Evaluating Student Writing and Speaking: Can Linguistics Help?

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Date/Time:Wednesday, 14 Nov 2012 at 6:30 pm
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As a professor in Language Education at the University of British Columbia, Bernard Mohan worked extensively with immigrant learners in Vancouver's schools. He is a functional linguist well known for his pioneering work on language learning and content learning. Quentin Johnson Lecture in Linguistics

Bernard Mohan is currently an emeritus professor at UBC and a Research Fellow at King's College, London University. He took part in EUCIM-TE, an eight-nation research study in 2010-2011 that recommended changes in teacher education across the European Union to benefit immigrant language learners.