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Language learners in Anglophone contexts

Venue: University of Oxford
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Event Date: 30/09/2018 - 01/10/2018

Anglophone contexts, such as the UK and US, provide particular challenges for language learning. The aim of this two-day workshop is to explore these challenges.

Topics to be discussed during the workshop will include:

  • Sustaining linguistic diversity in Anglophone contexts
  • Language learners: supply and demand in the US
  • Motivation through creativity in language learning
  • Careers in languages
  • Cognitive benefits of language learning
  • Motivating learners in the UK – views from the classroom
  • How the benefits of language learning can enrich the learning experience

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