With Charlotte Brewer and Jonnie Robinson I’m one of the co-organisers of the English Grammar Day 2015 on 29 June 2015 at the British Library in London. Here’s the programme:
09:30 -10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and Introduction
10:15 – 10:45 Jenny Cheshire, Queen Mary, University of London: London teenagers’ grammar
10:45 – 11:15 Jonnie Robinson, British Library: I’m gonna like go British Library innit: celebrating vernacular English
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee
11:45 – 12:15 Dan Clayton, Colchester VI Form College, But what does it mean? Making meanings from grammar
12:15 – 12:45 Amanda Redfearn, Holland Park School: Literacy and Language teaching at the heart of school improvement
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:30 Charlotte Brewer, Hertford College, University of Oxford: Monarchs and minnows vs. broadband and bungee jumping: what is the job of a children’s dictionary?
14:30 – 15:00 Harry Ritchie, author English for the Natives: You are a grammatical genius
15:00 – 15:30 Tea
15:30 – 16.45 Any Questions-style panel discussion. Chair: John Mullan, UCL
16:45 Closing remarks
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