Peter Wayne Moe is an Associate Professor of English and Writing at Seattle Pacific University and author of the book Touching This Leviathan, a book about whales (and language, and writing, and much more)*. In this interview, we discuss Peter'

Language U Season 2: Coming in 2022!

Dec 14th, 2021 2m 57s

Language U is rebooting in 2022! Contact me at the email address here if you'd like to be a guest on an upcoming episode! https://www.sfu.ca/education/faculty-profiles/jhenghartse.html

S1E4 Credit ESL with Julia Williams

Dec 13th, 2021 31m 16s

Language U talks to Julia Williams, Director of English Language Studies and Coordinator of Applied Language Studies at the University of Waterloo, about the nuts and bolts of creating for-credit English- language courses and programs at the un

S1E3 Creativity and Academic Writing with Erika Thorkelson

Dec 13th, 2021 28m 50s

Language U talks to Erika Thorkleson, a freelance writer and writing tutor and instructor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, about the connections between creative and academic writing and her work teaching writing at a uniq

S1E2 Conceding Composition with Ryan Skinnell

Dec 13th, 2021 25m 45s

Language U talks to Ryan Skinnell, professor at San Jose State University and author of Conceding Composition: A Crooked History of Composition’s Institutional Fortunes. We learn about his research on the history of a composition program at Ari

S1E1 Academic Editing with Roma Ilnyckyj

Dec 12th, 2021 29m 34s

Language U talks to Roma Ilnyckyj, an editor at the science communications company Talk Science to Me, about her work as an editor of scientific and other academic language, the ethics of editing student work and the complicated relationship be

Credit ESL with Julia Williams

Jan 10th, 2018

Creativity and Academic Writing with Erika Thorkelson

Jun 2nd, 2017

Conceding Composition with Ryan Skinnell

Apr 4th, 2017

Academic Editing with Roma Ilnyckyj

Dec 19th, 2016

Academic Writing in Canada with Dr. Anthony Paré

Sep 26th, 2016

We talk to Dr. Anthony Paré about how academic writing is taught at universities in Canada, how that differs from the way it is done in the United States, and why the belief that the writing centre is a place to “send the broken students” persi

The Multilingual University with Dr. Saskia Stille

Aug 30th, 2016

In the first episode of Language U, we ask Dr. Saskia Stille what exactly the “multilingual university” is, and listen to an excerpt of a talk she gave about multilingualism and English learning in CELLTR earlier this year.

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