The York English Language Toolkit

CPD Workshop 2026

Our FREE fully hybrid CPD workshop will took place on Friday 10th July 2026 10.30am-4.30pm

10:00am–10:30am Registration 10:30am-11.30am Language Use (Kobin Kendrick): Question & Answer sequences in conversation (revisiting a 2019 talk) 11.30am-11.45am Tea/coffee break 11.45am-12.45pm Language Attitudes (Sam Hellmuth & Elisa Passoni): Is there a "Multicultural London English intonation"? 12.45pm-1.30pm Lunch 1.30pm-2.30pm Language Change (Devyani Sharma): Cycles of language change in London 2.30pm-3.30pm Language Diversity (Devyani Sharma): London teenagers over twenty years 3.30pm-3.45pm Tea/coffee break 3.45pm-4.30pm Putting it into Practice (Josh Coombs): Using these materials in teaching for the AQA specification

The 2026 workshop featured talks from:

Kobin Kendrick on Q&A Sequences through the lens of Conversation Analysis [revisiting a talk from 2019]
Sam Hellmuth & Elisa Passoni on Is there a "Multicultural London English intonation"?
Devyani Sharma on Cycles of language change in London
Devyani Sharma on London teenagers over 20 years
- Josh Coombs on "Putting it into practice for the A level English Language classroom."

All supporting materials are now freely available via each case study webpage:

Q&A Sequences and Conversation Analysis

Is there a "Multicultural London English intonation"?

Sam Hellmuth & Elisa Passoni

Cycles of language change in London

London teenagers over twenty years

The 2026 workshop features three talks from the Generations of London English project:

FAQs

Here are answers from the authors to questions asked during the workshop:

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And there's more! - take a look around the rest of the site (and beyond):

Using the materials

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

Check out our AQA index

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

Intro Sociolinguistics MOOC

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Free MOOC taster lessons

Ten lesson segments from the MOOC

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