ebulletin: October 2008
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General interest
Date: 29 January, 2009 - 30 January, 2009
Location: Avenue Campus, University of Southampton
Event type: Symposium
LLAS issues an annual call for bids for pedagogic / action research projects in priority areas. LLAS welcomes applications for our guest speaker fund and for travel bursaries.
Début: The Undergraduate Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies is an online peer-reviewed journal for undergraduate students of languages, linguistics and area studies. It aims to showcase scholarship carried out by undergraduate students in these subject areas. The first issue was launched in June 2010.
Languages
Date: 24 October, 2008
Location: School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth
Event type: Workshop
Date: 21 November, 2008
Location: The Leeds Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds
Event type: Workshop
Date: 1 December, 2008
Location: University of Edinburgh, Playfair Library
Event type: Workshop
Date: 9 January, 2009
Location: Room 1.20, Engineering Building, Malet Place, University College London
Event type: Workshop
Date: 15 October, 2008
Location: University of Portsmouth (Park Building)
Event type: Workshop
Come and experience a new way of finding, managing and sharing your language-teaching resources as the best principles of Web 2.0 meet Language Teaching! The FAROES project, led by the Learning Societies Lab, at the University of Southampton and in association with the University of Portsmouth, is ready to present and test a beta version of the FAROES LanguageShare. The project team have taken the best-practice principles of Web 2.0 sites - that they are social, interlinked, evolving, flexible, visually exciting and easy to use, and created the prototype FAROES LanguageShare, a lightweight repository for language teachers to store, manage and share their resources. We are now ready to show the world for the first time at a day-long workshop, to be held at the University of Portsmouth. There is no fee to attend this event, and lunch plus all refreshments will be provided. Reasonable travel expenses will be reimbursed. For more information, please see the conference website.
Papers are invited for a forthcoming special issue of the Language Learning Journal, the official journal of the Association for Language Learning (ALL), on Languages of the Wider World: Valuing Diversity.
Area Studies
Date: 17 October, 2008
Location: Council Chamber, Singleton Abbey, Swansea University
Event type: Seminar
Date: 21 November, 2008
Location: The Leeds Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds
Event type: Workshop
This online introductory course to the tools and techniques of formal analysis is aimed at students and anyone interested in art. It is freely available for anyone to use, and assumes no particular prior knowledge of the visual arts. The course guides you through some of the key aspects of form - from the colours in the painting to the materials used to paint it - and explores a number of examples through guided activities.
Other news
Following a successful conference on Enquiry-Based Learning (EBL) in languages http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/archive/2916, organised by the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Manchester, with support from LLAS and the Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning (CEEBL), colleagues are invited to join a new Jiscmail discussion list on this theme: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ebl-in-languages
