We are delighted that Warwick Esports and its Head Coach, Jack Fenton (an Applied Linguistics alumnus in BA Language, Culture and Communication, 2020) are the first UK finalists amongst an otherwise all-American shortlist at this year's Esports Awards! Read more here.

On Monday 11th July students from the University of Warwick pitted their wits against a team of Warwick academics on BBC's programme ‘The 3rd Degree’ including one of our undergraduate students Mia Harris up against Dr Matthew Voice.

Listen again on: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00193ts

Congratulations to Elyanora Menglieva (MA TESOL, 2019), an advocate for teaching and children’s literacy, who was a 2022 Uzbekistan national finalist in the British Council Study UK Alumni Awards (Social Action category) and was awarded ‘Ambassador’s Choice’.

More information can be found here: https://warwick.ac.uk/alumni/news-events/news/british_council_study/

We are excited to be hosting the UK Linguistics Olympiad (UKLO) training camp 2022 over this weekend.

UKLO is a competition for students who are still at school (or equivalent college) to their knowledge to solve linguistic data problems. We are delighted to be able to support UKLO as the ethos of the competition is directly aligned with our own teaching approaches exploring the relationship between linguistics and the world around us.

We hope schools will continue to participate and support this fantastic enterprise!

More information about The UK Linguistics Olympiad can be found here https://www.uklo.org/

The British Council celebrated the official launch of the project ‘Supporting Sustainable English Teacher Continuous Professional Development in Yunnan Province’ on Thursday 14 April. The project is funded by the British Council as a collaboration between the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick and three Chinese partners – Dali University, Kunming University of Science and Technology and Yunnan Normal University.

Dr Christopher Strelluf was interviewed on the Eddie Nestor Show on BBC Radio London about language change and language ideologies on 2 March 2022. His interview begins at 1 hour 18 minutes in: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0blykkm 

He also presented as one of three language experts along with Susan Fox and Johanna Gerwin as part of Grow Social Capital's event, "Speak Cockney Day: Can Cockney be saved?," on 3 March 2022.