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Centre for Global Englishes lecture today

The Centre for Global Englishes lecture on “Interculturality: from being to doing cultural identities” is taking place today, Wednesday 8th May, at 5pm in Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus. The lecture will be delivered by Zhu Hua from Birkbeck College, University of London. The talk aims to explore the main agenda and contributions of Interculturality by addressing the following six questions. 1. Are cultural memberships always relevant to intercultural interactions? 2. Continue reading →

Modern languages staff win students’ union “Excellence in Teaching” awards

At a stylish ceremony held in the Students Union building on 2 May, the outstanding teaching of Modern Languages was recognised at the first ever students’ union “Excellence in Teaching” awards ceremony. James Minney, Principal Teaching Fellow in Modern Languages (French) and now also Associate Dean Education for the Faculty of Humanities, won the overall university award for “Outstanding Lecturer”. Continue reading →

Developing contacts in Thailand

Postgraduate students from Thailand already study at Southampton Humanities Graduate School in some numbers, mostly following programmes in applied linguistics/English language education. Following this trend, a group of 11 lecturers from the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Silpakorn University, Thailand visited the Department of Modern Languages on Monday 22 April. The group included Southampton alumna Dr Sasikarn (Fon) Konsak. Continue reading →

CALR lecture: “Doing ethnography in multilingual schools: Latin American students in Catalonia”

The next CALR lecture is taking place on Wednesday 1st May at 5pm in Lecture Theatre C at Avenue Campus. The lecture is entitled “Doing ethnography in multilingual schools: Latin American students in Catalonia” and will be presented by Dr Adriana Patino. The presentation will focus on the methodological challenges and dilemmas encountered, as well as some relevant findings, in carrying out a collaborative sociolinguistic ethnography in a secondary school in Catalonia. Continue reading →

Free Peking Opera public workshop and concert

The Tianjin Municipal Youth Peking Opera Troupe will be holding a free public workshop and concert, sponsored by The Confucius Institute and Chinese Art Southampton, on Friday 26th April 2013 in the Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton. The workshop will run from 11am-12pm and will be followed by the concert from 1pm-2pm. Peking Opera is a form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics. Continue reading →

Southampton at the SAA Annual Meeting, Honolulu 3-7 April 2013

Recently, the department of archaeology at Southampton made its debut appearance at the Society for American Archaeology annual conference. This year it was due to be held in Honolulu, Hawai’i, which promised to make it one of the best-attended meetings of its kind. Besides the well-publicized size of the SAA meetings and the high esteem in which they are held, Honolulu is a desirable travel destination for very obvious reasons. Continue reading →

Lecture on “Professionalism in language teaching”

Frank Farmer from the University of Quintana Roo in Mexico will be delivering a talk entitled “Professionalism in language teaching” on Thursday 2nd May at 6.00-7.30pm in Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus. The talk aims to stand back from received wisdom on what good language teaching is like, and uses a model of accountable professionalism to guide what should be included in teacher education as well as signalling the need to adjust teaching priorities. Continue reading →