The next speaker in our Language and Linguistics Research Seminar series is our colleague Dr. Bill Guariento.
The talk’s title is ‘Supporting English Language Teaching students online in Gaza’
Bill will be telling us about his project supporting students in Gaza with online teaching.
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The next speaker in this semester’s linguistics research seminar series is Professor Louise Cummings who will be talking on the cognitive-linguistic effects of long COVID.
There’s more information below and information on all talks here:
Speaker: Professor Louise Cummings (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Time: 12:00-13:00
Date: Wednesday 22nd November
Mode of delivery: Online via Teams
Seminar title: Cognitive-linguistic difficulties in adults with Long COVID
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a large number of people who have not made a good recovery from their COVID infections. For these individuals, physical and cognitive symptoms can persist for months and even years after the initial illness. Cognitive-linguistic difficulties (so-called “brain fog”) are a prominent feature of the Long COVID syndrome, and are known to persist in sufferers long after physical symptoms have resolved. This talk examines the nature of these difficulties by examining language data from 92 adults with the Long COVID syndrome (Cummings, 2023). These adults reported significant problems with cognition and language following acute COVID illness, with many unable to return to work. This talk explores their self-reported cognitive-linguistic difficulties and relates them to problems with verbal recall, verbal fluency, and informativeness during discourse production.
Cummings, L. (ed.) (2023) COVID-19 and Speech-Language Pathology, New York: Routledge.
All welcome. For further information, please contact Dr Mimi Huang, Research Group Lead and Postgraduate Research Lead for Language and Linguistics: mimi.huang@northumbria.ac.uk
As part of a £100,000 British Council grant (Principal Investigator Bill Guariento), Northumbria University welcomed students and academics from the Islamic University of Gaza this week. After 2 years of online work, we now have face-to-face contact.
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We’re very sorry to have to announce that this event is now cancelled. This is due to a combination of industrial action and staff unavailability. We will be hosting other events next academic year, including an A Level Day in November. We look forward to seeing you there!
CANCELLED:
We are very happy to announce this year’s A Level (Year 12) English Language Day, which will take place at our City Campus on 5 July 2023.
The event is free and has limited spaces (we hope to accommodate all of you but bookings will have to be first come first served).
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The next seminar of the Northumbria Language and Linguistics Research Seminar Series will take place on Wednesday 26th April at 12:00 in Lipman 121.
The speaker is Professor Paul Simpson from the University of Liverpool and his talk will be on ‘Irony and its consequences in the public sphere‘ (there’s an abstract below)
The seminar will be delivered in a hybrid format so join us in person or online (more info on each below).
All welcome!
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