Subject Centre publications
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Liaison
- Our magazine, Liaison, is published twice a year and is distributed free to subscribers in the UK. Liaison aims to keep you up-to-date not only with news from the Subject Centre, but also with broader issues affecting the disciplines of languages, linguistics and area studies. If you would like to subscribe, please complete the online mailing list form.
Our ebulletin
The monthly Subject Centre e-bulletin gives information on events, news items and newly available resources. Join our mailing list if you would like to receive future monthly e-bulletins.
Event reports
The archived event reports section of the website contains details about, reports on, and supplementary materials from the events we have hosted.
Archived publications
- Collaboration in Strategic Subjects: the lesson of Modern Languages: final report
- Student award 2005: What makes the best learning experience for students of Languages, Linguistics or Area Studies?
- Subject Centre 2004 Conference proceedings
- Fact sheets: studying Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies at university
- Subject Centre 2002 Conference proceedings
- A new Landscape for Languages
- LLAS Notes
- IALIC/Subject Centre 2003 pedagogical forum papers
- Marketing languages - The Languages Box
Administration
- Subject Centre Advisory Board
- Subject Centre Partnership and Development Group
- Southampton Advisory Group
- Strategy documents
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Subject Centre publications
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Recent publications
Supporting international students in UK Higher Education: a course for staff - 978-1-905788-86-6
January, 2009This pack is designed to be used by teaching and support staff in HE institutions who wish to better understand the needs of international students and improve the ways in which they can be supported on both a personal and institutional level. It encourages teachers and support staff in higher education to reflect on their own practice regarding support for international students, and suggests ways in which support for such students can be improved and embedded within the context of their own higher education institution.
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A changing world: the internationalisation experiences of staff and students (home and international) in UK higher education - November, 2008
Much has been written about the internationalisation of higher education (e.g. Knight, 2008; Caruana & Spurling, 2007), and international student numbers have increased greatly in the UK with the Prime Minister's Initiative (PMI, 1999 & PMI 2, 2006) being one of the main driving forces for recruitment (Trahar, 2007). This project was instigated because a need was felt by the Subject Centre Network and the Higher Education Academy to hear from the ground, how staff and students viewed internationalisation and to explore how an internationalised curriculum might look from the perspective of different disciplines. Fifteen focus groups were run with staff and with students, both home and international, to listen to their views on what internationalisation meant to them, how it had influenced teaching and learning, and what challenges and successes they had experienced. Participants came from a range of disciplines and from across the UK.
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Five years on: The language landscape in 2007- 978-1-905788-67-5
April, 2008In 2002, the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies was commissioned to investigate the health of modern languages in schools and universities. Published as A New Landscape for Languages , the report offered possibilities for how the language landscape might look in 2007. Using the most recent statistics, Five years on revisits the report and compares the actual landscape with those thought possible five years ago.
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Interdisciplinary reports - November, 2007
A series of reports commissioned by the Higher Education Academy's Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning Group.
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Here be dragons?: enterprising graduates in the Humanities - 978-1-905788-43-9
September, 2007This report presents the findings of a small-scale study of enterprising humanities graduates, determining the circumstances and motivations leading to them embarking on careers. Graduates from humanities disciplines are often perceived as having more ambiguous (or at least less-defined) career paths compared with those graduating from vocational subjects, such as law or medicine. Having a more open avenue offers a range of career opportunities, including branching out and setting up a business, or becoming self-employed, either through choice, necessity, or fortune. Those disciplines collaborating in this project (Archaeology, Classics, Languages, Linguistics, English, Ancient History and Art History) were thought to be especially exposed to such situations.
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Hard going but worth it: a snapshot of attitudes to reading among languages undergraduates - 1-905788-09-6
July, 2006This report presents the findings of a questionnaire survey into attitudes to reading among languages undergraduates in seven UK universities. The survey set out to elicit information on students’ pre-university experience of reading in the foreign language; their attitudes to reading in both their first language and the foreign language and the difficulties experienced with foreign language reading. 601 questionnaires were returned by students of Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic and Russian. Conclusions and recommendations in the report focus on improving transition into higher education; paying attention to the learning experiences of ab initio students; raising awareness of strategies and promoting more extensive reading.
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Outreach in Modern Languages: a DfES funded report mapping cross-sector collaboration - 1-905788-10-X
July, 2006This report presents the findings of a DfES-funded mapping project into cross-sector collaboration between universities and schools in England. Its many examples of good practice and detailed case studies will be a useful resource for higher education staff and school teachers involved in language outreach activities.
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A wider perspective and more options: investigating the longer term employability of humanities graduates- 0-9541709-3-8
March, 2006Understanding what graduates do after leaving university has mainly depended upon statistics collected six months after graduation. A wider perspective and more options is based on in-depth interviews with humanities graduates from the 1970s onwards and captures something of the diversity of career paths followed by graduates in so-called ‘non-vocational’ disciplines. The report will be a valuable resource for lecturers and careers advisors seeking to help humanities students prepare for life after graduation. The research was funded by the Higher Education Academy. It is a partnership of the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, the Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology and the English Subject Centre.
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Why study languages? A resource for teachers and students - 1-904190-95-2
January, 2006Understanding what graduates do after leaving university has mainly depended upon statistics collected six months after graduation. A wider perspective and more options is based on in-depth interviews with humanities graduates from the 1970s onwards and captures something of the diversity of career paths followed by graduates in so-called ‘non-vocational’ disciplines. The report will be a valuable resource for lecturers and careers advisors seeking to help humanities students prepare for life after graduation. The research was funded by the Higher Education Academy. It is a partnership of the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, the Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology and the English Subject Centre.
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Lingua: Opening the door to language learning: bringing language learning to the wider community - 1-904190-71-5
June, 2005The Opening the Door to Language Learning (OdLL) Project aimed to encourage organisations delivering language learning (universities, colleges, schools, publishers, businesses) to develop initiatives whereby their materials and expertise could be made available to a wider and different set of learners. The OdLL Project consisted of three phases, the first two being devoted to trialling and evaluating open learning models in seven European countries (Belgium, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom). The third phase consisted of evaluating these models and compiling a guide to good practice in promoting language learning, of which the handbook is a key element.
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700 reasons for studying languages - 1-904190-66-9
April, 2005This report describes new research carried out by the Subject Centre and identifies more than 700 reasons for studying languages. This research will be particularly useful for educators, especially those encouraging students to continue with languages. You can receive a free 700 reasons classroom poster by signing up to the Routes into Languages mailing list.
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Humbox
The Humbox is a humanities teaching resource repository jointly managed by LLAS.
