Archived ebulletin: January 2006

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This bulletin contains information on the following:

1. Teaching Translation
2. UCML Plenary
3. EUROCALL Regional Workshop - "Multimedia Language Learning - where are we now?
4. CALR conference of the Language Learning and Teaching Special Interest Group (LLT SIG) of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
5. All other events
6. Review into Modern Languages Research
7. Survey: Multimedia Language Learning Survey and the chance to win an I-Pod
8. Call for papers in an anthology
9. Call for papers - 2nd International Conference "Responding to the needs of the Chinese learner internationalising the university"
10. ENLU consultation Europe - wide consultation on the need for a languages-for-all Policy
11. Student award 2006 - Call for essays
12. Subject Centre website updates
13. Online research resource ESRC Society Today
14. German extension courses
15. "Deaf and multilingual"
16. Exchange: Theme - research and evaluation

Subject Centre events

1. Teaching Translation

University of Wales, Swansea, 20 January 2006
This event which will seek to assess current approaches and likely future directions in Translation and Interpreting Studies is only a few days away. There are still a few places left so anyone who would like to attend but has not registered yet is asked to go to the Subject Centre events page and submit the online registration form as soon as possible.

Other events

2. UCML Plenary

16 January 2006 at CILT
The next plenary of the University Council of Modern Languages will take place on Monday 16 January at CILT. There has been some good news for languages lately, and we would be pleased to see representatives of as many language departments as possible at the Plenary to discuss new initiatives. For more details email: Mary.Ohene@cilt.org.uk

3. EUROCALL regional workshop - "Multimedia Language Learning - where are we now?

University of Portsmouth, 09 February 2006
EUROCALL and Portsmouth University are pleased to announce a regional one-day workshop event which will take place at the School of Languages and Area Studies, Park Building, King Henry I street, Portsmouth, PO1 2DZ (nearest station Portsmouth & Southsea). The event is entitled "Multimedia Language Learning: Where Are We Now?" with speakers to include Professor John Gillespie, Dr Lesley Shield, Dr George Ypsilandis, Dr Paul Bangs and Professor Graham Davies. The event will take place on Thursday 9 February 2006. For further information and registration details please go to the University of Portsmouth event page (www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/slas/conferences/mll/website).

4. CALR Conference of the Language Learning and Teaching Special Interest Group (LLT SIG) of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL)

19/20 April 2006
University of Southampton
On 19/20 April 2006 The Centre for Applied Language Research (CALR) will be hosting a conference of the Language Learning and Teaching SIG of the British Association for Applied Linguistics. The Conference topic is: "Language use, language processing and language learning: interfaces in instructed second language acquisition." For full particulars of the conference and the call for papers please contact Ros Mitchell (CALR and BAAL LLT SIG) at: r.f.mitchell@soton.ac.uk or Emma Marsden at em502@york.ac.uk. The final deadline for receipt of paper proposals is 03 February 2006.

5. All other events

Please visit the Subject Centre events page for details of events not being organised by the Subject Centre.

Review into Modern Languages research

6. Review into Modern Languages research

The Subject Centre into Modern Languages Research. This will start in January 2006 and will be led by Professor Michael Kelly, Director of the Subject Centre. A research assistant is to be appointed. The post is advertised on jobs.ac.uk (www.jobs.ac.uk/jobfiles/PY807.html)

Survey: Multimedia Language Learning Survey

7. Survey: Multimedia Language Learning Survey and the chance to win an I-Pod

We are conducting a survey on behalf of the University of Ulster, Centre of Excellence in Multimedia Language Learning. We are interested in the many ways that technology is employed in language teaching and learning, in particular, the use that is being made of dedicated digital facilities. The questionnaire (www.geodata.soton.ac.uk/llas/learning_survey/) should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. All entries received by the extended deadline of 13 January will be entered into a prize draw for an Apple i-Pod.

Call for papers

8. Call for papers in an anthology

Research articles that address the issue of teaching and learning foreign/second languages by disabled learners, either in the form of a qualitative or quantitative enquiry are sought by Judit Kormos and Edit Hegybiro Kontra (Etvs Lorand University, Hungary). Please email them at kormos.j@chello.hu for more details.

9. Call for papers - 2nd International Conference - "Responding to the needs of the Chinese learner: internationalising
the university"

University of Portsmouth - 15/16 July 2006
Deadline: 31 January 2006
Abstracts of up to 300 words are invited for individual or joint papers in the form of parallel sessions, workshops or poster presentations. Please send abstracts to : Tricia.Coverdale-Jones@port.ac.uk or submit them at the conference webpage (www.port.ac.uk/chineselearners). For information about booking a place at this conference please contact Michelle.Matthews@port.ac.uk.

ENLU consultation

10. ENLU consultation

The ENLU project (European Network for the Promotion of Language Learning among all Undergraduates) has just launched a Europe-wide consultation on the need for a languages-for-all policy. Please read the ENLU consultation document and respond to the survey at the ENLU website (www.elccel.org/enlu-consultation/index.html). The outcomes of this consultation will be presented at a conference to be held in Nancy on 7-8 April 2006.

Student Award 2006 - Call for essays

11. Student Award 2006 - Call for essays

Closing date: 17 February 2006
A Reminder that only four weeks remain until the closing date for entries for this award. The Subject Centre is giving language students the chance to offer their opinions and experiences in a 1000-word essay entitled 'How does your experience of your course compare with any expectations you may have had?' This opportunity is open to anyone studying Languages, Linguistics or Area Studies as part of their HE course. There is a 250 prize for the winning entry, which will be featured on the Subject Centre website. For further details see the Subject Centre news page. If you would like some postcards, flyers and/or posters to promote the competition, please contact Paula Davis at pd2@soton.ac.uk

Subject Centre website updates

12. New Resources this month

Language trends by Keith Marshall (2005)

Materials Bank: Portuguese language online

Online research resource - ESRC Society Today

13. Online research resource - ESRC Society Today

The ESRC Society Today website (www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk) - launched in May 2005 by The Economic and Social Research Council - provides academics, students and researchers with a valuable, free digest of social sciences research available, planned and in progress.

German extension courses

14. German extension courses

The School of Languages and Area Studies at the University of Portsmouth has been selected by the Training and Development Agency to deliver this short intensive course designed to support graduates with a language other than German to achieve sufficient competence in German to enable them to teach accurately and confidently at secondary level to at least key stage 3 (ages 11-14). For further information please contact the following people at the University of Portsmouth: Tanya Riordan on 023 9284 5227 - email tanya.riordan@port.ac.uk.

Publications

15. "Deaf and multilingual"

New publication: Deaf and Multilingual - A practical guide to teaching and supporting deaf learners in foreign language classes by Judith Mole, Hilary McColl and Mireille Vale. This book is about deaf people learning spoken/written foreign languages and is written primarily for those teaching and supporting deaf learners attending standard foreign language learning classes. The book is available as an eBook only, there is a Windows version: 135 pages. ISBN 0-9551424-6-6 and a Mac (Pdf) version: 119 pages. ISBN 0-9551424-5-1. More information is available from the Direct Learn website (www.directlearn.co.uk/ashop/catalogue.php?exp=7|&cat=8)

16. Exchange: Theme - research and evaluation

The Subject Centre now has copies of Issue 2/Autumn 2005 of the HE Academy publication EXCHANGE available upon request. Please email llas@soton.ac.uk if you would like to receive a copy.

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Jane Copeland
Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
Modern Languages,
School of Humanities,
University of Southampton,
Highfield,
Southampton,
SO17 1BJ

Tel: 023 8059 4814
Fax: 023 8059 4815
Email: ljc2@soton.ac.uk