Do you want to…
Make friends from around the world?
Learn about different cultures?
Discover the international side of Southampton?
The WOW Festival team is currently looking for student volunteers to help plan, market and run this exciting event. If you’re interested in taking part in this project, then please use this sign-up sheet.
For more information, like our Facebook page or email us at intercultural@soton.ac.uk
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Thursday 17th December, 9.30 am–12.30 pm; 27/3057, Highfield Campus. Tea & coffee provided.
There is no charge for this workshop.
Target audience: For academic staff and education developers of all disciplines. Maximum of 20 participants. Please register your interest by emailing intercultural@soton.ac.uk with ‘TFS1’ in the subject line. Please include your role, academic unit and faculty. We’ll contact you when we have a confirmed date to check if you would like to attend.
Outline: This half day workshop is for academic staff who work regularly with international students. It will provide opportunities to explore some of the learning and teaching issues which arise in the international classroom and will consider some practical strategies to address them. If you’ve already attended this workshop, but would like to explore written assessment and interaction/group work in more depth, please consider joining Teach for Success 2: Managing Interaction and Assessment in International Student Groups.
What you can expect to gain:
Led by Jill Doubleday, Modern Languages and Alison Dickens, LLAS (Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies) as part of the Intercultural Connections Southampton project.
Jill Doubleday has 15 years’ experience of teaching English to international students and is studying for a PhD in the field of internationalisation of higher education.
Alison Dickens currently directs the LLAS academic development programme and develops and delivers training in a number of areas including e-learning, language teaching and internationalisation.
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Hello again from Caitlin and Nancy!
As you’ll see from the new layout of the website, it’s been a week of big changes! Claire of the Ethnographic Encounters project, who also happens to be a WordPress wizard, sat down with us this week to teach us all about website redesign. Although we’re still in the process of reworking the website, we hope you like the new look and will continue to enjoy the changes we’ll be making and the content we’ll be adding. If you’re interested in having your profile added to our Network page, then please do send us an email at intercultural@soton.ac.uk.
We also had a meeting this week with the University of Southampton’s International Office, which proved to be very insightful. We’re hoping that we can collaborate with Maddy, Maddie and Fraser from the IO team when terms begins to enhance the international experience of students at Southampton.
We’re happy to announce that we’ve also started recruiting volunteers for the WOW Festival this week, and should you be interested in participating, you can register using this sign-up sheet: http://goo.gl/forms/mFa4cSEFKa. We’re looking for volunteers to join our organising team, marketing team and helpers on the day, so if you’d like to be involved, then please do get in touch!
We’ll be updating the website further next week, and, as always, will post another Intern Update on Friday!
