Extending good practice in LWULT languages (20 Feb 2004)
Date: 20 February, 2004
Location: CILT, London
Event type: Seminar
Past event summary
A highly informative and diverse workshop which highlights the end of a one-year project examining and addressing the particular needs of departments teaching minority languages. The seven mini-projects that participated in the LWULT Project present their findings at this workshop.
The workshop is particularly recommended to those interested in:
- Materials development for independent learning, face-to-face or distance teaching in LWULT
- Innovative use of technology in learning and teaching
- Collaboration across languages and between institutions
Programme
| 10.30 | Welcome and coffee |
| 10.45 – 11.10 | Materials for an on-line (Bulgarian) course in an LWULT language Jim Dingley (University College London) |
| 11.10 – 11.35 | Interactive Learning for Arabic Steve Cushion (London Metropolitan University) |
| 11.35 – 12.00 | Horses for courses: learning Irish from a computer Gregory Toner (University of Ulster) |
| 12.00 – 12.25 | Developing web-based resources and educational materials for the on-line learning and teaching of Portuguese Margaret Clarke (University of Portsmouth) |
| 12.25 – 12.45 | Discussion and questions: IT in Language Learning |
| 12.45 – 13.45 | Lunch and material display |
| 13.45 – 14.15 | Finding your way in Arabic Randal Holme (University of Durham) |
| 14.15 – 14.45 | The identifying and describing of Hindi learning and teaching materials Eun Bahng (SOAS) |
| 14.45 – 15.15 | Cultural twist – a language-learning framework with cultural awareness activities Hitomi Masuhara (Leeds Metropolitan University) |
| 15.15 – 16.00 | Discussion |
