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Kate Borthwick receives Vice-Chancellor’s Award

Kate Borthwick from Modern Languages at the University of Southampton has received an individual award for internationalisation as part of the 2016 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards. The awards celebrate exceptional contributions made by colleagues in the areas of collegiality, quality, internationalisation and sustainability. Receiving her award, Kate said: “This is fantastic and I am really honoured to receive this award. Continue reading →

Modern Languages staff receive teaching award

Modern Languages’ Carmen Martín de León and Cristina García Hermoso have been awarded second place for best Spanish teachers of the year, in the international congress, IV Congreso Internacional del Español en Castilla y León. The innovative teaching project they presented, which was also praised by our Stage 5 students this academic year, was based on Carmen’s published book series, El Mundo de Custodio. Continue reading →

Modern Languages PhD student wins CALICO Outstanding Graduate Student Award

Modern Languages PhD student and lecturer at Umm AlQura University in Saudi Arabia, Sahar Alzahrani, received the CALICO Outstanding Graduate Student Award at this year’s Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) Conference, which took place from 10-14 May 2016 at Michigan State University in the US. This award is presented annually at the conference in recognition of academic and research achievements in the area of CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning). Continue reading →

Modern Languages PhD student receives British Council Assessment Research Award

Modern Languages PhD student, Maria Georgina Fernandez Sesma, has been successful in obtaining this year’s British Council Assessment Research Award. Maria is currently in the second year of her PhD and is researching the topic: ‘Blended Learning: Assessing EFL Teachers and Students’ Use of and Perceptions toward Learning Technology’, under the supervision of Dr Ying Zheng. Continue reading →

Modern Languages PhD student wins award for best-researched poster

Modern Languages PhD student Sahar Alzahrani received an award for the best-researched poster at the Learner Autonomy Special Interest Group (LASIG) Conference 2016 in Antwerp, Belgium, which took place from 3-4 March 2016. Her poster was entitled ‘A framework for the development of language learner autonomy in a blended language course at university level’. Continue reading →

E-Learning Excellence Award for Prepare for Success

Julie Watson from Modern Languages, has been awarded an e-Learning Excellence Award for Prepare For Success, the web-based transition tool for international students coming to study in the UK. The competition for the awards was conducted by Academic Conferences and Publishing International (ACPI). The call for the competition, announced in 2014, attracted 70 submissions from the university environment, business or industry, government departments or schools. Continue reading →

Vote for this year’s public language champion

The Guardian is asking the public to vote for an individual in the public eye who they think best champions language education for the second year of its Public Language Champion Award. The award, launched in partnership British Academy, aims to recognise a public figure who has demonstrated commitment to and passion for the importance of language in British society. To read more about the award, and find out about last year’s nominees, visit the Guardian website. Continue reading →

Do you know any inspirational language champions?

Nominations are now open for the 2014 Threlford Memorial Cup, an award presented annually by the Chartered Institute of Linguists Educational Trust for a significant contribution to ‘fostering the study of languages’. The Cup can be awarded to a person, organisation or project that deserves to be recognised within the field of language study. The deadline for nominations is Friday 5 September, and the IoLET Awards Evening is to be held at the Barbican, London, on Thursday 6 November 2014. Continue reading →