CPD Workshop 2024

Our FREE CPD workshop took place on Monday 15th July 2024 10.30am-4.30pm [talk recordngs will be available soon]

10:00am–10:30am Registration 10:30am-11.30am Language Use/Language Change (Sam Hellmuth) Prosodic performance and the Queen’s speech 11.30am-11.45am Tea/coffee break 11.45am-12.45pm Language Change (Eytan Zweig) Change in the syntax and semantics of 'be like' quotatives 12.45pm-1.30pm Lunch 1.30pm-2.30pm Language Diversity/Attitudes (Joe Pearce) Voice quality, pitch and the perception of gender 2.30pm-3.30pm Language Attitudes/Use (James Tompkinson) Lost in transcription: the case of police interviews 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 2024 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.

This year's workshop featured talks from: 

Supporting materials are available via each case study webpage: 

Can't wait for next year? 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