CPD Workshop 2023

Our 2023 workshop took place on Monday 10th July 2023 10.30am-4.30pm

10:00am–10:30am Registration 10:30am-11.30am Language Diversity (Claire Childs) More is less: perception of non-standard regional grammar 11.30am-11.45am Tea/coffee break 11.45am-12.45pm Language Acquisition (Tamar Keren-Portnoy) Isolated words are easier 12.45am-1.30pm Lunch 1.30pm-2.30pm Language Change (George Bailey) Mapping dialect change from the Our Dialects survey 2.30pm-3.30pm Language Attitudes (Carmen Llamas) The jury's out: language attitudes and forensic speech analysis 3.30pm-3.45pm Tea/coffee break 3.45pm-4.30pm Putting it into Practice (Dan Clayton) Using these materials in teaching for the AQA specification

If you missed our 2023 workshop, edited recordings of talks from the workshop will be available shortly on case study pages; see below for links to materials for all the talks.

Our 2023 workshop features talks from: 

Toolkit thoughts on Lexis Podcast

For personal reflections from some of the case study authors, check out the 40th edition of the Lexis podcast! 

Supporting materials for the four case studies:

In the meantime, take a look around the rest of the site (and beyond):

How to access, download and re-use the Toolkit classroom materials under our Creative Commons licence.

A guided tour of the Toolkit site (with links to case studies) organised around the structure of the AQA specification.

Try our FREE 4-week online course ('MOOC' ) on language attitudes

Ten lesson segments from the MOOC