Monday, June 24, 2013

Public service announcements

Colleagues at two universities have asked this blog to publicise a couple of things that might either be of interest to you, or that they need help with.

The first is a job opportunity at UCL, which involves working on the new Primary English part of the Englicious project. You can find more info on it here.

The second is from Sue Fox and Jenny Cheshire at QMUL. They would like feedback from students and teachers who have used their English Language Teaching Resources and Linguistics Research Digest and just need a few quick responses to this survey.

Saturday, June 01, 2013

ENGA3 June 2013 collected revision tips

With the exam coming up on Monday, I've collected together a few of the revision tips from 2012, 2011 and 2010 here. Hopefully, they'll help you target your last day or two of revision:

Tips from 2011
Revision tips from 2012 (BTW World Englishes has cropped up now as a discourses question in Jan 2013)
General ENGA3 exam advice from 2012

I'll add a few more bits and pieces on Sunday, if I get a chance.

Black British English vs MLE

The latest episode of Lexis is out and it features an interview with Ife Thompson about lots of issues connected to Black British English, i...