February 2012 e-bulletin - LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
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Dear colleague,
Welcome to the LLAS e-bulletin for February 2012. Click here to see this email on the LLAS website.
Message from the Director 
I hope our partners and friends are negotiating the cold spell successfully, literally and figuratively. There has been disappointing news on applications to study languages at university, reinforcing the sense that we are going through some difficult times. But there have also been some very supportive responses in the press, including an encouraging piece from Sir Alan Langlands, CEO of HEFCE. The Welsh minister for education, Leighton Andrews, has also expressed his support for languages. The Routes into Languages community is organising an astonishing amount of activity which is having a noticeable impact on schools and generating support from the wider community, including businesses and football teams. And the languages umbrella association UCML is ramping up its lobbying activities. At LLAS we are more and more convinced that the key to the future of languages lies in collaboration, and we will continue to do all that we can through professional development and collaborative projects to help colleagues in the area of languages, linguistics and area studies to make a real difference in the years ahead.
Mike Kelly (follow Mike on Twitter at @ProfMikeKelly)
Director, LLAS Centre for languages, linguistics and area studies
This month's e-bulletin in brief
- In the news
- LLAS blog: Tweeting and omelettes at the 7th LLAS elearning symposium
- The LLAS events brochure
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CALL FOR PAPERS:
Research in and for Languages Call for papers deadline: 7 March 2012
Nature and the natural in the humanities: Teaching for environmental sustainability Call for papers deadline : 1 March 2012 - LLAS Why study languages? calendar FREE download - February 2012
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NEW EVENTS ADDED:
17 April: Developing Materials for English for Specific Academic Purposes
20 April: The Translation Classroom: Technology, Strategies and Employability
27 April: Nature and the natural in the humanities: Teaching for environmental sustainability
27 April: Research in and for Languages
23 May: The Year Abroad: Maximising and promoting its real value
18-22 June: Teaching in higher education through the medium of English
Further details at www.llas.ac.uk/events
In the news
LLAS e-Learning symposium January 2012
After the success of our 7th annual e-learning symposium held at University of Southampton in January 2012, we are pleased to advise that a selection of presentations and videos are now available to view at : http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/archive/6395
REALIE Project
LLAS is working with colleagues in Modern Languages, University of Southampton who have been successful in their bid to the Higher Education Authority for a new project “Residence and Employment Abroad leading to International Employability”. The project is working with staff and students in Modern Languages to strengthen the employability dimension of work and study abroad experiences. This includes a wider range of employment opportunities for students abroad, students sharing employability experiences with their peers and careers support for building a global graduate profile. It will also be evaluating and extending partnerships with employers abroad as well as exploring employability support for students studying at HEIs abroad.
British Academy award for LLAS
John Canning, Senior Academic Coordinator in the Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, has been awarded funding from the British Academy to write an online statistics textbook for humanities students. This will provide a basic introduction to quantitative analysis using the kind of data most commonly used by humanities students.
British Association for Applied Linguistics - BAAL
45th Annual Meeting - Multingual Theory and Practice in Applied Linguistics
6 - 8 September 2012 - University of Southampton
CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN
http://www.llas.ac.uk/baal2012
LLAS blog
Tweeting and omelettes at the 7th LLAS elearning symposium. Kate Borthwick, LLAS
LLAS has just celebrated its 7th annual elearning symposium with a heady mix of workshops, presentations…and omelettes! The two-day event took place in Southampton on the 26th and 27th January 2012, and was attended by colleagues from across Europe.
The LLAS brochure
Please find a brochure detailing LLAS events for the coming academic year 2011-2012 here. This brochure contains details of all of our events for 2011/12 which include:
- Practical workshops providing skills development and training in a range of fields such as the use of new technologies, pedagogic research, language teaching, relating theory to practice
- Conferences on a range of themes including languages in higher education, e-learning and languages of the wider world
- Professional development events aimed at early career lecturers, senior managers, subject specialists in LLAS disciplines, postgraduate students and language teachers
- Bespoke events for departments on any of the themes covered in this brochure
A downloadable flier about LLAS activity is available here, which you might like to forward to colleagues.
Call for papers
Research in and for Languages - DEADLINE 7 March 2012
27 April 2012 - University of Strathclyde
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6541
Nature and the natural in the humanities : Teaching for environmental sustainability - DEADLINE 1 March 2012
27 April 2012 - University of Birmingham
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6540
LLAS Why study languages? calendar 
FREE calendar download: This calendar, for the month of February 2012, in Gaelic, was produced by LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. It was created with help from teachers working on the JISC-funded Community Cafe project. Look out for another language next month Quiz questions and answers are also included. This is the sixth of a 16-month series lasting until Dec 2012. Please visit : http://languagebox.ac.uk/2047/. You can find all months so far at http://languagebox.ac.uk/1991/.
Hard copies available to purchase: This is the fourth year that the popular ‘Why Study Languages?’ calendar has been produced. The January-December 2012 calendar features 12 languages, one per month. Languages featured this year include: Icelandic, Gaelic, Urdu, Spanish, Persian, French, Punjabi, Estonian, Malay, Hungarian, Welsh and German.
The calendar is available for FREE, with a charge of £3.50 for postage and packing. Funding from JISC has made this possible. For more information, please go to http://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/calendar.
Forthcoming events
FEBRUARY 2012
Using facebook for (language) teaching
14 February 2012 – University College London
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6414
Teach for Success : supporting international students in the classroom
15 February 2012 - Bath Spa University
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6522
MARCH 2012
Effective language teaching in the virtual classroom
1 March 2012 – The Open University and 9 March 2012 – online
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6418
Revolution and Revolt : Understanding the Forms and Causes of Change – BRISMES Annual Conference 2012
26–28 March 2012 – London School of Economics and Political Science
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6487
Sustaining a Global Society : Languages of the Wider World
29-30 March 2012 – School of Oriental and African Studies, London
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6408
APRIL 2012
Life and work in academia : event for new and aspiring lecturers in languages, linguistics and area studies
12 April 2011 - Aston University Conference Centre, Birmingham
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6398
The LOC tool for teachers : authoring your own online learning materials
17 April 2012 - University College London
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6495
NEW - Developing Materials for English for Specific Academic Purposes
17 April 2012 - University of Nottingham
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6548
NEW - The Translation Classroom: Technology, Strategies and Employability
20 April 2012 - University of Salford
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6543
NEW - CALL FOR PAPERS: Nature and the natural in the humanities: Teaching for environmental sustainability
27 April 2012 - University of Birmingham
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6540
NEW - CALL FOR PAPERS: Research in and for Languages
27 April 2012 - University of Strathclyde
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6541
MAY 2012
Essential e-Learning Skills for Teachers of Non-Latin Languages
8 May 2012 - Manchester Metropolitan University
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6518
NEW - The Year Abroad: Maximising and promoting its real value
23 May 2012 - University of Strathclyde
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6547
JUNE 2012
NEW - Teaching in higher education through the medium of English
18 - 22 June 2012 - University of Southampton
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6544
JULY 2012
The LOC tool for teachers : authoring your own online learning materials
4 July - University of Southampton
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6500
Language Futures: Languages in Higher Education conference 2012
5-6 July 2012 - University of Edinburgh
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6404
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