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Experiencing music therapy

Alice Charlton (centre) leads cochlear implantees in percussion work Sarah Hodkinson, our Lecturer in Music Therapy, describes a workshop that allowed students to gain valuable hands-on experience to complement their year 3 music therapy lectures: Music students Alice Charlton, Esme Phillips, and Panos Mathicolonis assisted me in a music therapy workshop at the University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service. The students are well aware of the significance of music. Continue reading →

Centre for Global Englishes seminar: “A Squash and a Squeeze: Timetabling ELF in teacher training courses”

The next Centre for Global Englishes seminar will take place on Wednesday 3 December from 5:00pm – 6:30pm in Lecture Theatre C, Building 65, Avenue Campus. The talk is entitled “A Squash and a Squeeze: Timetabling ELF in teacher training courses” and will be delivered by Dr Martin Dewey (King’s College London), a leading researcher into English as a lingua franca-related pedagogy. Continue reading →

My introduction to GIS

Having wrestled with the open source QGIS package a few weeks ago, my first attempt at modelling Portus in Minecraft, I decided it couldn’t hurt to give myself the introduction to GIS I so sorely needed. By happy circumstance, Esri, developers of the ArcGIS packages had just started a MOOC in conjunction with Udemy. So I signed up for that and, for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been catching up (I started four weeks late) and completing the course. Continue reading →

Selamat datang to Malaysian students of engineering!

Welcome to the group of Malaysian students who have arrived at the University of Southampton for the final two years of their MEng programme in Mechanical Engineering. The students have already completed two years of study at the EduCity@Iskandar, the University of Southampton’s Malaysia Campus. For more information about the students and their studies see this article on iSoton. Continue reading →

CLLEAR Seminar 26 November: Judit Kormos, Lancaster University

Please join us for the next CLLEAR Seminar on 26 November: Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) Seminar The language learning processes of students with dyslexia Dr. Judit Kormos, Lancaster University 5.00-7.00pm Wednesday 26th November 2014, Lecture Theatre C (Avenue Campus) Abstract: Learning another language either in a foreign language context or in a second language environment can prove to be challenging for students with dyslexia. Continue reading →

Italian film showing today: Ciliegine / Cherry on the cake (Laura Morante, 2012)

The Italian film, Ciliegine / Cherry on the cake (Laura Morante, 2012), will be showing in Lecture Theatre A at 6.30pm on Monday 24 November 2014. Review & introduction by Alexa Lorentz Weber (B.A. Language and Society: Italian and Chinese). All welcome! The trailer for this film is available on YouTube. ************************************************* Il film di questa settimana è il primo film come regista dell’attrice Laura Morante. Continue reading →