After the LASER launch event

The launch event took place as planned, so here are some follow-up items.

• Publicity:
  • A special issue of the journal Languages, Society, Policy dedicated to this event and containing short summaries of their talks by most of the presenters.
    • An issue of the journal Impact which co-publishes these articles.
  • A  brief report (1600 words) summarising the event, and an extended account of the discussion.
  • A press release produced before the event, but not published.
  • We were mentioned by Alex Bellos in the Guardian Online.
  • We inspired an excellent article in The Economist by Lane Greene (who attended the LASER launch). (To read it you have to register, but it’s free.)
  • Almost all the talks listed below have been turned into brief position papers and published  as a special issue in Language, Society and Policy.
• The talks. Here are the powerpoint shows from the talks:
  • Professor Bas Aarts: Linguistic analysis in schools: the Englicious approach.
  • Ian Bauckham: Intrinsic interest and explicit instruction: insights of LA in reforming MFL pedagogy in English schools.
  • Neil Sheldon:  From numbers to insight
    • (added later: the same ideas developed more fully in a lecture at the Alan Turing Institute.)
  • Professor Paul Glaister: From numbers to insight (mathematics)
  • Dr Michelle Sheehan:  Linguistics: bridging the content/skills divide in secondary Modern Foreign Languages.
    
  • Rachel Hawkes: Making (language learning make) sense. 
  • Deborah Pearson: The assessment journey for AQA GCSE English Language.