This is a special-interest event for language teachers and researchers interested in issues concerning script.
Venue: The Language Space, 1-4 Malet Place, UCL
Date: 21st November
Any attempt to promote the learning of Languages of the Wider World must include a discussion of the issues surrounding the teaching and learning of different scripts and alphabet systems. This special-interest event aims to provide a forum for the discussion of some of these issues including: strategies for the teaching and learning of new scripts; defining what we actually learn when we learn a new writing system; learners’ perspectives on the challenges of learning a new script; the technology available for supporting the teaching and learning of script and the processes and political implications of changing the script of a national language
There are limited places for this event so, if you would like to come, please book a place here.
Programme
10:30
Registration
10:45
Welcome
11:00
Benedetta Bassetti (Institute of Education, University of London)
'What do we learn when we learn a second language writing system?’
11.30
Xinsheng Zhang (SOAS, University of London)
‘Draw Chinese characters? – Perceptual change in learning and teaching Chinese characters’
12.00
LUNCH
13:00
Lucien Brown (SOAS) ‘Approaches to the teaching of ??’
14:00
Steve Cushion ‘A Technological Perspective on Script’
14:30
BREAK
15:00
Chris Dillon (UCL) – ‘Brushing my teeth and learning some Kanji’
15:30
Chris Moseley (UCL) ‘Adaptation of the Roman and Cyrillic alphabets to newly written languages’
16:00
Teresa Birks (CILT) ‘Rewriting the Script: renegotiating the 'appropriateness' of Rumi vs Jawi in the first Malay film Magazine’
