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This bulletin contains information on the following:
1. SURVEY
1.1 LLAS User survey
2. SUBJECT CENTRE EVENTS
2.1 Pedagogic Methods workshops
2.2 2 Assessment and Feedback in Modern Languages workshops
2.3 Conducting research in English language teaching
2.4 Foundations in Language Testing and Assessment
2.5 A hands on introduction to online education using communication tools
2.6 Less widely taught languages in the UK
2.7 E-Learning Project : call for applications
2.8 Linking, Teaching and Research in Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
2.9 Phonetics Teaching & Learning Conference (PTLC2007)
2.10 Integrating Interdisciplinarity : Learning, Leadership, Life
2.11 Borderlands : Themes in teaching literatures of the Americas
3. SUBJECT CENTRE WEBSITE UPDATE
3.1 New resources this month
4. PUBLICATIONS
4.1 As simple as ABC? - Issues of Transition for students of English Language A Level
4.2 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO : The Language Learning Journal
5. UCML
5.1 Privatisation of language provision
6. OTHER EVENTS
6.1 Language learning no luxury
6.2 CONFERENCE : The power of language
6.3 MEETING : Sustainability Network for the Humanities
6.4 MEETING : Networking day for Humanities careers advisors
7. MESSAGE ON BEHALF OF CILT, The National Centre for Languages
7.1 European Award for Languages
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1. LLAS SURVEY
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1.1 LLAS user survey
LLAS has set up a short online questionnaire in order to learn more about current priorities in our subject communities and to explore ways to serve you better. The questionnaire is short and will only take a few minutes. Please go to : http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=990583620461
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2. SUBJECT CENTRE EVENTS
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2.1 PEDAGOGIC METHODS WORKSHOPS May 2007
The Subject Centre is offering free of charge the following workshops:
Introduction to methods for pegagogic research: Workshop A
16 May 2007, Dundee - details at : http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llaseventitem.aspx?resourceid=2738
Stage 2: methods for pedagogic research: Workshop B
22 May 2007, London - details at : http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llaseventitem.aspx?resourceid=2739
THERE IS A WAITING LIST FOR THIS EVENT
For further details and to register go to: http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llasevents.aspx
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2.2 ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK IN MODERN LANGUAGES, Staff Development Workshop
8 May 2007, CILT, The National Centre for Languages, London
These events are funded under the 'Workshops to Go' scheme
To register and view the programme, please go to : http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llaseventitem.aspx?resourceid=2749
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS BEING REPEATED AT :
ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK IN MODERN LANGUAGES, Staff Development Workshop
27 June 2007, Leeds University Business School
To register and view the programme, please go to : http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llaseventitem.aspx?resourceid=2750
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2.3 CONDUCTING RESEARCH IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
11 May 2007, York St John University
This lecture is sponsored by the Subject Centre's guest speaker fund.
The guest speakers will be Huw Jarvis, Senior Lecturer and Researcher in ELT, University of Salford.
For further information and details on how to register, please go to : http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llaseventitem.aspx?resourceid=2730
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2.4 FOUNDATIONS IN LANGUAGE TESTING AND ASSESSMENT
Friday 25 May 2007, University of Leicester
This is a one-day workshop organised by the School of Education, University of Leicester and the Subject Centre which introduces the main concepts in language testing and assessment.
For further details, go to http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llaseventitem.aspx?resourceid=2751
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2.5 A HANDS ON INTRODUCTION TO ONLINE EDUCATION USING COMMUNICATION TOOLS
30 May 2007, Imperial College London
These events are funded under the 'Workshops to Go' scheme
To register and view the programme, please go to : http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llaseventitem.aspx?resourceid=2767
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS BEING REPEATED AT :
A HANDS ON INTRODUCTION TO ONLINE EDUCATION USING COMMUNICATION TOOLS
1 June 2007, University of Manchester
To register and view the programme, please go to : http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llaseventitem.aspx?resourceid=2768
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2.6 LESS WIDELY TAUGHT LANGUAGES IN THE UK
20 June 2007, University of Wales, Bangor
The conference is organised by the Centre for Galician Studies in Wales, University of Wales Bangor, the Subject Centre for Languages Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS), and the Centre for Information on Languages Teaching and Research (CILT Cymru).
For further details and to register, go to : http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llaseventitem.aspx?resourceid=2762
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2.7 E-LEARNING PROJECT : CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
If you are interested in participating in our forthcoming trial of an e-learning tool developed by the Subject Centre in partnership with E-Languages, University of Southampton, which includes attendance at a workshop to be held on the 21st and 22nd June 2007 at the University of Southampton, please apply using the form at : http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/resourcesitem.aspx?resourceid=2770
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2.8 LINKING TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN LANGUAGES, LINGUISTICS AND AREA STUDIES
Tuesday 10th July 2007, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton
Cost GBP 40 (GBP 20 for postgraduate students)
Keynote speakers:
Clare Mar-Molinero, Head of Modern Languages, School of Humanities, University of Southampton
Alan Jenkins, Westmininster Institute, Oxford Brooks University
Registration is now open for this event. A provisional programme is available at: http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llaseventitem.aspx?resourceid=2618
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2.9 PHONETICS TEACHING & LEARNING CONFERENCE (PTLC2007)
24-26 August 2007, University College London
The conference is organised jointly by UCL, The University of Westminster and the Subject Centre for Language, Linguistics and Area Studies.
Please note that the deadline for paper submission has been postponed to 1st June. Follow the paper submission link for further details.
