ebulletin: April 2009
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General interest
Date: 16 April, 2009 - 17 April, 2009
Location: Clare College, Cambridge
Event type: Workshop
Languages
Date: 3 April, 2009
Location: University of Glamorgan
Event type: Workshop
Date: 21 April, 2009
Location: University of Exeter - Streatham Campus (LT7 - Queen's building)
Event type: Conference
Date: 8 May, 2009
Location: The Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, 1 Brownlow Street, Liverpool, L69 3GL
Event type: Workshop
Date: 14 May, 2009
Location: George Eliot 219 (ICAN) (pdf), Clifton Campus, Nottingham Trent University
Event type: Workshop
Date: 21 May, 2009
Location: CILT, the National Centre for Languages, London
Event type: Workshop
Date: 1 June, 2009
Location: CILT, the National Centre for Languages, London
Event type: Workshop
Date: 25 September, 2009
Location: Centre for Deaf Studies (Room 4F5, TBC), University of Bristol
Event type: Seminar
The SOAS-UCL CETL for ‘Languages of the Wider World’ (LWW CETL) aims to promote excellence in the teaching and learning of languages that do not have a large presence in higher education in the United Kingdom but which are of increasing strategic importance locally and globally. A key objective of the CETL is to support blended language learning, the combination of face-to-face learning and self-study, using multimedia materials.
LWW CETL has launched the Flexi-Pack project to create a whole range of mobile learning (M-learning) materials with a fully-integrated approach between traditional lessons and self-study. This paper will present the pedagogical rationale behind the Flexi-Packs and will also recommend further developments in relation to them (e.g., collaborative learning) in order to maximise students’ motivations.
The work of the Faroes project is coming to an end - to be taken forward in a new project (OneShare). To celebrate the hard work and help of the language-teaching community in helping us to develop the Language Box, the project are running a competition with £1000 worth of prizes to be won!
Events in April and May organised by QCA will give stakeholders a final chance to have their say on the newly titled Diploma in Languages and International Communication. The title has been changed following extensive research with students and employers in particular which showed it to be a better reflection of the learning involved and more appealing to these key groups.
Linguistics
Date: 25 September, 2009
Location: Centre for Deaf Studies (Room 4F5, TBC), University of Bristol
Event type: Seminar
Date: 26 September, 2009
Location: The Hawthorns, University of Bristol
Event type: Applied Sign Linguistics Symposium
Events in April and May organised by QCA will give stakeholders a final chance to have their say on the newly titled Diploma in Languages and International Communication. The title has been changed following extensive research with students and employers in particular which showed it to be a better reflection of the learning involved and more appealing to these key groups.
Area Studies
Date: 21 April, 2009
Location: University of Exeter - Streatham Campus (LT7 - Queen's building)
Event type: Conference
Date: 24 April, 2009
Location: Institute of Latin American Studies, 86 Bedford Street South, University of Liverpool
Event type: Discussion roundtable
Date: 14 May, 2009
Location: George Eliot 219 (ICAN) (pdf), Clifton Campus, Nottingham Trent University
Event type: Workshop
Events in April and May organised by QCA will give stakeholders a final chance to have their say on the newly titled Diploma in Languages and International Communication. The title has been changed following extensive research with students and employers in particular which showed it to be a better reflection of the learning involved and more appealing to these key groups.
The study of the Middle East in UK universities dates back at least to the seventeenth century. The Middle East is taught and researched by scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines and student numbers studying Middle Eastern languages and area studies have substantially increased in the last few years.
Other news
UCML has issued a call for nominations on the Executive for three posts:
• Treasurer
• English Language Teaching
• Institution Wide Language Teaching
Deadline is 9th April 2009.
For more information please go to the website http://www.ucml.org.uk/ and follow the link
