Languages Research Seminar

The third seminar in the language research series will be taking place on Monday 29th February in Forster 302 at 5.00pm. The talk will be given by a new member of TESOL staff Dr Michael Hepworth. The topic of his talk is 'Argumentation and citizenship in the adult TESOL classroom'. All welcome!

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