Here is an important message from Marie-Noelle Guillot at the University of
East Anglia. I would urge all subscribers to AFLS-NEWS seriously to consider
responding to this request. Colleagues in French have been very active members
of AFLS over the years: among other things, they have hosted an AFLS
conference (in 1998, I think), and provided the AFLS Membership Secretary and
a member of the Publications Committee (in both cases, for several years).
Aidan
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Dear Aidan,
Could you please disseminate the message below to the AFLS list
subscribers? Tahnk you.
Hope all is well for you.
Marie-Noëlle
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Dr Marie-Noëlle Guillot
Lecturer in French
Chair Graduate Studies
School of Language, Linguistics
and Translation Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom
Tel: + 44 (0)1603 592136
Fax: + 44 (0)1603 250599
UEA website: www.uea.ac.uk
You may have heard that the University of East Anglia's Senior
Management
Team has decided to recommend the discontinuation of honours foreign
language provision at UEA and the replacement of its School of Language,
Linguistics and Translation Studies with a teaching only unit which will
offer beginners and intermediary language teaching.
In our view, this removes the prospect of any post-A level foreign
language
provision for school leavers in the East Anglia region, and comes at a
time
of rising costs in higher education which is likely to mean that school
leavers will increasingly be inclined to attend their local university.
It
also comes at a time when Languages at UEA have been forging stronger,
supportive links with the secondary languages education sector in the
East
Anglia region and in adjoining counties, as demonstrated by the year 10
languages day we are holding at UEA on June 23rd.
(See:http://www.llt.uea.ac.uk/admissions/openday.shtml).
We believe that such a closure would have a damaging impact on the
teaching
and learning of languages in East Anglia and nationally. The decisions
about the future of honours language provision have yet to be approved
by
University Senate (June 23) and Council and it would be of considerable
assistance to us if you and any others who wish to support the provision
of
Modern Foreign Languages at UEA, were able to find five minutes over the
next few days to pen a few lines, not necessarily arguing the case for
Honours language provision at UEA, but at least indicating your support
for
the continuation of that provision: and send your letter or email (with
a
copy to us [[log in to unmask]]) to:
David Eastwood
The Vice Chancellor
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ
or
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