LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies

Collaborative working using open research data to create Open Educational Resources for the humanities
Event date: 23 May, 2012
Location: Room 2151, Blg 65, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton

Languages in higher education 2010: raising the standard for languages
Event date: 1 July, 2010 - 2 July, 2010
Location: Etc venues, London, SE1 1GA

Teaching textual analysis in modern languages
Event date: 13 November, 2009
Location: University of Bath, Building 8 West, Room 2.8

Student study day: Beat Writing Day
Event date: 23 January, 2009
Location: Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham

Teaching film in modern languages
Event date: 19 June, 2009
Location: University of Bristol, School of Modern Languages, 19 Woodland Road, Lecture Theatre 1 (access through the entrance to the Arts Faculty, 5-7 Woodland Road) 

Teaching poetry in modern languages degree programmes
Event date: 21 April, 2009
Location: University of Exeter - Streatham Campus (LT7 - Queen's building)

Student study day: analysing Dante's poetry
Event date: 6 December, 2008
Location: Leeds Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds

Texts in translation
Event date: 31 January, 2008
Location: Humanities Research Institute, Douglas Knoop Centre, University of Sheffield, 34 Gell Street, Sheffield, S3 7QY

Teaching literatures of the Americas
Event date: 18 October, 2007
Location: Rm LG33, Building 28 (Learning Centre), Edgbaston Campus, University of Birmingham

The origin of local Sussex place names (6 Dec 06)
Event date: 6 December, 2006
Location: University of Brighton

Teaching translation (20 Jan 06)
Event date: 20 January, 2006
Location: Callaghan Lecture Theatre, James Callaghan Building, University of Wales, Swansea

Routes into reading (20 Oct 05)
Event date: 20 October, 2005
Location: Room 329 and 330, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street

Bridging the gap (11 March 2005)
Event date: 11 March, 2005
Location: Lower College Hall, St Andrews University

New methods in literary linguistics (26 Nov 2004)
Event date: 26 November, 2004
Location: Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

Set texts? New approaches to the teaching of literature in languages and related/area studies
Event date: 6 June, 2003
Location: CILT, London

Teaching Literary Studies Theory in Practice
Event date: 8 February, 2002

Curriculum Innovation in the Teaching of Literature and Culture on Modern Foreign Language Programmes
Event date: 26 April, 2002
Location: CILT, London

Groupwork literature review
ASKe commissioned a literature review looking at the assessment of groupwork and they promised to alert you when it became available.

Mini-projects: Call for bids
The Subject Centre is funding small projects to address the development, implementation and evaluation of innovative approaches to teaching, learning and assessment in Higher Education. The scheme is aimed at academics wanting to develop and evaluate new approaches to their teaching practices.

Internationalisation of the curriculum and support for international students
As part of our programme of activity on the internationalisation of higher education the Higher Education Academy has commissioned a literature review and is putting out a call for case studies of practice in the areas of internationalisation of the curriculum and support for international students.

Call for manuscripts
Academic Exchange Quarterly is looking for articles dealing with the teaching of literature and culture.

Film, novel and social transformation in France
This is a blended learning exemplar developed for use on a second year undergraduate module in French available on the Modern Languages Programme at Nottingham Trent University. The module, Film, Novel and Social Transformation in France, is currently taught by a team comprised of Professor Jean-Pierre Boulé and Dr. Enda McCaffrey.

Graffiti de Julio Cortázar

This learning object looks at a story by the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar who was writing in difficult and oppressive political times during the last military dictatorship in Argentina which ended in 1983 just one year before his death.

This learning object has been subject to peer review and editing, and is entirely in Spanish.

En esta unidad leerás el cuento Graffiti de Julio Cortázar (escritor argentino 1914-1984), el cual trata del flirteo de una pareja de enamorados durante los años de la última dictadura militar en Argentina (1976-1983). Aprenderás cómo se pudo haber sentido el ciudadano común en una época de represión cuando los actos más ingenuos se convertían en peligrosos y subversivos. Además de leer el cuento, podrás escucharlo en las grabaciones al principio de cada parte. El acento que escucharás es el de una nativa de Argentina.

