Calendar

Date	Event
Nov 2003 – March 2004	Recruitment of volunteers. Contact with schools
15/16 April 2004	Preparation workshop for first group of English FLAs, Homerton College, Cambridge
23/24 June 2004	Preparation workshop for a second group of English FLAs, Lancaster University
22 September 2004	Preparation workshop for French Responsables, CIEP, Sèvres
23 September 2004	Preparation workshop for English Mentors, Homerton College, Cambridge
28/29 September 2004	Preparation workshop for French FLAs, Homerton College, Cambridge
11-14 Nov 2004	Dissemination of preliminary findings: 5th IALIC Conference, Dublin City University 'Politics and Pragmatics in the Cross-Cultural Management of Rapport' Robert Crawshaw and Julia Harrison
January 2005 - August 2005	Receiving, cataloguing and transcribing data
18 March 2005	Retrospective workshop for French FLAs and English mentors, Homerton College, Cambridge
23 March 2005	Retrospective workshop for English FLAs and French responsables, CIEP, Sèvres
September 2005 - October 2005	Upgrading and developing the database. Transcribing retrospective data
October 2005 – December 2005	Codification of data
7 Dec 2005	Video-link conference organised by British Council on 'Assistants Programme' Robert Crawshaw
January 2006 - September 2006	Analysis and dissemination of research outcomes
27 March 2006	PIC Project Presentation, British Council, London Robert Crawshaw, Julia Harrison, Jonathan Culpeper
27-30 March 2006	31st International LAUD Symposium, Landau, Germany 'Activity types as a bridge for micro and macro politeness research: contexts of culture in interactions between student foreign language assistants and their supervisors in schools in France and England' Paper given by Jonathan Culpeper
23-24 June 2006	3rd IVACS Group Conference, University of Nottingham 'Formality and informality in cross-cultural communication: a study of interactions between student foreign language assistants and their supervisors in schools in England and France' Paper given by Julia Harrison
6-7 July 2006	LLAS/CILT Conference, University of Cardiff 'Language assistants: enhancing the learning experience' and 'Atlas and PIC codification' Talk given by Robert Crawshaw and Julia Harrison
6-8 July 2006	Sociolonguistics Symposium 16, University of Limerick 'Aspects of rapport management:some differences in politeness behaviour between French and English native speakers in educational contexts' Paper given by Robert Crawshaw
7-9 September 2006	BAAL/IRAAL Annual Conference, University College, Cork 'Complainte' or 'Complaisance': a cross-cultural study of complaint among foreign language teaching assistants in France and England Paper given by Robert Crawshaw