News: Submissions from undergraduate or postgraduate students of phonetics are invited. Four bursaries sponsored by the Subject Centre are available. Follow the Student presentations link on the PTLC website for more details.
For more information and to register go to: www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/ptlc/index.html
OR alternatively go to : http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llaseventitem.aspx?resourceid=2769
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2.10 INTEGRATING INTERDISCIPLINARITY : LEARNING, LEADERSHIP, LIFE
10-11 September 2007, Clare College, Cambridge
GBP 120 (consessions and day rates are also available)
This second conference organised by the Higher Education Academy Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning Group will address issues of interdisciplinary teaching and learning from a variety of perspectives, including the student experience, institution leadership, local initiatives and national agendas.
For further details and to register, go to : http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llaseventitem.aspx?resourceid=2748
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2.11 BORDERLANDS: Themes in teaching literatures of the Americas
18 October 2007, University of Birmingham
CALL FOR PAPERS : This is a joint event between LLAS and the English Subject Centre.
For full details go to : http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llaseventitem.aspx?resourceid=2760. Please submit an abstract (150-200 words) to John Canning: [log in to unmask] by 31 May 2007.
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3. SUBJECT CENTRE WEBSITE UPDATE
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3.1 NEW RESOURCES THIS MONTH
Conference Presentation Videos: E-languages conference
Three seminar videos from this event held in February 2007 at Southampton University are now avaliable on our website at:
http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/llaseventarchiveitem.aspx?resourceid=2654
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4. PUBLICATIONS / JOURNALS
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4.1 AS SIMPLE AS ABC? - Issues of Transition for students of English Language A Level
by Angela Goddard & Adrian Beard
To download your free copy please visit: http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/resources/transition/report.php
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4.2 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO : The Language Learning Journal
Colleagues might be interested to learn that The Language Learning Journal of the Association for Language Learning is now being published by Taylor & Francis.
The journal provides a forum for scholarly contributions on current aspects of foreign language learning and teaching in all phases and contexts of formal and informal education. It is a peer-reviewed journal, written in English, that is intended for an international readership, including foreign language teachers, language teacher educators, researchers and policy makers. Target languages are usually, but not exclusively, those of mainland Europe and 'community languages'.
Areas of interest include: relationships between policy, theory and practice; pedagogical practices in classrooms and less formal settings; multiculturalism and multilingualism etc.
The editors invite contributions on the above themes as well as approaches about themed Special Issues; please e-mail [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
Details for prospective contributors are available at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09571736.asp.
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5. UCML
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5.1 PRIVATISATION OF LANGUAGE PROVISION
Pam Moores, Chair of UCML has recently written to the Minister Bill Rammell and also to Diana Warwick at UUK to express concerns about the privatisation of language learning operations in universities across the UK, and the out-sourcing of international recruitment through companies such as Kaplan, Into, and Study Group International. Members of UCML had raised concerns about this being the thin edge of the wedge, and the prospect of possible knock-on effects on MFL.
Here is an extract of Bill Rammell's response
"Modern foreign languages are considered to be strategically important and vulnerable, and if the University Council of Modern Languages has any hard evidence that the use of outside companies is having an impact on core language provision and on institution wide language provision, both the Department and HEFCE would be interested in seeing such evidence."
If you know of any institution where there is evidence of such an effect, please can you email the details to [log in to unmask]
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6. OTHER EVENTS
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6.1 LANGUAGE LEARNING NO LUXURY
14 May 2007, The British Academy, London
A British Academy evening discussion, following Lord Dearing's Languages Review, with Professor Dick Hudson, FBA, University College London, Professor Mike Kelly, University of Southampton and Professor Haun Saussy, Yale University.
Further details, programme and information on how to register for this event can be found at : http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/bulletin/bulletin-languages07.html
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6.2 THE POWER OF LANGUAGE
23 May 2007, University of Stirling, Stirling Management Centre
This conference is being organised by Scottish CILT / Goethe-Institut. Further details, programme and information on how to register for this event can be found at : http://www.scilt.stir.ac.uk/Conferences/ForthcomingConferences/Index.htm
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6.3 NEW DATE: THE FIRST MEETING OF THE SUSTAINABILITY NETWORK FOR THE HUMANITIES
There have been numerous expressions of interest in the Sustainability Network for the Humanities, but many have been unable to make the date of the proposed first meeting. In order to get the broadest range of input from disciplines across the humanities, we have decided to postpone the date of the first meeting until 6th June 2007 (venue in London to be confirmed). For further information contact Karina Croucher ([log in to unmask])
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6.4 NETWORKING DAY FOR HUMANITIES CAREERS ADVISERS
20 July 2007, Goodenough College, London
The English Subject Centre, in collaboration with other humanities Subject Centres and their AGCAS 'buddies', is convening a second meeting for HE Career Advisers with an interest in the humanities.
More information is available at : http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/events/event_detail.php?event_index=158
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7. MESSAGE ON BEHALF OF CILT, The National Centre for Languages
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7.1 EUROPEAN AWARD FOR LANGUAGES
The CILT server was down at the weekend and they fear that some bids for the European Award for Languages may have been lost. If you submitted an application for this Award between 27 and 30 April please resubmit it to CILT.
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We would be grateful if you would forward this bulletin to colleagues and relevant mailing lists. Please do not hesitate to contact the Subject Centre if you have any queries regarding this bulletin.
Sue Nash
Senior Administrator
Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies School of Humanities
University of Southampton
SO17 1BJ
Tel: 023 8059 4814
Fax: 023 8059 4815
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