This page was originally created by the local organising committee of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) for attendees at the annual conference which we hosted online in September 2021 (postponed from 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic).
The conference website is here:
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2021/09/baal-2020/
To make up for us not being together in person, we shared these links and some information about us and our local environment.
Newcastle is a wonderful city to live in, to visit, to work and to study in. It’s also surrounded by beautiful and varied countryside, both along the coast and inland. You can find out a bit more about the area here:
https://newcastlegateshead.com/explore/northumberland
One of our English students discusses some local attractions in the first of a series of ‘Toon Tips’ on our Northumbria Englishes page:
https://northumbriaenglish.org/category/newcastle/things-to-do/
If you feel like it, you can also take a walking tour through the city on youtube:
There are quite a few of these. Here’s a shorter one:
You can see our staff profiles here:
and find out more about our research here:
Here are pages for our MA, BA and foundation year programmes:
MA Applied Linguistics for TESOL (with a pathway to MA TESOL for students without much teaching experience and MA Applied Linguistics for TESOL for more experienced teachers):
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-northumbria/courses/applied-linguistics-for-tesol-dtfalt6/
MA English Language and Linguistics:
BA English Language:
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-northumbria/courses/ba-hons-english-language-uuslan1/
BA English Language and Literature:
Humanities Foundation Year:
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-northumbria/courses/humanities-foundation-year-uusfyh1/
If you’d like to ask about anything we do, please contact Billy Clark
We hope to see some of you in person at Northumbria some time in the not too distant future!
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