CLIE meetings

CLIE members meet three times a year. The first two meetings of the academic year (October and February) are held online, but the one in June is held face to face in London, as specified by email, and includes an invited speaker.

Meetings in 2022-23

• June 2023: Meeting 134. minutes | presentation: Phil Durrant on Corpus insights into children’s writing development
• March 2023: Meeting 133. minutes
• October 2022: Meeting 132. minutes 

Meetings in 2021-22

• June 2022: Meeting 131. minutes | presentation: WoLLoW
• February 2022: Meeting 130. minutes
• October 2021: Meeting 129. minutes

Meetings in 2020-21

• June 2021: Meeting 128. minutes
• February 2021: Meeting 127. minutes
• October 2020: Meeting 126. minutes

Meetings in 2019-20

• May 2020: Meeting 125. minutes
• February 2020: Meeting 124. minutes
• November 2019: Meeting 123. minutes

Meetings in 2018-19

• May 2019: Meeting 122. minutes
• February 2019: Meeting 121. minutes
• November 2018: Meeting 120. minutes 

Meetings in 2017-18

• May 2018: Meeting 119. minutes
• February 2018: Meeting 118. minutes
• November 2017: Meeting 117. minutes 
  • Presentation by Neil Sheldon about UKLO
  • Presentation by Debra Myhill: Grammar as Choice:Re-thinking Grammar as a tool for learning
     

Meetings in 2016-17

• May 2017: Meeting 116. An informal record |  Presentations on grammar teaching by four school teachers
• February 2017: Meeting 115. minutes
• November 2016: Meeting 114. minutes

Meetings in 2015-16

• May 2016: Meeting 113.  minutes
• February 2016: Meeting 112. minutes
• November 2015: Meeting 111. minutes

Meetings in 2014-15

• May 2015: Meeting 110. minutes
• Feb 2015: Meeting 109. minutes
• Nov 2014: Meeting 108. minutes
  • Talk by Peter Downes

Meetings in 2013-14

• May 2014: Meeting 107.  minutes
• Feb 2014: Meeting 106. minutes
• Nov 2013: Meeting 105. minutes

Meetings in 2012-13

• May 2013: Meeting 104. minutes (draft)
• Feb 2012: Meeting 103. minutes
• November 2012: Meeting 102. minutes

Meetings in 2011-12

• May 2012: Meeting 101. minutes
• February 2012: Meeting 100: Celebration meeting
  • clie 100 minutes
  • clie 100 discussion
  • clie past, by Dick
• November 2011: Minutes 99

Meetings in 2010-11

• Friday May 20 2011: Minutes 98
• Friday February 11 2011: Minutes 97
• Friday November 5 2010: Minutes 96
  • Presentation by Angela Gayton (Edinburgh University) on Language Ambassadors

Meetings in 2009-10

• Friday 21 May 2010: Minutes 95, Members reports
• Friday 19 February 2010: Minutes 94, Members reports
• Friday 13 November 2009: Minutes 93, Members reports

Meetings in 2008-9

• Weds 20 May 2009: Minutes 92 and Members reports
• Weds 18th February 2009: Minutes 91
  • Public talk (4.0-5.20, room 642) by Debbie Cameron: Mars and Venus in the language classroom? Language, education and male-female differences. abstract
• Weds 12 November 2008: Minutes 90
  • Public talk by Ben Rampton: Contemporary classroom cultures: change in the communicative order at school?

Meetings in 2007/8

• Weds 21 May 2008: Minutes 89
• Weds 13 February 2008: Minutes 88
  • Public talk by Adrian Beard: As Simple as ABC?: Issues of Transition for English Language A Level Students going on to study English Language/ Linguistics in Higher Education. THE SIXTH FORM PERSPECTIVE. (slideshow)
• Weds 7 November 2007: Minutes 87
  • Public talk (4-5.20, room 731) by Jan Blommaert: On being declared illiterate. (abstract)

Meetings in 2006/7

• Weds 23 May 2007: Minutes 86
• Weds 14 Feb 2007:  Minutes 85
  • Public talk by Gary Quinn and Ruth Swanwick, Sign Language and Deaf Education: A historical perspective and current issues (slideshow)
• Weds 1 Nov 2006: Minutes 84
  • Public talk by Matthew Saxton: Intervention for children with language delay: Insights from typical language acquisition. (abstract) (slideshow)

Meetings in 2005/6

• Weds 24 May 2006: Minutes 83
• Weds 15 Feb 2006: Minutes 82
  • Public talk by Debbie Myhill: Linguistic Development in Writing 4.00-5.20 , Room 691 (abstract) (slideshow)
• Weds 2 Nov 2005: Minutes 81
  • Public presentation by Lynne Cameron on “Writing in English as an additional language in UK schools: A summary of two research projects. ” (slideshow) (abstract)

Meetings in 2004/5

• Wednesday 25 May 2005: Minutes 80
• Wednesday 16 February 2005: Minutes 79
  • CILT and its work –  David Newton (CILT) – slideshow
  • with a talk by Liz Whittome (QCA English team) on the reforms at 14-19.
• Wednesday 3 November 2004: Minutes 78
  • Language Learning – a new paradigm. A personal view –  Lid King, National Director for Languages – slideshow

Meetings in 2003/4

• Wednesday 9 June 2004: Minutes 77
• Wednesday 18 February 2004: Minutes 76
  • Developments in approaches to grammar in the KS3 National Strategy –  Alan Howe – slideshow
• Wednesday 5 November 2003: Minutes 75
  • The KS3 MFL Strategy: Word, Sentence and Text –  Prof Ros Mitchell – slideshow

Meetings in 2002/3

• Wednesday 11 June 2003: Minutes 74
  • Teaching grammar – a discussion based on a discussion-paper by Ros Fisher and Dick Hudson – text
• Wednesday 19 February 2003: Minutes 73
  • “The languages strategy” – a presentation by Terry Lamb on the Government’s official strategy on Modern Foreign Languages – slideshow
  • open meeting: BSL and education – a talk by Prof Bencie Woll (City University) – slideshow
• Wednesday 6 November 2002: Minutes 72

Meetings in 2001/02

• Wednesday, 19 June 2002: Minutes 71
  • One of the main discussion items was the Government’s Green Paper on education, to which some of the constituent associations have submitted comments:
    • lagb (also separate comments on the associated paper about language learning)
    • Association for Language Learning
    • NO OPEN SESSION.
• Wednesday, 20 February 2002: Minutes 70
  • OPEN SESSION, 4-5 p.m.: Dr Jim Anderson (Goldsmiths College): ‘Community languages: Towards an agenda for inclusion’. (slideshow)
• Thursday, 8 November 2001: Minutes 69
  • OPEN SESSION, 4-5 p.m.: Prof. Ron Carter (University of Nottingham): ‘Grammar for speaking’ project developed at QCA (Qualifications and Curriculum Authority).

Meetings in 2000/01

• Wednesday, 20 June 2001: Draft Minutes 68 (excerpt)
• OPEN SESSION: ’12 hours of Knowledge about Language on initial teacher training courses’.
• Speakers: Dr Alison Sealey (School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at the University of Reading,
  formerly Institute of Education at the University of Warwick)
  Prof. Henrietta Dombey (School of Education, University of Brighton)
• session summary
• Wednesday, 21 February 2001: Draft Minutes 67
• Thursday, 2 November 2000

For further information about CLIE meetings please contact the Secretary.