Professor Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French, University of Liverpool and AHRC Translating Cultures Theme Leadership Fellow will be delivering a keynote address at the ILC symposium New Directions for Research in Language and Culture on 6 November 2013. Registration has now closed for catering purposes, but all are welcome to attend the sessions. […]

Professor Andrew Higson, Greg Dyke Chair of Film and Television, University of York, will be delivering a keynote address at the ILC symposium New Directions for Research in Language and Culture on 6 November 2013. Registration has now closed for catering purposes, but all are welcome to attend the sessions. New Directions in Film Studies Research: […]

The Centre for Language, Education, and Acquisition Research (CLEAR, formerly CALR), is holding its next seminar for the academic year 2013/14 on Wednesday 23rd October from 17:00 – 18:30 in Lecture Theatre C, at Avenue Campus. Dr Ying Zheng will present ‘An Investigation into the Writing Construct(s) Measured in Pearson Test of English Academic’

Professor Susanne Ehrenreich, TU Dortmund University, Germany will be delivering a keynote address at the ILC symposium New Directions for Research in Language and Culture on 6 November 2013. For more information or to register please contact Megan Lewis: M.C.Lewis@soton.ac.uk. Intercultural communication via English: Which English? Whose culture(s)? In many international contexts today, the language […]

TNS: Transnational Stories Wednesday, 16th October 2013 4.00pm-7.00pm Venue: 65/1145 Please join us for our first workshop. After presenting their research our two speakers will lead small discussion groups. There will be wine! Professor Marion Demossier Following Grands Crus: Global Markets & Wine The erosion of the ‘natural’ connection between place and culture has taken […]

Workshop: ELF and multilingual practices in professional contexts 7-8 November 2013 University of Southampton Please register by emailing:  elf.ren.workshop@gmail.com English is today recognised as the language of international workplace communication. All over the world, not only in business but also in international organisations, English as a Lingua Franca has become increasingly adopted both for internal […]

The Institute for Language and Culture is holding a one-day symposium to explore ‘New Directions for Research in Language and Culture’ on Wednesday 6 November 2013. The event will include keynote presentations by external speakers, the inaugural lecture of Professor Marion Demossier, an engaging panel discussion and debate about the future of language and culture […]

Anne Kankaanranta from the Aalto University School of Business in Finland visited the University of Southampton on 12-14 March 2013 as part of the ILC’s visiting scholars programme. A video recording of her lecture on ‘Global communicative competence in business: the role of BELF (English as Business Lingua Franca)’ is now available here.

The Centre for Applied Language Research ran a successful half day workshop at Avenue Campus on Wednesday 10 April, introducing c50 PGR students and other interested researchers to a range of digital tools which can support  the study of informal language learning during residence abroad. First of all, Kevin McManus and Nicole Tracy-Ventura (Southampton) gave […]

ILC Visiting Scholars Programme 2012-13: Michèle Baussant Trends and issues of migration flows in the Middle East Tuesday 23 April 2013, 12 pm in 65/1201 Lecture Theatre B Dr Michèle Baussant is a social anthropologist from the University Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense and will be the third visitor in the ILC’s 2012-13 visiting scholars programme. She […]