SAGE Language & Linguistics: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to the official free Podcast site from SAGE, with selected new podcasts that will span a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine. Our Podcasts are designed to act as teaching tools, providing further insight into our content through editor and author commentaries and interviews with special guests. SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets with principal offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, and Singapore.
Sarah Jilani presents the doctoral research ‘Gender and the Politics of War Historiography in ‘Destination Biafra’ which explores how the Nigerian writer’s novel challenges war historiography through a ‘female perspective’ that scholarship has sometimes overlooked.
Glenn Fulcher presents his last podcast in which he discusses the history of the podcast as well as the history of Language Testingin his 20 years of serving the journal. Posted October 2021
Yuanhang Liu presents her article ‘The Australian Reifungsroman: Reading women’s ageing in Kate Grenville’s The Idea of Perfection and Dorothy Hewett’s Neap Tide. Posted September 2021.
Kavithaa Rajamony presents her article Between Madras and Chennai: Narratives of Belonging in a Post-colonial City. Posted February 2021.
Höne, Christin and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay discuss Christin’s article Jagadish Chandra Bose and the anticolonial politics of science fiction.
Rūta Šlapkauskaitė and Andrius Ledas discuss Rūta’s article Precariousness, kinship, and care: Becoming human in Claire Cameron’s The Last Neanderthal.**Posted December 2020.
Glenn Fulcher discusses the Special Issue on Repeated Test-Taking and Longitudinal Test Score Analysis with guest editor Anthony Green.
Animals, Others, and Postcolonial Ecomasculinities: Nadeem Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden
JCL - Rethinking Powers of Political: The National Emergency and the J.P. Movement in Rahi Masoom Raza’s Katra Bi Arzoo
Glenn Fulcher interviews Bart Deygers to discuss language assessment literacy in university admission policies
Glenn Fulcher and Judit Kormos explore the field of test accommodations. Read the associated article here. Posted March 2019.
JCL – “Fractured territories: Deterritorializing the contemporary Pakistani novel in English”: Paul Veyret and Trevor Harris discuss Veyret’s recent article on contemporary Pakistani fiction in English. Posted February 2019.
JCL – “An Act of Geographical Violence: Crime, Literature, and the Colonial Compulsion”: Molly Slavin and Benjamin Bergholtz discuss Slavin’s new article on imperialism as an act of geographical violence. Posted February 2019.
JCL – “Reading the whiteness of British Asian literature": Kavita Bhanot discusses her recent article
Language Testing Bytes Podcast Number 27: Glenn Fulcher and Stefanie Wind discuss the evaluation of rating quality.
Language Testing Bytes Podcast Number 26: Professor Glenn Fulcher and Professor Sara Cushing discuss corpus linguistics and language testing
Dr Kenneth Usongo discusses his new research on the significance of magical realism in the novels of Elechi Amadi
Hyacinth Simpson, Kris Singh and Asha Varadharajan discuss Samuel Selvon’s short story “Turning Christian”.
Dr Lisa Lau and Dr Ana Cristina Mendes discuss their new research on “Post-9/11 re-orientalism: Confrontation and conciliation in Mohsin Hamid’s and Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist.”
Associate Professor Anne Collett and Dr Michael Griffiths discuss Dr Griffiths’ new research on ‘“The Fortunate Traveller” in Transit: On a Walcott Manuscript and the Vicissitudes of North and South.’
Professor Glenn Fulcher and Dr Catherine Elder discuss research on LSP Testing for Health Professionals. Posted March 2016
Glenn Fulcher and Hyejeong Kim discuss assessing aviation English at the University of Leicester
Christina Samuelsson and Charlotta Plejert discuss their article on the use of Conversation Analysis and retrospection in intervention for children with language impairment. Posted March 2015
In this podcast Martin East describes an assessment reform project in New Zealand. Posted January 2014
Sarah Maso and Elise Baker discuss their article about how children with phonological impairment respond to requests for clarification containing polysyllables. Posted November 2014
Fred Davidson and Cary Lin of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign discuss the role of statistics. Posted October 2014
Silke Fricke interviews Blanca Schaefer and Indra Sinka about their article on the development of the New Reynell Developmental Language Scales and of a Multilingual Toolkit for use with children from linguistic and cultural backgrounds other than English, published in Volume 30 Issue 1 of Child Language Teaching and Therapy. Posted July 2014.
Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder from the University of Amsterdam discuss rater variability in the assessment of speaking and writing in a second language.
In this podcast Ryo Nitta and Fumiyo Nakatsuhara discuss whether providing pre-task planning time impacts upon the scores and talk of test takers in a paired-format speaking test. Posted May 2014.
In this podcast Ryo Nitta and Fumiyo Nakatsuhara discuss whether providing pre-task planning time impacts upon the scores and talk of test takers in a paired-format speaking test. Posted May 2014.
Jodi Tommerdahl and Cynthia Kilpatrick discuss their paper on the reliability of morphological analyses in language samples.
James Law interviews Nick Riches about his research on treating the passive in children with specific language impairments.
Stephen Bax talks about his paper on eye-tracking and what it can tell us about how successful readers go about processing items and texts in reading tests.
Ofra Inbar, guest editor, talks about the special issue and the growing importance of assessment literacy in language testing.
Nicola Botting discusses the dynamic assessment of preschoolers proficiency in learning English (DAPPLE) with Natalie Hasson and Bernard Camilleri.
Ana Pellicer-Sanchez and Norbert Schmitt talk about the usefulness of yes-no vocabulary tests and the problems language testers face with scoring them.
Mary Claesen and Suze Leitão discuss their article on the performance of children with specific language impairments on two measures of phonological representations.
Kathryn Hill talks about classroom based assessment and her new framework for describing how teachers use assessment as a classroom tool.
Luke Harding discusses why many language test providers only use standard accents on tests of listening.
Pam Baylis and Maggie Snowling evaluate a phonological reading programme for children with Downs syndrome.
Tan Jin and Barley Mak discuss approaches to scoring performance tests based on fuzzy logic.
Joy Stackhouse and Jannet Wright discuss their special issue on evaluating intervention and service provision in schools for children with speech, language and communication needs.
Craig Deville and Micheline Chaloub-Deville discuss standards based testing in the United States.