ebulletin: February 2008
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General interest
Date: 8 May, 2008
Location: University of Glasgow (Melville Room)
Event type: Workshop
Date: 25 April, 2008
Location: Sheffield Hallam University, Owen Building, Room 223
Event type: Workshop
Date: 15 April, 2008
Location: Clare College, Cambridge
Event type: Workshop
The winner of the Subject Centre's undergraduate student essay competition 2008 is Siobhan Tebbs Wesley, a final year student studying a Combined Honours in Arts (Arabic, French, Russian and Sociology) at Durham University.
Date: 9 June, 2008
Location: University of Bristol, School of Chemistry, Lecture Theatre 4
Event type: Workshop
Date: 18 April, 2008
Location: Woburn House, Tavistock Square, London
Event type: Workshop
Languages
Date: 26 September, 2008
Location: University of Manchester
Event type: Conference
Date: 8 July, 2008 - 9 July, 2008
Location: University of York
Event type: Conference
Date: 11 April, 2008 - 12 April, 2008
Location: Examination Schools, University of Oxford
Event type: Conference
Language World is the annual conference and exhibition of the Association for Language Learning. It is one of the major events of the language teaching calendar and provides excellent professional development and networking opportunities. It brings together practitioners from across the language teaching world - policy and decision makers, teachers, advisers, teacher trainers, PGCE students, materials writers, publishers, information specialists. The conference theme will be Pulling the Threads Together: the conference will give us the chance to describe some of these threads and to suggest ways to pull them together to create strong and sustainable outcomes, resulting in really effective learning. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 15 February, 2008
Location: Vernon Square Campus, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Event type: Symposium
This symposium is aimed at anybody interested in dyslexia and learning an additional language - either from a learner's or a teacher's perspective. This is an opportunity to come together in a relatively new area and discuss the issues with contributors and colleagues from a broad range of fields. It aims to explore current research as well as to provide lots of examples of best practice. For more information, please see the conference website.
Date: 25 April, 2008
Location: British Academy, London
Event type: Conference
Linguistics
Date: 8 July, 2008 - 9 July, 2008
Location: University of York
Event type: Conference
Date: 30 May, 2008
Location: CILT, London SE1
Event type: Seminar
The Subject Centre is setting up a project to support new staff in linguistics through an e-mentoring scheme. The scheme aims to put new staff in contact with academics with expertise in their field in order to provide advice, support and teaching tips for new staff.
Date: 26 March, 2008
Location: The Old Cinema, 309 Regent Street, London W1W 7UW
Event type: Conference
A half-day conference showcasing ways in which linguistics interacts with language contact and communication. Keynote Address: Peter Mühlhäusler - Lexical development, adaptation and adequacy with special reference to creole languages. Professorial Lecture: Philip Baker - Languages in contact – contexts, consequences and conjectures. For more information, please see the conference website.
Area Studies
Date: 8 July, 2008 - 9 July, 2008
Location: University of York
Event type: Conference
Other news
The third e-learning symposium organised by the Subject Centre brought together practitioners from a wide range of disciplines and institutions. The videos and powerpoints of presentations from the event are available.
CILT, the National Centre for Languages manages a programme called Business Language Champions. Its aim is to bring schools and workplaces, teachers, students and employers together to undertake activities which show the relevance of languages to the world of work and increase the understanding of employers of the language capabilities of students. The aim of the evaluation is to assess the impact of the BLC programme in participating schools from April 2006-March 2007. For further information contact: peter.barron@cilt.org.uk
