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Next CLLEAR seminar: Aspirations of youth, English for future life plans in a school in Catalonia

The next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar will take place on Wednesday 13th February 2019 at 4pm in Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus (Building 65). The talk is entitled “Aspirations of youth, English for future life plans in a school in Catalonia” and will be delivered by Adriana Patino-Santos from Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton. Continue reading →

Upcoming Modern Languages/CLLEAR seminars

Modern Languages and the Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) are pleased to be hosting a visit from Dr. Elisabet Pladevall Baluster from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in July, who will be offering two seminars focusing on bilingualism and on CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). The first seminar will take place on Tuesday 26th July at 4pm and is entitled “L1 Use and Focus on Form in a co-taught CLIL programme”. Continue reading →

Research grant success for Julia Hüttner

Congratulations to Julia Hüttner who has been successful in obtaining funding for her project “Fallstudien zur Implementierung von CLIL in den Regelunterricht an HTLs” (Case studies on the implementation of CLIL in mainstream education at colleges of technology) which will run for the next 12 months. Julia is co-investigator on the project, which is led by Professor Ute Smit (University of Vienna) and which has been granted €19,457 by the Austrian Ministry of Education and Women. Continue reading →

New ‘CLIL’ MOOC launched

The Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) has launched a four-week MOOC running from 4 May to 8 June 2015 for anyone interested in learning to create content-rich lessons using Clilstore, a dedicated CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) authoring tool. For further details about the MOOC, including a description of its content, and information on how to sign up, visit the UPV website. Continue reading →

British Council event for the European Day of Languages

The British Council is organising an evening event on 26 September on the European Day of Languages to celebrate language diversity and language learning in UK schools. ‘Every learner a language learner, every teacher a language teacher’ will be an occasion for a primary school and a secondary school with outstanding practice in EAL, MFL, CLIL and community languages to share with us their approach and work in these areas and to demonstrate how it greatly benefits their learners. Continue reading →