With Charlotte Brewer and Jonnie Robinson I’m one of the co-organisers of the English Grammar Day 2023 on 23 June 2023 at University College London. Here’s the programme:
| 09:30-09:50 | Registration | |
| 09:50-10:00 | Welcome & Introduction | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Sylvia Shaw, Lost in Transcription? The representation of parliamentary speech in writing | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Julia Snell, Does correcting children’s spoken grammar improve their writing? | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Coffee/tea* | |
| 11:45-12:15 | Steven Dryden, They, Them, We, Us | |
| 12:15-12:45 | Guyanne Wilson, Caribbean Englishes in the Standard English debate | |
| 12:45-14:00 | Lunch break* | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Joanna Gavins, Using linguistics to help tackle plastics pollution | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Susie Dent, Word imperfect | |
| 15:00-15:45 | Coffee/tea* | |
| 15:45-17:00 | ‘Any Questions’-style panel discussion, chaired by John Mullan, UCL Submit your questions during the first coffee break! |
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| 17:00 | Close |
Do join us and bring your (A-level) students.
For more information, speaker information, abstracts, and a link to the booking site, click here.
