External Activities

Cook:

  • Founding Editor, Writing Systems Research (OUP, 2008-); Editorial Board, Syntax (1998-).
  • Invited plenary presentations, EUROSLA (2001, 2006), SPEAQ ( Quebec, 2001), SLRF ( New York, 2005), and seven others.
  • Visiting Professor, University of Madison-Wisconsin (2004).
  • Panel Member for ESRC Studentships in Linguistics (2005/6).

 Firth:

  • Editorial Board, Journal of Pragmatics, Handbook of Business Discourse.
  • Invited plenary presentations, Conference on ‘Ethnographies of Diagnostic Work’ ( Lancaster, 2007); Conference on ‘Pragmatics and Language Learning’ ( Honolulu, 2007); Culture, Language, Interaction and Communication (CLIC) conference, University of California ( Los Angeles, 2006).

 Pienneman:

  • Editorial Board, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Second Language Research.
  • Invited keynote/plenary presentations, EUROCALL (Nijmegen, 2001), EUROSLA (Basel 2002, Newcastle 2007); Symposium on SLA and Processability (Sydney, 2003); International Symposium on Processability, SLA and Bilingualism (Sassari 2004, Melbourne 2005); ESRC seminar on Lexical organisation in bilinguals: models and measures of bilingual proficiency. (Bristol, 2006).
  • M ember of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst ( DAAD ) and the Deutsche Forschungsge meinschaft (DFG) (German Research Council).

 Seedhouse:

  • Invited keynote/plenary presentations, Workshop on Applied Conversation Analysis (Odense 2003), Applied Linguistics Association of Korea conference ( Seoul, 2006); invited presentations, Colloquium on CA-for-SLA ( Portland, 2004), Languages for Specific Purposes Conference ( Bergamo, 2005), ESRC Seminar Analysing Interactions in Childhood ( Sheffield, 2006).
  • Winner of the Modern Language Association of America Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize (2005).
  • Memb er UK New Route PhD Consortium Executive Committee .

 Sercombe:

  • Editor, The Linguistics Journal (2006- ).
  • Invited presentation, International Conference on Austronesian Endangered Language Documentation' (Taiwan 2007).
  • Translation and content validity consultant, BBC Tribe programme, 'The Penan, Hunters & Gatherers of Borneo’.
  • Visiting lecturer, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan (2005).

 W alsh:

  • Associate Editor, The Linguistics Journal; Editorial Board, Asian Journal of Linguistics.
  • Invited presentations, International Conference on Higher Education ( Athens, 2006); Second Language Learning in Foreign and Immersion Language Classrooms ( Cork, 2006).

 Young -Scholten:

  • Editorial Board, Second Language Research; International Review of Applied Linguistics.
  • Invited presentations, Linguistics, Language Acquisition and Literacy Workshop ( Tilburg, 2005); Phonologieerwerb im multilingualen Kontext, 24 Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft ( Mannheim, 2002 [with S. Sumdangdej]); Acquisition Perspectives on Interfaces Workshop ( Utrecht, 2001).

Myles:

  • President of the Association for French Language Studies (2003-07).
  • Vice-President of the European Second Language Association (Eurosla) (2007 - ).
  • Editor, Journal of French Language Studies (CUP) (2006 - ).
  • Editorial Board, Second Language Research (Sage) (2006 - ).
  • Member of the Linguistics Specialist group of the LTSN Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (2004 - ).
  • Member of the Linguistics Strategy Group (national body comprising executive officers of the main linguistics associations in the UK) (2004 - ).
  • Member of the QAA Linguistics Benchmarking group.