Contensis: http://www.contentmanagement.co.uk http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/language-news.aspx?SyndicationType=2 2013-05-20T23:00:48Z William Fallows

An opportunity to gain first-hand experience of the unique Chinese business and cultural environments through a professional internship with the British Council, Shanghai.

2013-05-13T10:47:00Z 2013-05-13T09:57:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2013/crcc-scholarship.aspx William Fallows

Paul Thompson and Susan Hunston have been successful in their application to the ESRC for funding for this two year research project on interdisciplinary discourse.

2013-05-13T10:47:00Z 2013-05-13T10:03:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2013/global-environmental-change.aspx William Fallows

Emily Russell has been offered a two-month summer internship at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

2013-05-13T10:46:00Z 2013-05-13T09:44:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2013/united-nations-internship.aspx William Fallows

Professor Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) delivered the annual John Sinclair Lecture [streaming video].

2013-05-10T14:55:00Z 2013-05-13T10:14:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2013/tony-mcenery.aspx William Fallows

Dr Geoff Barnbrook and Dr Oliver Mason have just published an exciting new book with co-author Ramesh Krishnamurthy on collocation.

2013-04-29T13:14:00Z 2013-04-29T09:51:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2013/collocation-applications-implications.aspx William Fallows

A major new research collaboration between Professor Guy Cook, from the Department of Education & Professional Studies, King's College London and Dr Alison Sealey at the University of Birmingham.

2013-04-03T20:30:00Z 2013-04-17T09:55:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2013/leverhulme-sealey.aspx William Fallows

Jeannette Littlemore co-authors a book on Figurative Language, Genre and Register. Information about the book and a podcast from Jeannette and her two co-authors, Alice Deignan and Elena Semino can be found here on the Cambridge University Press Website.

2013-04-03T11:00:00Z 2013-04-03T11:18:00Z http://bit.ly/10uYO6j Alberto Guglielmi

Paul Thompson will visit the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to discuss possible research collaboration.

2013-03-22T18:26:00Z 2013-03-22T18:21:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2013/uiuc.aspx Alberto Guglielmi

Paul Thompson took part in a one day colloquium at the University of Limerick.

2013-03-22T18:18:00Z 2013-03-22T18:17:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2013/corpus-limerick.aspx William Fallows

Professor Lawrence Anthony and Dr Yasu Noshima recognised by Japan Association of English Corpus Studies.

2013-01-07T19:47:00Z 2013-01-07T19:46:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/news/2013/jaecs-alumni.aspx William Fallows

New video featuring staff and students discussing English Language, English Literature and Creative Writing.

2012-12-13T14:10:00Z 2012-12-13T14:38:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2012/english-video.aspx William Fallows

Caroline Tagg speaks to Radio Oxford.

2012-12-03T14:47:00Z 2012-12-10T15:32:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2012/happy-birthday-text-message.aspx Jonathan Laidlow

Applications are now being sought for 10 interns at leading cultural organisations within the West Midlands region as part of the University's Cultural Partnership Scheme. The paid placements are for 6 months and will start in October 2012.

2012-07-04T14:04:00Z 2013-03-11T13:22:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/culture/volunteering/regionally.aspx William Fallows

Podcast by Dr Caroline Tagg

2012-06-25T13:45:00Z 2012-10-25T17:39:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2012/the-language-of-text-messaging-and-social-networks.aspx William Fallows

Video recording of recent event introduced by Joe Bennett.

2012-05-11T11:54:00Z 2012-05-11T11:49:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2012/cels2012/owen-jones.aspx Alberto Guglielmi

Paul Thompson is an invited plenary speaker at Tamkang University, Taiwan.

2012-04-13T14:06:00Z 2013-03-22T08:57:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/Tamkang.aspx William Fallows

Michael Toolan will be giving talks at three universities in Madrid (UAM, UCM, and St Louis University, Madrid Campus), and a plenary at Symposium on 'The Failed Text' in Granada, Spain.

2012-04-13T13:30:00Z 2012-04-13T13:18:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2012/the-failed-text.aspx William Fallows

In March, Chris Kennedy gave the opening plenary at a British Council language policy conference in Caracas, Venezuela, and was a panel member on Managing Innovation at IATEFL Glasgow.

2012-04-13T13:18:00Z 2012-04-13T13:15:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2012/chris-kennedy-march.aspx William Fallows

For two months from late March 2012, Wolfgang Teubert will be a Visiting Professor at Henan Normal Universiy, Xinxiang, China. During his eight weeks in China he will be giving talks at a number of neighbouring universities.

2012-04-13T11:56:00Z 2012-04-13T11:47:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2012/teubert-march.aspx William Fallows

Ruth Kircher (Teaching Fellow) has just been awarded the Prix du Québec, which will enable her to travel to Quebec for a research visit this summer.

2012-04-13T11:43:00Z 2012-04-13T11:38:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2012/prix-de-quebec.aspx William Fallows

Jeanette Littlemore co-authors paper.

2012-04-13T11:43:00Z 2013-03-09T15:21:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2012/cels2012/figurative-proficiency.aspx William Fallows

A paper by Michael Toolan on the role and nature of 'good' lexical repetition in literary creativity published in a collection entitled Discourse and Creativity, ed. Rodney Jones, with Longman.

2012-04-13T11:43:00Z 2013-03-09T15:22:00Z http://catalogue.pearsoned.co.uk/educator/product/Discourse-and-Creativity/9781408251881.page William Fallows

Almut Koester speaks at the annual conference in Glasgow.

