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Modern Languages to host BALEAP PIM on English Medium Instruction

The Department of Modern Languages at the University of Southampton will be hosting this year’s BALEAP Professional Issues Meeting on Saturday 11th June 2016 at Avenue Campus. The event is entitled: EMI in Higher Education: the challenges and the opportunities. This year’s event promises to be a whirlwind tour of Japan, the Sudan, Hungary, France, Spain, Luxembourg, Dubai, Malaysia, Bulgaria and Turkey, not to mention Ireland and the UK. Continue reading →

Visitors from Tomsk Polytechnic University for course in Teaching and Learning through the Medium of English

We are very pleased to welcome a group of 12 academics from Tomsk Polytechnic University who are studying with us for 2 weeks from Monday 16 November 2015 to Friday 27 November 2015. The delegates are participating in a course on “Teaching and Learning through the Medium of English”. The group will be in the Avenue café from 10:45 to 11:15 each morning and visitors are welcome to join them for an informal chat. Continue reading →

Visitors from Tomsk Polytechnic University for course in Delivering Through the Medium of English

We are very happy to welcome a group of 12 academics from Tomsk Polytechnic University who are be studying with us for 2 weeks beginning Monday 12 October 2015 through to Friday 23 October 2015. The delegates will be attending a “Delivering Through the Medium of English” course. The group will be in the Avenue café from 10:45 to 11:15 each morning and visitors are welcome to join them for an informal chat. Continue reading →

CGE seminar tomorrow: “Without English this is just not possible…”: studies of language policy and practice in international universities from Europe and Asia

The next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar will take place tomorrow, Wednesday 18th February 2015, from 5:00-7:00pm in Lecture Theatre C, Building 65, Avenue Campus. The seminar is entitled, “Without English this is just not possible…”: studies of language policy and practice in international universities from Europe and Asia, and will be led by Julia Hüttner and Will Baker from Modern Languages, University of Southampton. Continue reading →

Modern Languages welcomes visitors from Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM)

Modern Languages is pleased to welcome a group of academics from Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM) who will be studying with us for one week from Monday 15 December through to Friday 19 December 2014. The UAEM delegates will be attending a course in “Teaching and Learning through the medium of English” at Avenue Campus. Continue reading →

Modern Languages welcomes new visitors from Tomsk Polytechnic University

Following a recent series of visits from groups of researchers and academics from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Siberia, Modern Languages is pleased to welcome a further group who are participating in a course on “Teaching and Learning through the medium of English” here at the University’s Avenue Campus, from Monday 13th October to Friday 24th October 2014. Continue reading →

English as a Medium of Instruction for International Academics course starts today

A number of PhD students from Modern Languages will be participating in a short course in English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) for International Academics on Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th June 2014 at the Avenue Campus, University of Southampton. The course is designed to support academics whose first language is not English to gain confidence in teaching and researching through the medium of English. Continue reading →