Jess Norledge

Only a few places left for this. Come along and have a mince pie* with us?

(*mince pies may or may not be served on this day)

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: New Approaches to Teaching A Level Lang/Lit

Discover new approaches to teaching A Level English Language and Literature on this in-person course with guest presenters Peter Stockwell and Jessica Norledge.

Book by: 8am on 11th December
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@stockwell.bsky.social, @englangblog.bsky.social and I will be presenting all new ideas and activities for approaching fictional characters, narrative, and poetic writing, with examples and activities tailored to popular A-level text choices from across the A-level boards. Register today!

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: New Approaches to Teaching A Level Lang/Lit (15.12.2025 Autumn 2025) New approaches to teaching A Level English Language & Literature with guest presenters Peter Stockwell & Jessica Norledge.

Sad to be missing out? Why not join us in December for ‘New Approaches to Teaching A level Lang/Lit’? Bookings now open!

www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/2f9b...

Absolutely delighted to be back at the @engmediacentre.bsky.social for a fun-filled day of Literary Linguistics! Today we’re joined by teachers across the country for our ‘Starting to Teach A level LangLit’ course. Such fun!

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: New Approaches to Teaching A Level Lang/Lit (15.12.2025 Autumn 2025) New approaches to teaching A Level English Language & Literature with guest presenters Peter Stockwell & Jessica Norledge.

And we are continuing our successful (and fun) Lang Lit collaboration with University of Nottingham stylistics gurus @stockwell.bsky.social and @jessnorledge.bsky.social with this course in December and a re-run of our Starting to Teach course in November.
www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/2f9b...

Did you know that when you purchase any of these key EMC anthologies, you will also be able to access a pack of free downloadable resources specific to each one? Find out more: buff.ly/bqbiZWG

🎉✨ NEW ISSUE OUT!! 🎉✨

☀️ Fafnir's issue 1/2025 welcomes midsummer with a blazing selection of cutting-edge speculative fiction research, essays, book reviews, and a prefatory by Marek Oziewicz.

Check out the full issue for free here!: fafnir.journal.fi

Happy reading!

EMC CPD Online: Starting to Teach A Level English Language

"Gave me confidence for teaching A Level Language for the first time and lots of ideas for lessons and resources."

Book by: 8am on 5th September
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The Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit is here at @natefeed.bsky.social. Swing by our stall in the atrium to find out more (and snag a fancy highlighter!)

Ready to go here at @natefeed.bsky.social with the Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: New Approaches to Teaching A Level Lang/Lit (15.12.2025 Autumn 2025) New approaches to teaching A Level English Language & Literature with guest presenters Peter Stockwell & Jessica Norledge.

Looking to continue your stylistics adventure? Join me and @stockwell.bsky.social at the EMC in December for a brand new CPD LangLit course.

New Approaches to Teaching A-level Lang/Lit | 15/12/25

www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/2f9b...

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Starting to Teach A Level Language and Literature (4.11.2025, Autumn 2025) Cross-spec course introducing Lang &amp;Lit AL, with classroom resources.&nbsp;<em>NB:</em>&nbsp;<em>This is a repeat course.</em>

Are you dreaming of those cooler autumn/winter days? Why not plan ahead and book some LangLit CPD?

Starting to teach A-Level Language and Literature | 04/11/25

(N.B. This is a repeat course. If you’re looking for something new, check out the next post!)

www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/8a8f...

EMC Associate Teacher Posts 2025-26 Opportunity to become an EMC Associate Teacher.

A big thank you to everyone who has applied for 25/26 EMC Associate Teacher posts. As ever we're hugely impressed by the quality of teaching expertise out there + are only sorry we can't work with all of you. Deadline is 9am tomorrow morning www.englishandmedia.co.uk/projects/emc...

Busy proofing our 25/26 catalogue, which details everything we do at EMC. Very proud that our small team has so much reach - and grateful to all the teachers who put their trust in our work!

LATEST emagazine

A taster of the literary + linguistic treats inside the April 2025 edition.

Resubscriptions for 25/26 now available www.englishandmedia.co.uk/emc-magazine...

TFW it's open mic night down at the local but you didn't bring the casio with you

Prof Louise Mullany giving a lecture

We're now onto Louise Mullany who has the best title today: "Grow a pair! (Im)politeness, banter and insults in everyday talk".

A display showing text from NK Jemisin's Emergency Skin.

We've been given a secret mission. I'm not sure if I should be sharing this with you. I'm typing this looking over my shoulder for robot enforcers.

Keeping the lang/lit flame alive - well done to organisers @stockwell.bsky.social @jessnorledge.bsky.social @englangblog.bsky.social

Today is our conference for students of English Lang/Lit at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social

To the StylisticsMobile!

Our oracy conference on Friday was a huge success. If you'd like to experience an EMC teacher conference as part of your CPD this year, then we're running one about inclusion + English in June englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/4536...

Last chance to book your A-level English students in for our Lang/Lit conference on 1st April here in Nottingham. This is the venue

englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/...

Happy #WorldBookDay (at least in the UK!)

If you want to read some of the classics with the help of computer-assisted methods give the #CLiC app a whirl!

clic.bham.ac.uk

#Digitalhumanities

A great conference that prioritises the interplay of language and literature rather than treating them as separate subjects. If I were 16 again, I think this is the AL I would opt for!

Calling all schools within reach of Nottingham

Fab line-up for conference aimed at students studying combined Lang + Lit A Level, including acclaimed novelist @jonmcgregor.bsky.social

@englangblog.bsky.social @stockwell.bsky.social @jessnorledge.bsky.social

englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/...

In association with @engmediacentre.bsky.social
- come to Nottingham on April Fool’s Day (yes, really) for the UK’s first ever student conference for A-level Lang/Lit. Cheap as chips! And a great line up. Book here:

www.englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/...

Initial symposium to book submission: 10 months. One reviewer said the timescale was ‘wild’ and they were not wrong! Thanks to our brilliant contributors. Out with @edinburghup.bsky.social later in the year

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Funded PhD opportunity at Lancaster:

'The sharing of personal lived experience by peer support workers working in mental health services in NHS, social care and third sector organisations.'

Open to applicants with a background in Linguistics as well as Psychology
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Happy to share my review of 'Vocabulary, Corpus and Language Teaching', just out in ELT Journal.

#artificialintelligence #ChatGPT #elt

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