French urban space: The city in French literature

French Urban Space helps you read and study the Paris novels of the nineteenth century. Its key aims are to improve your reading strategies for French literature. The activities show you how to generate essay questions, develop arguments and create your own original material for writing papers. You can work through the whole package over a semester whilst reading the French novels of the nineteenth century, guided by your lecturer.

These online materials are a set of resources that encourage undergraduates to engage with area studies through French language and through French literary studies. The materials developed do not simply use web technologies to add interactivity to the learning objects (LOs) but also equip humanities students with an introductory understanding of the emerging technologies of mark-up for handling digital texts in the Web 2.0 era of The Semantic Web.

Teaching visual arts in a university modern languages syllabus
This website provides the full presentations (as MP3 files) and PowerPoint slides from the National Workshop on Teaching Visual Arts in a University Modern Languages Syllabus, which took place on Friday 23rd November, 2007 in St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

German: Podcasting Goethe
This website is designed to enhance the study and enjoyment of Goethe’s early poetry. It features readings of a selection of poems, available as podcasts, which span the period from roughly 1771 up to Goethe’s departure for Italy in the autumn of 1786. German transcriptions are provided, as are English translations to help listeners through the poems: these translations are of varying quality and are included as a guide only.

Spanish: Torquemada en la hoguera
An electronic edition of the 1889 novel, 'Torquemada en la hoguera', by one of Spain's greatest writers, Benito Pérez Galdós. This edition has been created as part of the Pérez Galdós Editions Project at the University of Sheffield and allows both students and scholars to engage with this classic text in new and innovative ways.

Linguistics: Language and style
This is a web-based introductory course in Stylistic Analysis created by Mick Short with funding from the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) prize. Stylistics is a systematic way of exploring (primarily literary) texts. It looks at the language of texts and tries to explain how that language creates meaning, style and effect. Language and Style covers all three major literary genres (poetry, prose and drama), and also other text-types e.g. advertisments.

Special Interest Group for Literary and Cultural Studies

The teaching of stylistics
Stylistics is the study of linguistic style, whereas (theoretical) Linguistics is the study of linguistic form. The term 'style' is used in linguistics to describe the choices which language makes available to a user, above and beyond the choices necessary for the simple expression of a meaning. Linguistic form can be interpreted as a set of possibilities for the production of texts, and thereby linguistic form makes possible linguistic style.

New ways of teaching literature
This article outlines my experiences in teaching the novels of the major nineteenth-century author Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) to second-year students at the Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Sheffield. My course (HSS 264) aims to encourage students to think creatively and independently, to appreciate not only the stimulation, but also the enjoyment derived from the study of literature. It combines traditional literature teaching with innovative methods and multimedia resources, including an electronic critical edition of Torquemada en la hoguera (1889) and Buñuel's film of Tristana (1892). It is a venture that has enabled both the students and myself to benefit from the virtues of multimedia and 'research-led teaching' in its broadest sense (Brew 2001, McGuinness n.d.).

Translation Studies in the UK

Translation Studies in the UK is a small but expanding field of study. Programmes are primarily at postgraduate level though some elements of translation studies are included in first degree programmes in ancient and modern languages. The cultural approach to translation is the most recent development in a field that has been growing steadily since the 1970s. What distinguishes Translation Studies from translating is the emphasis on cultural history and the role and function of translation in the broader socio-cultural context.

Canadian Studies teaching in the UK
An overview of the nature and content of Canadian Studies (including Québec Studies) teaching and research in British and Northern Irish universities, with sections on each designated centre, their specialist disciplines and the courses they offer. These are mainly in history, politics, literature, geography, film, and aboriginal studies, often as part of a comparative programme.

New Zealand Studies Teaching in the UK
The content of New Zealand Studies teaching in the UK is outlined in sections covering Literature, Film, Geography, Social Sciences, History, Tourism and Sport. Links to resources available in print and on the Internet are provided.

American Studies

A general overview of the nature and variety of American Studies degree courses in United Kingdom universities, including notes on the differing structures and content of degree courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, opportunities for study abroad and the wide range of resources available for students and lecturers in American Studies.

Russian studies in UK universities
An account of offerings and trends in Russian Studies in the UK at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including a brief history of the field, details of selected modules within key programmes, and of the main centres for study of Russia and the former Soviet Union

French studies in UK higher education
A survey of French area studies teaching in the UK, covering curriculum content, design and delivery.

