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Southampton Language Exchange event this week!

Modern Languages and Erasmus students may be interested in joining the first social event organised by the Southampton Language Exchange this Tuesday 27th September from 7pm-10pm in the American Bar (SUSU Building on Highfield Campus). Every Tuesday over 100 people from all over the world get together at these social events to practise their languages and make new friends. Students are invited to chat and socialise in a different language and help others practise the languages they speak. Continue reading →

Welcome to our new Modern Languages students!

We welcome all of our new Modern Languages students who are arriving this weekend 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 →

Professor Roumyana Slabakova to give Inaugural Lecture

Professor Roumyana Slabakova, Chair of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) in Modern Languages at the University of Southampton will be giving her Inaugural Lecture on Thursday 27th October 2016 at 18:00 at the University’s Avenue Campus. The talk, entitled ‘The Bottleneck Hypothesis of Second Language Acquisition’, will discuss second language acquisition as a cognitive process. Continue reading →

New Italian film season launching soon!

Modern Languages’ new Italian film season will begin on Monday 10th October 2016 with a showing of Il segreto di Santa Vittoria (Stanley Kramer, 1969) in Lecture Theatre B, Avenue Campus, at 6:30pm. The autumn season promises an inspiring selection of films covering different genres and subject matters, mostly fairly recent but also including a few great films of the past. Continue reading →

An exciting year ahead!

As the summer moves into the busy autumn ahead, we wanted to give a quick taster of some of the exciting events within the department over the coming months – here’s a summary of just a few: • Freshers’ Week starts on Monday 26th September, and returning students will be back from 3rd October • Visit days for applicants will be running throughout autumn and spring • There will be a new Italian Film season starting in the autumn • The SoGerman Festival will... Continue reading →

‘Understanding Language: Learning and Teaching’ MOOC to be relaunched in October

Modern Languages at Southampton will be relaunching the University of Southampton MOOC, ‘Understanding Language: Learning and Teaching’ on Monday 17 October. This four-week course introduces participants to the field of second language learning, considering language classrooms and the role of teaching in language learning, and exploring the uses of technology in teaching. Continue reading →