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Languages mapped: what do people speak where you live?

The 2011 census reveals the main language spoken in 34,753 ‘output areas’ across England Wales, each of 1,500 people. While only 0.3% of the population cannot speak English, 4m people do not speak it as their main language. This map shows the country’s patchwork quilt of languages: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2013/jan/30/languages-mapped-england-wales-census?zoom=11&lat=50.91500386380311&lng=-1. Continue reading →

UCAS application statistics for 2013: languages still in decline

UCAS has published the applications statistics for the 2013 round showing an increase on last year overall. However there is a continued (though slightly reduced) decrease in applications for languages. read more at http://www.ucml.ac. Continue reading →

Is this the best we can do?

A week or two back, a colleague gave me a sample of the QR code panels that are being piloted along the South Downs Way. I was quite excited to see it, because it turned out not to be just a QR code, but also incorporated an NFC chip and a LAYAR augmented reality image. I’m quite dismissive of QR codes, but only because some people get over excited about what is, after all, just another way of inputting a URL into a browser. Continue reading →

Transmitted RTI

Following our successful experimentation with microscopic RTI and multispectral RTI, we develop a transmitted RTI methodology, inspired by transmitted photography, a set-up proposed for conservation documentation of translucent materials, canvas paintings, mounded papyri, photographic material, and works of art on paper or archival material. The transmitted RTI provides an enhanced RTI visualisation, complementary to reflected visible and infrared RTI. Continue reading →

Newly translated publication from Jenny Jenkins

The book by Southampton Global Englishes specialist Prof Jennifer Jenkins “English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity” (OUP, 2007) has just been published in Chinese by the prestigious Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. Continue reading →

FCIR Imaging

The False Colour Infrared (FCIR) is based on the different response of materials in infrared radiation and combines visible RGB colour and infrared imaging. It has been used for materials differentiation and characterization, especially for painted works of art and pigments research. Continue reading →

Winchester Cathedral RTI Community Day

On the 1st February I hosted a community RTI (Reflectance transformation imaging) day at Winchester Cathedral. The day was based around the introduction of this useful technique to the Cathedral guides, the Master students based in the computing research group and the lifelong learning students that have taken recent evening classes at the University. Continue reading →

CALR lecture tomorrow: Learning vocabulary in the L2 classroom: the effects of multimodal input on young learners

The second CALR lecture of the new semester is taking place on Wednesday 13th February 2013 from 5:00-6:30pm in Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton. The seminar is entitled “Learning vocabulary in the L2 classroom: the effects of multimodal input on young learners” and will be presented by Dr Sarah Rule from the University of Southampton. Continue reading →

A new year at Portus

The New Year has begun auspiciously for all those of us involved with the Portus Project and related work. At one level, we are pushing ahead steadily with completion of the post-excavation work that will form the basis of the final reports on the project. In January, we held the first of three planned Workshops at the British School at Rome (BSR). This was organized by Christina Triantafillou and myself and was very well attended. Continue reading →

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