:
Catherine Laing on child language acquisition
Lauren Harrington on forensic linguistics
Salina Cuddy on language and gender/sexuality
Paul Kerswill on attitudes to Multicultural London English (revisiting a 2015 case study)
Plus new this year: Josh Coombs on putting it into practice in the classroom
Can't wait for the next workshop?
Can't wait for the next workshop?
Try our free four week online course Accents, Attitudes and Identity: Introduction to Sociolinguistics:
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 at any time with free access for four weeks.
Try some taster lesson segments
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Previous workshops
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.
Workshop talk (video)
CPD2024_Dan_Clayton_slides.pdfSlides from Dan's 2024 talk
2024
2024
Dan Clayton's 2024 workshop "putting it into practice" talk.
Our research talks in 2024 were:
Sam Hellmuth on Prosodic performance and the (late) Queen’s speech
Eytan Zweig on Change in the syntax and semantics of 'be like' quotatives
Joe Pearce on Voice quality, pitch and the perception of gender
James Tompkinson on Lost in transcription: the case of police interviews
Talk recording [36 mins]
CPD2023_Dan_Clayton_slides.pdfSlides from Dan's 2023 talk
2023
2023
Dan Clayton's 2023 workshop "putting it into practice" talk.
Our research talks in 2023 were:
Claire Childs on Perception of non-standard grammar
Tamar Keren-Portnoy on What helps babies learn new words
George Bailey on Mapping dialect change
Carmen Llamas on attitudes and forensic speech analysis
Live Workshop talk 2022 [20 mins]
CPD2022_Dan Clayton_slides.pdfSlides from Dan's 2022 Live Workshop talk
2022
2022
Dan Clayton's 2022 workshop "putting it into practice" talk, including a review of all 25 case studies to date.
Focussed research in 2022 was:
Live Webinar talk 2021 [19 mins]
CPD2021 DC presentation.pdfSlides from Dan's 2021 Live Webinar talk
2021
2021
Dan Clayton's 2021 workshop "putting it into practice" talk.
Focussed research in 2021 was:
Live Webinar talk 2020 [19 mins]
Dan Clayton York CPD 2020 putting it into practice.pptxSlides from Dan's 2020 Live Webinar talk
2020
2020
Dan Clayton (of EngLangBlog) rounded off the 2020 workshop in his putting it into practice talk (20 mins).
Focussed research in 2020 was:
Dan Clayton York CPD 2019 putting it into practice.pdf2019 workshop
2019 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
2015 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:
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