Hello Colleagues
I am writing with a request. Cardiff University, as you know - like all HEIs in Wales, is officially a bilingual institution. What this means in practice is that a number of courses are offered through the medium of Welsh. Students, regardless of whether or not they are taught through the medium of Welsh, are also able to submit their coursework and undertake examinations in the Welsh language.
All of our participants on the PgCHE experience the Welsh language as an academic medium (through simultaneous translation) which has proved a positive and enriching experience. We have observed staff, who previously have not used their Welsh language skills in an higher education setting, begin to do so. Feedback from participants suggests that having access to a bilingual glossary would encourage more of them to use Welsh when working with students. There have been a number of projects, sponsored by the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, which helped in the compilation of Welsh medium discipline-specific glossaries but here at Cardiff we don’t have such a resource for commonly used education terms.
So, I’m wondering do you know of any institution has a similar resource that it could share with us? Alternatively, if you would like to contribute to the creation of such a resource then please do get in touch. Suggestions on how to best make this an open resource would also be most welcome. Please send any messages off list. I’d be happy to share feedback with this list at a later stage. Thanks.
Cath
Programme Leader: PgCUTL
Cardiff University
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