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Runner-up of the student award 2010: Studying languages, linguistics or area studies at university: a guide for new students
- 24 May 2010
India-Chloe Woof, a 3rd year French and Linguistics student at the University of Sheffield, was a runner up in the Subject Centre's undergraduate student award competition 2010.
Winner of the student award: Encouraging school pupils to study languages, linguistics or area studies at university
- 12 May 2010
The winner of the Subject Centre's undergraduate student essay competition 2010 is Daniel Finch-Race, a 3rd year Modern European Languages student at the University of Edinburgh. Daniel’s winning entry is a promotional article aimed at encouraging school pupils to study languages, linguistics or area studies at university.
Integrating key work skills into an undergraduate language module: marketing and media in France
Laetitia Vedrenne and Sally Wagstaffe - 16 November 2009
‘Marketing and the Media in France’ is a final-year undergraduate module which integrates the development of key or transferable skills with the acquisition of subject-specific knowledge (of marketing and the advertising media in France) and the development of all four language skills. This case study provides an outline of the module, its aims and assessment methods, introduces some of the resources used to support the module and reviews student responses regarding the challenges and benefits of integrating key skills into a final-year module as they prepare to make the transition into the world of work.
Employability and Enquiry-Based Learning in Languages
Julie Lawton and Catherine Franc - 18 June 2009
The UK seems to be experiencing a dilemma regarding languages and employment, with a reduction in the number of students taking languages at specialist level and yet an increase in demand for competent linguists in all fields of work worldwide. This paper will address some of the issues facing both recruiters to language programmes in HE and language graduates embarking on the job market. Since, currently, British language graduates are something of a minority, we will consider the “added value” qualities they can offer to employers, and what employers are seeking in job candidates that linguists might uniquely fulfil.
In French Studies at the University of Manchester, we have been engaged in several innovative projects exploring the use of Enquiry-Based Learning (EBL) within our grammar and oral programmes and also in a project designed to maximize students’ linguistic experience of their residence abroad (not discussed in this paper). We believe that EBL methods enable students to achieve both an expert “product” and a transferable “process” as the outcome of their studies, thus providing them with valuable employment skills: successful group-working strategies, confidence in giving presentations, practice in time-management, administrative and organizational skills, the ability to research independently through a variety of resources, and a flexible, open-minded attitude to new situations and tasks.
Why teach French sociolinguistics?
David Nott - 18 June 2009
What is the place of linguistics and sociolinguistics in the undergraduate French programme? For 20 years, I taught a second-year undergraduate module (10 weeks, 2 hours/ week) on ‘The making of the modern French language’, chosen by about 20 students each year. The course was modified to take account of research, seminar discussions, students’ work, and feedback questionnaires. This description of the course is intended as an encouragement to colleagues teaching French to undergraduates to consider offering a course on similar (or different!) lines, or to consider including in an existing course some of the topics and/or approaches outlined here.
French as a foreign language and the Common European Framework of Reference for languages
- 20 February 2007
Developing online self-access materials for subject specific language courses at an advanced level (SAM Project)
- 12 January 2007
New hats for old: Intercultural competence and the integration of language and linguistics teaching
- 19 January 2005
Bridging the Gap: University of Manchester
Julie Lawton and Annie Morton and Thomas Despositos and Susana Lorenzo and Elena Polisca - 18 January 2005
An interim assessment of the introduction of accredited portfolios in introductory French courses
- 12 January 2005
Yes, but is PEL the same as ELP?
- 12 January 2005
Using parallel corpora in translation
Raphael Salkie - 25 February 2003
Hidden merits of the translation class
Penelope Sewell - 17 February 2003
Empty-headed linguists? French undergraduates and learning transfer
Françoise Close and Mike Fay - 14 February 2003
French studies in UK higher education
Tony Chafer - 27 September 2002
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