2012-04-13T11:26:00Z 2012-04-13T13:41:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2012/iatefl.aspx William Fallows

Almut Koester co-authors new Cambridge University Press courses.

2012-04-13T11:01:00Z 2013-03-09T15:22:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2012/business-advantage.aspx William Fallows

Paul Thompson gave an invited talk at the Department of Education, Oxford University, on 27th February 2012

2012-02-29T16:37:00Z 2012-03-08T14:04:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/oxford-talk.aspx William Fallows

Dr Martin Hewings' 'Advanced Grammar in Use'.

2012-01-16T09:50:00Z 2012-01-16T09:34:00Z http://www.london24.com/news/quirky-london/grammar_guide_is_most_borrowed_library_book_in_westminster_1_1176146 William Fallows

Paul Thompson visit to the British University in Dubai.

2012-01-11T10:08:00Z 2012-01-11T09:57:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/ccr-dubai.aspx William Fallows

Four day workshop at the University of Birmingham in March.

2012-01-11T10:08:00Z 2012-01-11T10:06:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/events/R-workshop.aspx William Fallows

Paul Thompson will be an invited plenary speaker at the International Meeting of the Spanish Association of Corpus Linguistics (Asociación Española de LINgüística de COrpus), to be held in Jaén 22-24 March 2012.

2012-01-05T17:56:00Z 2012-01-11T09:55:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/cilc12.aspx Paul Thompson

Announcement of the University of Birmingham's first Birmingham/Melbourne Summer/Winter School in Applied Linguistics, 2-13 July 2012.

2012-01-05T17:56:00Z 2012-02-15T14:10:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/SummerWinter-School.aspx William Fallows

Video interviews with staff and students of the Centre for English Language Studies.

2011-12-16T17:57:00Z 2011-12-19T10:27:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/cels2011/december-graduations.aspx William Fallows

Video interview with Jason Moser.

2011-12-13T14:54:00Z 2011-12-13T15:34:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/jason-moser.aspx William Fallows

Congratulations to John Lin Ming Huei, who successfully defended his PhD thesis in December 2011.

2011-12-09T15:42:00Z 2011-12-09T15:40:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/cels2011/blog-assisted.aspx William Fallows

Wolfgang Teubert visiting Anyang, Beijing, Xinxiang and Luoyang.

2011-11-29T13:29:00Z 2011-11-29T13:28:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/chinese-lecture-tour.aspx William Fallows

Almut Koester speaking in Dubrovnik.

2011-11-29T13:23:00Z 2011-11-29T13:17:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/dubrovnik.aspx William Fallows

Michael Toolan to speak in Leicester and Helsinki.

2011-11-29T13:17:00Z 2011-11-29T13:08:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/stylistic-analysis-short-stories.aspx William Fallows

Speaking invites for Susan Hunston.

2011-11-29T13:17:00Z 2011-11-29T13:13:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/jacet.aspx William Fallows

Deadline for applications - 6 January 2012

2011-11-24T13:27:00Z 2011-11-24T13:55:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/care/news/2011/fellowship.aspx William Fallows

Nick Groom at the KOTESOL International Conference in Seoul.

2011-11-23T13:01:00Z 2011-11-23T12:54:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/cels2011/kotesol.aspx William Fallows

New publication from CELS tutors and alumni.

2011-11-23T10:00:00Z 2013-03-09T15:26:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/cels2011/innovating-efl.aspx William Fallows

Congratulations to Garry Plappert who successfully defended his PhD thesis in October 2011.

2011-11-15T18:23:00Z 2011-11-16T16:34:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/garry-plappert.aspx William Fallows

Congratulations to Hanna Bulawka who successfully defended her PhD thesis in October 2011.

2011-11-15T16:17:00Z 2011-11-15T16:16:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/hanna-bulawka.aspx William Fallows

Her paper was on 'The contribution of research on workplace discourse to the teaching of English for Occupational and Professional Purposes'.

2011-10-31T10:25:00Z 2011-11-07T13:07:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/koester-paper.aspx Angela Slater

Michael Toolan sees chapter included in book.

2011-10-31T10:25:00Z 2011-10-28T16:09:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/toolan-chapter.aspx William Fallows

On 12th October the Centre for Advanced Research in English (CARE) hosted a 'coffee morning' for all its CARE visiting scholars.

2011-10-31T10:24:00Z 2011-11-24T13:44:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/coffee-morning.aspx William Fallows

Her latest monograph, Corpus Approaches to Evaluation: phraseology and evaluative language was published in September 2011 by Routledge.

2011-10-31T10:24:00Z 2013-03-09T15:28:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/corpus-approaches.aspx William Fallows

Jeannette Littlemore and Almut Koester publish research article.

2011-10-13T14:10:00Z 2011-10-13T14:11:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/metaphor-comprehension.aspx William Fallows

CELS Teaching Fellow to deliver Opening Remarks.

2011-10-13T14:05:00Z 2012-10-25T17:38:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/chiba-japan.aspx William Fallows

Paul Thompson speaking in a roundtable discussion.

2011-08-11T16:12:00Z 2011-11-29T13:19:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2011/clavier-modena.aspx William Fallows

Nicholas Groom and Jeannette Littlemore publish a new guide for students.

2011-07-18T15:09:00Z 2013-03-09T15:29:00Z http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/cels2011/doing-applied-linguistics.aspx