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Symposium in honour of Professor Michael Kelly

A symposium will be taking place on 20th January 2017 at Europe House, London, in honour of Professor Michael Kelly, who recently retired after a long and distinguished career as Professor of French at the University of Southampton. The day will include a series of talks from colleagues in the field of French Cultural Studies in the morning and a focus on policy and politics in the afternoon. The event is free of charge with lunch and refreshments included. Continue reading →

CGE Seminar 22 April: Professor Andy Kirkpatrick, Griffith University

Centre for Global Englishes seminar Wed 22nd April, 5-6.30pm, Lecture Theatre C English as a Lingua Franca in Asia: Suggestions for ELT/ELF Policy and Pedagogy Professor Andy Kirkpatrick, Griffith University   In this presentation I shall review recently conducted research studies which used data from the Asian Corpus of English (ACE) ACE. ACE is a corpus of some one million words of naturally occurring data of English used as a spoken lingua franca by Asian multi-linguals. 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 →

Recent publications by Professor Michael Kelly

Professor Michael Kelly, Head of Department of Modern Languages, has recently published the following articles: Kelly, Michael, Que peut l’Europe? Comment les décideurs peuvent mieux soutenir l’enseignement des langues, in Formation et professionnalisation enseignante en contexts pluriels,edited by Mariella Causa, Stéphanie Galligani and Monica Vlad, Riveneuve, 2014, 399-413. Continue reading →

CALR lecture tomorrow: The mortality of Hindustani: Can there be an Indian national language?

The next CALR lecture is taking place on Wednesday 27th February 2013 from 5.00 – 6.30pm in Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton. The lecture is entitled “The mortality of Hindustani: Can there be an Indian national language?” and will be presented by Dr Priti Mishra, scholar of language policy in colonial and postcolonial India, from the University’s History department. Continue reading →

British Academy report on the state of languages

The British Academy published its latest report entitled “Languages: The State of the Nation, Demand and Supply of Language Skills in the UK” on 14th February 2013. The publication, based on a survey of UK employers, a wide-ranging appraisal of language policies across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and a synthesis of existing evidence on language skills aims to deepen understanding of foreign language use in the UK and identify key priorities for action. Continue reading →