At 5:30 pm on June 23, 2021, Prof. Liddicoat, professor in Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, was invited by the School of Foreign Languages of Southeast University and the Asia-Pacific Language Policy Research Center to hold an online lecture on the theme of “Language practices as language policy at the micro-level in universities”.
Professor Liddicoat is currently professor in Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick; adjunct professor in Justice and Society, University of South Australia; executive editor of Current Issues in Language Planning; and also, president of Applied Linguistics Association of Australia. His research spans a number of areas of applied linguistics including language education, language policy and planning and discourse analyses.
In the lecture, Prof. Liddicoat introduced that contemporary thinking about language policy had come to identify a number of different ways that language policies existed within social groups: texts, discourses and practices. And he introduced a recent research which examined universities in the United Kingdom to investigate how practices can reveal underlying policies about languages that shaped how such universities engaged with the complexities of multilingualism. Finally, Professor Liddicoat answered the questions raised by the audience. The lecture lasted for an hour and a half. At the talk, Professor Liddicoat gave a clear and comprehensive explanation on language practices as language policies at the micro-level in universities, which inspired the audience a lot. (Text/Yawen Han)
