Why study languages - further resources on our website
Papers, articles and case studies
- Enhancing employability: A guide for teaching staff in Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
Author: John Canning, Subject Centre - Researching 'Languages Work': Why don't teenagers pick languages?
Author: Teresa Tinsley, CILT - Widening horizons: Charting progress the Aston way
Authors: Nigel Reeves and Annie Bannerman - Foundation Degrees in Languages
Author: Tim Connell - Storm clouds with a silver lining: New opportunities for language programmes
Author: Tim Connell - Before navigating: Grief and the new landscape for Languages
Author: Alison Phipps - Go forth and multiply: the University of Ulster (UU) experience of extending language provision at Magee Campus
Author: Alvaro Jaspe - Enhancing student awareness of employability skills through the use of progress files
Authors: Dawn Leggott and Jane Stapleford - Widening Participation focus group report
Author: John Canning, Subject Centre - Empty-headed linguists? French undergraduates and learning transfer
Authors: Franoise Close and Mike Fay - A new approach to teaching German as a foreign language at Tertiary level
Author: Sabine Woods - New contexts for university languages: the Bologna Process, globalisation and employability
Author: Jim Coleman - Widening participation in Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies: An overview
Author: John Canning, Subject Centre - State of the Subjects: Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies in the UK today
Author: Michael Kelly - General introduction to modern languages in today's UK universities
Author: Keith Marshall - LATCOF: Lessons from a secondary/sixth-form - HE consultative forum for language teachers
Authors: Jocelyn Wyburd, Elinor Chicken and John Doherty - Multilingualism
Author: Mahendra K Verma - Languages and Foundation Degrees
Author: Tim Connell
Statistics
- UCAS and HESA data on student acceptances for languages
- Employability and graduate destinations
- Employability of language graduates by Keith Marshall
Event archive
- (28 September 2005) Higher Education and the National Languages Strategy
- (11 May 2005) Less Widely Used and Lesser Taught (LWULT) Languages
- (6 May 2005) Promoting languages through cross-sector collaboration
- (6 December 2004) The place of Languages in the curriculum
- (20 February 2004) Extending good practice in Less Widely Used and Less Taught (LWULT) languages
- (21 May 2003) Implications of the HE White paper
- (15 March 2002) Languages Marketing and Recruitment
- (13 March 2002) Area Studies: Developing Marketing Strategies
