ebulletin: November 2007
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General interest
Date: 16 June, 2008 - 17 June, 2008
Location: Liverpool Hope University
Event type: Conference
The PRHE organisers are calling for submissions of abstracts (300 words) for papers and posters (research or theoretical/conceptual). All abstracts for both types of submission will be independently reviewed by two referees. In particular, we are looking for submissions that are empirically and/or theoretically based rather than un-theorised descriptions of practice. Authors of accepted papers (not posters) will be given the opportunity for redrafting after the conference for publication in a special conference issue of PRIME (Pedagogical Research in Maximising Education) to be distributed to every conference delegate. 30 November 2007 is the deadline for receipt of abstracts and 1 February 2008 is the date for notification of acceptance. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 22 January, 2008
Location: Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL
Event type: Conference
The conference will bring together issues, key evidence and recommendations for action by HEIs and relevant sectoral bodies. A mix of plenaries, discussion sessions and case study presentations will offer opportunities to explore ways of tackling differential attainment. In identifying practices HEIs can use to address statutory requirements to promote equality of opportunity, this conference will also explore the benefits derived from creating inclusive and fair learning and assessment experiences for all students. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 7 December, 2007
Location: CILT, 3rd Floor, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1
Event type: Other
CILT is moving, come and see the resources collection at the new premises on Friday December 7th There will be a chance to discuss your future needs with staff from CILT and the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. There will also be a presentation by the South East consortium of the Routes into Languages Programme, an initiative funded by HEFCE and the DCSF to increase and widen participation in language study in upper secondary and higher education. For more information, please email Steve Cushion.
Languages
Date: 8 July, 2008 - 9 July, 2008
Location: University of York
Event type: Conference
Date: 31 January, 2008
Location: Humanities Research Institute, Douglas Knoop Centre, University of Sheffield, 34 Gell Street, Sheffield, S3 7QY
Event type: Seminar
Proposals are invited for this year’s Workshop to Go programme. Workshops dealing with key themes for this year include assessment, supporting new staff and engaging with employers will be particularly welcome. The successful applicant will be required to produce a training pack and run two regional training sessions for HE staff. Participants at the workshop will then be expected to 'cascade' the training within their institutions.
Date: 7 December, 2007
Location: CILT, 3rd Floor, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1
Event type: Other
CILT is moving, come and see the resources collection at the new premises on Friday December 7th There will be a chance to discuss your future needs with staff from CILT and the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. There will also be a presentation by the South East consortium of the Routes into Languages Programme, an initiative funded by HEFCE and the DCSF to increase and widen participation in language study in upper secondary and higher education. For more information, please email Steve Cushion.
These materials can be used for a range of BSL teaching, as students will be able to develop many features from using these in and outside of class. From looking at these pictures and signing the storylines, students are able to improve their BSL aspects, including Placement, Role shifting, Direction, Movement and Referencing. For more general BSL study, students are able to establish a better knowledge of Vocabulary, Classifiers, Handshapes and Sign order. Students studying at all levels of BSL are able to develop their BSL grammar and acquire better understanding of the topic-comment structure, several parts of aspect and manner such as speed, duration and intensity.
Linguistics
Date: 8 July, 2008 - 9 July, 2008
Location: University of York
Event type: Conference
Date: 16 April, 2008
Location: Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Event type: Symposium
This event is a one-day symposium organised by the BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG. The purpose of the meeting is to present and discuss research based on studying originals and one or more translations. Languages may be any combination of two or more languages, including sign languages. Any type of corpus systematic processing and analysis is permissible, including the use of Multiconc or Paraconc software, typed transcripts and audiovisual files. For more information, please contact Verena Jung.
Date: 15 March, 2008
Location: the University of Essex, Colchester
Event type: Conference
The Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex invites you to its third postgraduate day-conference held on 15th March 2008. Following the success of the previous years' postgraduate conferences, we will be inviting papers covering *any* field of Linguistics. This conference is aimed at postgraduate students and presents them with a great opportunity to present and discuss current research, results and problems and meet their peers. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 25 January, 2008
Location: University of Southampton
Event type: Workshop
This workshop will present a new corpus of spoken L2 Spanish (Spanish Language learner Oral Corpus: SPLLOC), and review the potential contribution of learner corpora to SLA research. It consists of samples of learner speech in a variety of genres, from beginners to advanced. The conventions and software of the CHILDES project have been used for transcription and part of speech tagging of the corpus. The programme includes presentations from members of the SPLLOC team about the corpus design and associated research programme, and a hands-on workshop demonstrating CHILDES programmes for data analysis. For more information, please see the conference website.
Proposals are invited for this year’s Workshop to Go programme. Workshops dealing with key themes for this year include assessment, supporting new staff and engaging with employers will be particularly welcome. The successful applicant will be required to produce a training pack and run two regional training sessions for HE staff. Participants at the workshop will then be expected to 'cascade' the training within their institutions.
Area Studies
Date: 8 July, 2008 - 9 July, 2008
Location: University of York
Event type: Conference
Proposals are invited for this year’s Workshop to Go programme. Workshops dealing with key themes for this year include assessment, supporting new staff and engaging with employers will be particularly welcome. The successful applicant will be required to produce a training pack and run two regional training sessions for HE staff. Participants at the workshop will then be expected to 'cascade' the training within their institutions.
Other news
This month we welcome Rebekah Mann to LLAS as a full time administrator. She will be working on subject centre admin and the Lanqua project.
The British Council would like us to point out that they have several senior adviser posts available which might interest HE colleagues; one is in assessment and testing and the other is in the area of language and culture. More details can be found at www.britishcounciljobs.org/roles.asp
As an experiment, CILT - the National Centre for Languages has published the Autumn edition of the "HIGHER" bulletin as a web edition:
www.cilt.org.uk/he/higher/autumn2007.htm
HIGHER contains information and articles on language teaching and research of interest to the higher education community. It is published three times per year, during the Spring, Summer and Autumn terms.
Send your views on the change to Steve Cushion.
The Centre for Excellence in Multimedia Language Learning at the University of Ulster aims to develop appropriate teaching methods that fully engage students in their own learning through the integration of Information and Communication Technology into classroom teaching. The Centre would like to invite proposals for the development of projects that would facilitate language teaching and learning in a multimedia laboratory. Project proposals are welcome from individuals as well as teams.
Successful applicants will receive an award of a maximum of £3000, depending on the scope of the project. This funding may used for development of course materials or software creation, for example. To apply, please visit the CETL website.
