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Centre for Global Englishes seminar: “Chinese university students’ ELF awareness: Impacts of language education in China”

The next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar will take place on Wednesday 14th October 2015 from 5 – 7pm in Lecture Theatre C, Building 65, Avenue Campus. The talk is entitled “Chinese university students’ ELF awareness: Impacts of language education in China” and will be delivered by Dr Ying Wang from Modern Languages at the University of Southampton. Continue reading →

Ethnographic Encounters project website and workshop

The HEA-funded project Ethnographic Encounters: Using the Residence Abroad to Explore other Societies and Cultures, led by Professor Marion Demossier and Dr Lisa Bernasek from Modern Languages at the University of Southampton, has recently launched a website, which includes resources aimed at supporting students with designing and carrying out ethnographic projects during the Year Abroad, and supporting staff with teaching ethnographic methods for language students. Continue reading →

TNS seminar today: ‘Ethnographic Insights into the Superdiverse Language Context of Belize’

Dr Britta Schneider of the Free University, Berlin, will be presenting findings from her current project in Belize at today’s Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) seminar. The seminar will take place at 5:15-6:30pm today, Wednesday 7th October 2015, in Lecture Theatre C, Building 65, Avenue Campus. The seminar title is: ‘Ethnographic Insights into the Superdiverse Language Context of Belize’. Continue reading →

Italian film showing today: La Mafia uccide solo d’estate / The Mafia Only Kills in Summer (Pierfrancesco Diliberto, in arte Pif, 2013)

The Italian film, La Mafia uccide solo d’estate / The Mafia Only Kills in Summer (Pierfrancesco Diliberto, in arte Pif, 2013) (90 minutes, with English subtitles), will be showing in Lecture Theatre A at 6.30pm on Monday 5 October 2015. Review, introduction and discussion by Paola Visconti. All welcome! The trailer for this film can be viewed on YouTube. Continue reading →

Last chance to book your place on Modern Languages evening classes!

Don’t miss your chance to book your place on the new series of Modern Languages Lifelong Learning evening classes, starting next week! We are very excited to be offering 13 languages this year: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English as a Foreign Language, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese. Staff and students of the University are eligible for discounts. To find out more and book your place, visit the Lifelong Learning website. Continue reading →

Cultural Studies and Modern Languages MOOC to be relaunched

The award-winning MOOC ‘Cultural Studies and Modern Languages’ by the University of Bristol goes live for the second time on Monday 12th October 2015. The MOOC, delivered by the Modern Languages department at Bristol, offers a free online introduction to the study of Modern Languages and Cultures, aimed at a sixth-form audience and beyond, and requiring no language other than English to follow it. Continue reading →

Mexico Week 2015

This year’s Mexico Week, organised by MeXsu in collaboration with the student Mexican Society, promises a week of varied and exciting activities and events to showcase contemporary Mexico. These will take place both in the University and across the City, from 27th October to 4th November 2015, in partnership with organisations including the Phoenix Film Society, the City Council, Solent University, Turner Sims Concert Hall and Element Arts. Continue reading →

First ILC research seminar of semester

The first Institute for Language and Culture (ILC) seminar of the semester will take place on Wednesday 30th September 2015 from 4:00-5:30pm in Lecture Theatre C, Building 65, Avenue Campus. At this session, Will Baker, Darren Paffey and Heidi Armbruster from Modern Languages will be discussing the research undertaken during their research leave, as well as sharing tips on the good use of research leave. Continue reading →

Modern Languages launches new eLearning Group

Modern Languages at Southampton has recently launched an eLearning Group, consisting of staff members from across the department with an interest in eLearning and blended learning. The group aims to enable it members to meet on a regular basis, explore how colleagues are making use of online tools in their day-to-day teaching and share best practice in this area. The group has a blog, which presents examples of pedagogic research into blended learning from across the department. Continue reading →

Welcome to our new Modern Languages students!

We welcome all of our new Modern Languages students who have arrived this week for Freshers’ Week! Check out our resource Get Ready for Languages, which aims to guide you to useful information about your life as a Modern Languages student at Southampton. You can read about staff in the Modern Languages department, discover what sorts of things Modern Languages students, past and present, are getting up to, and explore some of the modules you might decide to do. Continue reading →