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Developing contacts in Thailand

Postgraduate students from Thailand already study at Southampton Humanities Graduate School in some numbers, mostly following programmes in applied linguistics/English language education. Following this trend, a group of 11 lecturers from the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Silpakorn University, Thailand visited the Department of Modern Languages on Monday 22 April. The group included Southampton alumna Dr Sasikarn (Fon) Konsak. Continue reading →

CALR lecture: “Doing ethnography in multilingual schools: Latin American students in Catalonia”

The next CALR lecture is taking place on Wednesday 1st May at 5pm in Lecture Theatre C at Avenue Campus. The lecture is entitled “Doing ethnography in multilingual schools: Latin American students in Catalonia” and will be presented by Dr Adriana Patino. The presentation will focus on the methodological challenges and dilemmas encountered, as well as some relevant findings, in carrying out a collaborative sociolinguistic ethnography in a secondary school in Catalonia. Continue reading →

Free Peking Opera public workshop and concert

The Tianjin Municipal Youth Peking Opera Troupe will be holding a free public workshop and concert, sponsored by The Confucius Institute and Chinese Art Southampton, on Friday 26th April 2013 in the Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton. The workshop will run from 11am-12pm and will be followed by the concert from 1pm-2pm. Peking Opera is a form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics. Continue reading →

Lecture on “Professionalism in language teaching”

Frank Farmer from the University of Quintana Roo in Mexico will be delivering a talk entitled “Professionalism in language teaching” on Thursday 2nd May at 6.00-7.30pm in Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus. The talk aims to stand back from received wisdom on what good language teaching is like, and uses a model of accountable professionalism to guide what should be included in teacher education as well as signalling the need to adjust teaching priorities. Continue reading →

Anne Kankaanranta lecture recording now available

Anne Kankaanranta from the Aalto University School of Business in Finland visited the University of Southampton on 12-14 March 2013 as part of the ILC’s visiting scholars programme. A video recording of her lecture on ‘Global communicative competence in business: the role of BELF (English as Business Lingua Franca)’ is now available here. Continue reading →