Teaching Less Widely Used and Less Taught Languages (LWULT)
Date: 1 June, 2009
Location: CILT, the National Centre for Languages, London
Event type: Workshop
Past event summary
This one-day workshop is aimed at teachers of less widely used and less taught languages in Higher Education. It will also be of interest to researchers of community language pedagogies.
This event is organised by the Subject Centre for Languages Linguistics and Area Studies in collaboration with CILT, the National Centre for Languages and the SOAS-UCL Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Languages of the Wider World.
This workshop brings together expertise to share good practice in the teaching and learning of LWULT languages in the HE environment in a number of areas including:
- Motivation of community language students
- Languages of the wider world and the Common European Framework for Reference – levels and assessment
- Using technology to produce and share resources
- Approaches to dialects and diglossia
- Teaching tones
- Teaching scripts
- Managing mixed ability classes and teaching ab initio
- Q&A panel
Workshop fee
There is no charge to attend for employees and postgraduate students of publicly funded UK educational institutions. The fee for employees and postgraduate students of private institutions/organisations and non-UK institutions is £40.
Lunch will be provided. We reserve the right to charge a £50.00 non-attendance fee.
Travel bursary
A travel bursary is available for this event.
Time | Session |
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09.45 - 10.20 | Registration and coffee |
10.20 - 10.30 | Welcome and intro |
10.30 - 11.15 | Language and Identity: issues around language learning, identity formation and motivation Professor Itesh Sachdev, Professor of Language and Communication, Director: SOAS-UCL Centre of Excellence for Languages of the Wider World |
11.15 - 12.00 |
Reading as a social act |
12.00 - 12.30 | Using technology for sharing resources LLAS team Slides |
12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch and tour of library |
13.30 - 15.15 | Workshops (will run twice)
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15.15 - 15.30 | Tea and coffee |
15.30 - 16.15 | Less widely taught languages and the CEFR |
16.15 - 16.30 | Summary and follow-up e.g. other events |