Keynote Speakers from the AULC Conference The Centre for Open Learning hosted the 24th annual conference of the Association of University Language Communities in the UK and Ireland, with the School of Literatures Languages and Cultures and Moray House School of Education Sport, welcoming to Edinburgh 200 language educators from languages departments and language centres in the UK and Ireland. We are delighted to share some videos of the AULC Keynote Speakers: Alison Hendry, British Sign Language at the University of Edinburgh and beyone Watch Now Lauren Hall-Lew - Social indexicality and its potential influence on language learning Watch Now Alison Phipps - Dr Joy Northcott Memorial Lecture - Decolonising Hospitality through Languages: Pain, Joy, Gist Watch Now The lecture, Decolonising Hospitality through Languages: Pain, Joy, Gist, will be given by one of the AULC Conference keynote speakers, Professor Alison Phipps from the University of Glasgow. This lecture, and its associated bursary for displaced language teachers, language teacher educators or language teaching students, was set up in memory of a much-missed colleague, Dr. Joy Northcott, who worked at the University of Edinburgh for over 20 years until her untimely death in 2017. Joy was passionate about languages: learning them herself as a gifted linguist; teaching English as an experienced and popular practitioner; and committed to the professional development of other language teachers as a knowledgeable and expert teacher educator. The lecture and the bursary is an acknowledgement of her contribution to the field of language teacher education and the esteem in which she is held by colleagues. Full details and conference programme available to view here This article was published on 2024-10-14
