SoLL students and staff explore Englishes in the world at York Festival of Ideas 2019
Held annually, York Festival of Ideas offers a range of events from inspiring talks and exhibitions to performances in York. Contributing to this year’s Festival of Ideas were a group of academic staff and students from the School of Languages and Linguistics. Titled ‘exploring Englishes in the world’ the aims of their series of talks and presentations were to showcase the vitality of Englishes around the world and to address and contest traditional notions around the ‘ownership’ of English.
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Student Involvement
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Niamh O’Shea (3rd year, BA Linguistics and TESOL)
‘Teachers’ attitudes towards ‘non-native’ varieties of English’ [poster presentation]
‘Students as Researchers’ scheme (supervised by Dr Indu Meddegama)
Niamh O’Shea’s Poster Presentation (PDF, 484 KB)
Brandon Woodcock (2nd year, BA Linguistics and TESOL)
‘Sounds of Global Englishes’ [Video presentation]
‘Students as Researchers’ scheme (supervised by Dr Indu Meddegama)
Event Photos
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Prof Chris Hall – Welcome note
![Indu stood at the front of lecture theater presenting to an audience and smiling](http://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/lang-ling/files/2019/06/untitled-64-684x1024.jpg)
Dr Chisato Danjo and Sean Foyle – Exploring Englishes in Japan
![Linda stood next to the projector screen addressing the audience](http://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/lang-ling/files/2019/06/untitled-158-1024x684.jpg)
![Sarah stood behind a computer next to presentation screen at the front of the room](http://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/lang-ling/files/2019/06/untitled-175-1024x662.jpg)
Buffet of Japanese, Caribbean and Indian food