ebulletin: December 2007
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General interest
Date: 7 February, 2008
Location: Room 2B, ULU, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HY
Event type: Workshop
Date: 6 February, 2008
Location: Room 2B, ULU, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HY
Event type: Workshop
Date: 25 January, 2008
Location: Avenue Campus, University of Southampton
Event type: Symposium
Date: 17 January, 2008
Location: University of Ulster (Jordanstown Campus)
Event type: Conference
The University of Ulster is organising its sixth annual all-Ireland e-learning conference, to be held at the Jordanstown campus on Thursday 17th January 2008. The aim of the conference is to raise awareness of the benefits of using on-line technologies in teaching, learning and assessment. The conference will address themes associated with the creation, support and development of an e-learning community, with particular emphasis on the impact of e-learning. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 25 June, 2008 - 26 June, 2008
Location: Southampton Solent University
Event type: Conference
The conference is aimed at UK and overseas higher education managers and academics interested in improving the student learning experience utilising an evidence-based approach and institutional research in general. It is hoped that the following themes will be explored through a mixture of keynotes, presentations and small group discussions: Exploring Conceptions of Institutional Research, Enhancing the Student Learning Experience, Student Diversity and Retention, Informing Marketing Intelligence, Embedding Institutional Research into Institutional Practices. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 15 April, 2008
Location: Clare College, Cambridge
Event type: Workshop
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
Materials for advanced (post A-levels) students of Italian which comprise a language package which focuses on the varieties of the Italian language. The aim is to develop students' awareness of the different registers of the standard language, of the main features of regional Italian, of the linguistic tools employed in the sectoral language and of the most significant linguistic aspects that characterize the speech of a number of selected Italian films.
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.
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.
The Subject Centre is coordinating a three-year project under the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Erasmus Network programme. The LanQua project is developing a Language Network for Quality Assurance and involves 60 partners across Europe.
Prizes will be awarded to sixth formers and university students (aged 16-25) for a short story inspired by France and the French. The winning pieces will also appear in Prospect and the best contributions will be included in an exciting new collection of work to be published by the Franco-British Council.
Linguistics
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.
Date: 2 June, 2008 - 5 June, 2008
Location: University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Event type: Conference
The conference on Mediating Multilingualism approaches mediation and multilingualism from a double perspective: in its focus are the different ways and means for mediating multilingualism, as well as multilingualism as a mediational system. The aim is to shed light on the complexities of this relationship and to develop new ways of investigating and understanding the roles, meanings and modalities of mediation in multilingual settings. To this end, the conference aims at bringing together researchers, students, teachers and other practitioners who share an interest in exploring the interface between mediation and multilingualism as a particular linguistic, social, cultural and ideological contact zone where the meanings of languages, identities and relationships are reassessed and renegotiated. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 11 September, 2008 - 13 September, 2008
Location: Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK
Event type: Conference
Abstracts are welcome in any area of Applied Linguistics that fits within the theme of the conference - "Taking the Measure of Applied Linguistics". This theme is deliberately intended to be inclusive and might include papers which take stock of Applied Linguistics generally, consider attempts to quantify language and language learning which is one important element of Applied Linguistics, or make the case that non-quantified language descriptions can be equally valid and useful in linguistic applications. For more information, please see the conference website.
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
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