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ILC celebrates REF results

The ILC (combining Modern Languages and Film) celebrates attaining the fifth best research quality rating in UK Modern Languages and Linguistics http://www.southampton.ac.uk/ml/news/2015/01/fifth_best_research_quality_rating_ref_2015.page Modern Languages at Southampton are ranked as fifth in the UK for the overall quality of our research out of 57 submissions nationally for Modern Languages and Linguistics. Continue reading →

Future Modern Languages students visit the University today

Around 70 potential future Modern Languages students will be visiting the University today, Tuesday 20 January 2015 for a Year 12 Languages Study Day, run by Modern Languages at the University of Southampton. The event is for Year 12 students who are thinking about studying languages at university. There are sessions on cultural topics, grammar and speaking in French, German or Spanish, plus the chance to do a taster class in a new language and attend a talk on languages and careers. Continue reading →

Modern Languages PhD students published in special issue of SiSAL Journal

Two of our Mexican Modern Languages distance PhD students, Ma. De Lourdes Rico-Cruz and Magdalena Ávila Pardo, have contributed to a recently published special issue of SiSAL (Self-Regulation in Foreign Language Learning) Journal, with an article entitled ‘Self-Regulation within Language Learners’ Dialogues’. To read this article and others from this special issue, visit the SiSAL Journal website. Continue reading →

Narrative Structure and Games – Backstory?

I’ve started writing up my literature review. And that has sent me back to the literature itself, to try and make head or tale of the cryptic comments I made to myself when I read it the fist time. Take for example Barry Ip’s two part article in Games and Culture, Narrative Structures in Computer and Video Games. Ip offers, in part one, his own pretty complete literature review of story in games. Continue reading →