A brief introduction to the day of Tennyson Poetry.

Collection: Reading Tennyson: A Celebration of the Bicentenary of the Birth of Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Institution: Faculty of English

Created: Thu 19 Nov 2009

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman turned a Yorkshire clergyman into a literary celebrity. Three hundred years after his birth on 24 November 1713, Laurence...

Collection: Research Horizons

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Fri 21 Mar 2014

This paper investigates the relationship of authors and scribes in medieval Britain. It is shown that in many (late) medieval texts were in fact not autographed, but dictated in...

Collection: Scribes as Agents of Language Change

Institution: Cambridge University Library

Created: Thu 1 Mar 2012

Andrew Caines, Computer Laboratory & ALTA Institute, presents his poster on ‘Listening practice for learners of English: towards an intelligent tutoring system’.
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Collection: Cambridge Language Sciences

Institution: Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Created: Tue 14 Dec 2021

Interview with Abigail Brundin, Professor of Italian in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, on her impact projects with the National Trust and English...

Collection: AHIF Impact Films 2020

Institution: Research Office

Created: Wed 23 Sep 2020

The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) is the largest citizen led; household based learning accountability initiative that aims to fill a gap in learning outcomes and...

Collection: Centre for Commonwealth Education: Seminars

Institution: Faculty of Education

Created: Thu 19 Jun 2014

All teachers and teaching assistants at Biddenham elected to be a member of an enquiry group which addresses different strands of the School Improvement Plan. The electronic...

Collection: SUPER

Institution: Faculty of Education

Created: Thu 17 Mar 2016

Renowned children’s author Meg Rosoff delivered the eighth annual Philippa Pearce Lecture at Homerton College. The Lecture series is convened in memory of Philippa Pearce, winner...

Collection: The Philippa Pearce Memorial Lecture

Institution: Homerton College

Created: Fri 16 Oct 2015

Dr Roderick Munday, Fellow and Director of Studies in Law of Peterhouse, talks about the 2012 English Legal Methods Summer School which takes place in Cambridge between 9 July and...

Collection: Professional Studies

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Tue 17 Apr 2012

A student-directed video created for the English Faculty Library.

Collection: English Faculty Library

Institution: Faculty of English

Created: Thu 15 Oct 2009

This paper investigates changing gender assignment and exponence at the interface of Old and Middle English.

Collection: Scribes as Agents of Language Change

Institution: Cambridge University Library

Created: Wed 9 Nov 2011

In this clip a middle school English teacher uses an evocative crime scene picture to assess students’ understanding of the investigation; students circle features of the scene...

Collection: Supporting classroom dialogue using interactive whiteboard technology: professional development resources

Institution: Faculty of Education

Created: Fri 26 Jul 2013

I shall focus most of the discussion on the standard English used in the south east of England to describe very briefly some changes in the structures and use of English over the...

Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium

Institution: Clare Hall

Created: Wed 25 Feb 2015

In a series of Riddles written in about the year 1000, animals, plants, and even ore from the earth complain about being torn from their homes and deprived of life so as to become...

Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium

Institution: Clare Hall

Created: Wed 3 Jun 2015

On the Leiden research project “Bridging the Unbridgeable: Linguists, Prescriptivists and the General Public”, a study on attitudes to English usage.

Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium

Institution: Clare Hall

Created: Thu 24 Oct 2013

This clip shows a primary teacher presenting a modelled example of a task and then asking the students to discuss how the example met a list of success criteria. While the...

Collection: CEDiR group examples of dialogue in diverse educational contexts

Institution: Faculty of Education

Created: Fri 8 May 2020

James English (University of Pennsylvania): Revisiting the "Great Divide”: The Past, the Future, and the Contemporary Novel

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Collection: CRASSH

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Thu 21 Apr 2016

This clip illustrates a matching activity where explanations are dragged to link with appropriate vocabulary terms in a middle school English lesson.

Collection: Supporting classroom dialogue using interactive whiteboard technology: professional development resources

Institution: Faculty of Education

Created: Fri 26 Jul 2013

The standardisation of English is often taken to begin in the fifteenth century. Scholars may consider written English to be largely ‘standardised’ by 1500; at the same time,...

Collection: Scribes as Agents of Language Change

Institution: Cambridge University Library

Created: Wed 29 Feb 2012

The story of King Midas and his donkey ears: a retelling of Ovid's Metamorphoses

Collection: Classics in the English Curriculum: Metamorphoses

Institution: Faculty of Education

Created: Mon 6 Feb 2012