2022-06

Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

The workshop will cover empirical and theoretical approaches in the study of low- resource languages. It offers a unique opportunity to learn various perspectives regarding passive and relative clause structures. Moreover, the relative strengths and weaknesses of these approaches will be discussed in open discussion sessions. In addition, this year we are offering a lecture series on open access publications, and we have two guests from Glossa and Language Science Press. Various topics related to the publication of articles and books will be discussed during these sessions. We will also provide presentations on PhD admission formalities alongside workshops on different grant possibilities for MA and PhD students as well as postdocs. The workshop on empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of low-resource languages introducing a range of techniques for data collection, their weaknesses and strengths. This may be of interest to researchers from the fields of linguistic typology, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and empirical linguistics as well as to researchers working on applied linguistics. During the workshop, participants with an interest in different linguistic approaches will be able to discuss their ideas and methodology with members of the teaching team. The first day will provide a general introduction to passive and relative clause structures. From day two, we will offer a range of empirical, typological, and experimental methods in analyzing data. Participants of the workshop will be doing exercises on some of the languages to get practical experience at working with their object languages. All participants are invited to join a series of plenary research talks on the different topics and also to participate in the general question and answer sessions. The workshop will be held as a hybrid event, i.e. an online-offline event. In the event of any COVID restrictions, the summer school participants will be notified in advance and the event will become fully online.

2021-03

University of Zakho

English Language Department in collaboration with Language Center is organizing a workshop for all the teachers involved in teaching Academic English as a unified non-departmental curriculum in the departments of University of Zakho. The aim of the workshop is to give an introduction to the process of teaching the course, the handbook, the assessment strategies and explain the nature of the recorded and in class lectures which will be used in the course. Finally, the suggestions and questions of the teachers will be discussed.

2014-11

University of Zakho

Teaching and learning approaches workshop