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*With apologies for cross posting* Registration is still open for the following FREE workshop, organised by the University of Portsmouth and the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS): Workshop: Engaging creatively with modern languages Date: Friday 14th January 2009 Venue: The Octagon Centre, Frenchay Campus, University of the West of England Website: http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/3093 This workshop aims to introduce, on a theoretical and practical level, an innovative model of language teaching and learning which directly engages students' personal identity, agency and creative potential. Two intensive practice-based workshops will be offered. The morning workshop will illustrate the integration of practices adapted from creative writing into modern foreign languages teaching and learning: genres, such as 'list' poems, haiku and acrostics; styles such as anaphora, alliteration and assonance, and novel use of grammatical forms. These will be used by participants to create group and individual pieces. The afternoon workshop is designed as an active introduction to the Japanese language for complete or near beginners, and will enable all the participants to create their own short poems in Japanese. The workshop has the following aims: * To contribute to the decompartmentalisation of languages, linking and further developing task-based language pedagogies, intercultural knowledge, language awareness and grammatical competence. * To offer MFL lecturers and tutors a menu of creative writing activities, task types and exercises at graded level which can then be used flexibly to support their own teaching practice in the language classroom. * To develop MFL students' dynamic use of existing generic competences and linguistic resources in their target language in order to create an original poetic or prose composition. All colleagues, lecturers and tutors in any European or world language are welcome to attend. For a full programme and registration details, please visit http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/3093 The event is organised by Margaret Anne Clarke, and Elizabeth Maldonado under the Subject Centre's "Workshops-to-go" scheme, with support from the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth. --- Dr Shoshannah Holdom Academic Coordinator Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, School of Humanities (65A Crawford Building, Rm 3011), University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ Tel: 02380 599637 Fax: 02380 594815 http://www.llas.ac.uk/