Australian Studies teaching in the UK
A survey of Australian Studies teaching in UK universities, from interdisciplinary and single discipline perspectives, including history, literature, and the culture of indigenous Australians.

How to be the centre of the universe

Language is central to everything we do; it is what makes us human. This article situates language at the centre of the intellectual universe, showing its relations with maths and medicine, with logic and literature. Whether your interest is in the use of language to determine a suspect's guilt or innocence, the problem of how babies can acquire language and stroke victims lose it, or just how many languages there are in the world, linguistics will give you guidance.

English at A Level - a guide for lecturers in higher education

Gallacher Memorial library
Based on the library of William Gallacher, last Communist Party M.P. in U.K. The library has grown by further donations since his death in 1965. It contains an extensive, wide-ranging collection of material on almost all aspects of the Soviet Union and CPSU including: the Russian revolution; World War II; politics; literature and art.

Glasgow Novel Collection
Extensive collection on Scottish literature. The strength of the collection lies in contemporary material and emphasis has been placed on post-1945 writing. The collection reflects the needs of teaching and research within the University. An Archive on the Glasgow Novel has been established. The archive includes fictional works in which the City of Glasgow is a significant theme.

Latin American Collection
The Latin American Collection was demarcated in the 1960s as part of a failed attempt by Manchester to become a Parry Centre for Latin American studies. It comprises both Spanish/Portuguese and English material classified in the Dewey classes 460-469 and 860-869.

Latin American Collection
One of the most important Latin American library collections in Europe. Holdings total c.80,000 monographs and over 1,600 journals of which about 100 are current. The collection is not housed separately but is integrated into the main stock of the University Library and dispersed throughout it on a subject basis. All items are recorded in the Library's online catalogue.

Rubeo Collection
The Rubeo Collection was purchased from the collector Capitano Giuseppe Rubeo. It consists of some 4000 books, many rare, on a variety of subjects. They include many hundreds of volumes relating to Italian fascism, published during the fascist period itself, which are particularly rare, as such books were usually thrown out and destroyed at the end of the war, by both private collectors and libraries, and are now extremely hard to locate in Italy. Probably the most interesting sub-category here are the many books published in the 1920s and 1930s on the Italian colonies (Libya and Ethiopia). There is also literature, including first or early editions of important literary texts by writers such as Ardengo Soffici, Giovannli Papini, and Giuseppe Prezzolini. The Library is currently seeking funding for the full cataloguing of this collection.

Sprigge Collection
Cecil Jackson Squire Sprigge was chief correspondent for Reuters in Italy during World War II. He had previously been Italian correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, where he was succeeded by his wife Sylvia. The Sprigge collection covers the period c. 1920-1970 and reflects the Sprigges' interest in all aspects of Italian affairs, including the Fascist regime, Vatican politics, post-war reconstruction, art and literature. They also contain material about European politics and diplomatic relations. Printed books from the Sprigge collection were added to the Main Library stock and include material on Italian history, politics and philosophy, as well as a number of guidebooks and pamphlets collected by the Sprigges during their time in Italy. A number of the books are not yet fully catalogued.

Gallacher Memorial Library Collection
The Gallacher Memorial Library is based on the library of William Gallacher, it has grown by further donations since his death in 1965. Major additonal sources of materials on Ireland are donations from the collection of Pat Devine and materials from the CPI.

Cuban Women Writers Collection
The collection was donated in late 2001 by Professor Catherine Davies of the University of Manchester. It consists of literary works by Cuban women writers of the 20th century.

Papers of the Musil Research Unit
A collection relating to the Austrian author Robert Musil, author of Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß and Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften. It comes from the Musil Research Unit, which was run at The University of Reading by Ernst and Eithne Kaiser 1967-1975.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation/CODE Europe Special Collection
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation/CODE Europe Special Collection on Publishing in Africa includes books, reports and other grey literature covering publishing and the booktrade in Africa, plus examples of publishing output. Highlights are materials from the Zimbabwe International Book Fair, titles from the Heinemann African Writers Series and books from African literary projects.