Languages in Schools
Facilitator: Linda Parker
This workshop will bring delegates up-to-date with the latest developments in languages in secondary schools.

(Co-sponsored by the LLAS Subject Centre)

Subject Centre Showcase
Facilitator: Alison Dickens
This session will present some of the Subject Centre's recent projects and research

Elena Polisca

Promoting less widely taught languages: the outreach experience of FLAGS (Foreign Language Awareness Group for Schools)

Marina Orsini-Jones

Using voice tools and subtitling software to stimulate the acquisition of employability skills while learning Italian (and/or other languages)

Gerry Procter
Asset Languages - a new route to certification in language learning

James Milton

French exams and the CEF

Julie Lawton

Enquiry-based learning: an approach to enhanced independent learning in the Humanities

Bettina Hermoso -Gomez
Online feedback

Jocelyn Wyburd and Ameeta Chadha

"Keep talking"

Sarah Wullink

Widening Participation in Modern Foreign Languages at the University of Nottingham

Linda Parker
Breaking barriers to inclusion

Shirley Lawes and Ana Redondo

Reconceptualising PGCE Modern Foreign Languages: the merits of M-level initial teacher education

Irmgard Wanner
Interactive e-learning modules in language teacher education

Gee Macrory and Angela McLachlan

Bringing modern languages into the primary classroom: investigating effective practice in teacher education

Susan Beigel

A case study of the effects on student attainment, and on retention, of personal development planning (PDP) via departmental mechanisms for improving student learning and through the institutional Progress File

Miranda Van Rossum

The aware language learner: promoting reflection in an online Dutch course at intermediate level

Marina Orsini-Jones

Plans and e-plans: integrating Personal Development Planning (PDP) into the languages curriculum

Maria Fernández-Toro

Using e-learning for self-assessment in advanced productive skills: from essay writing to liaison interpreting

Hélène Duranton and Helen Phillips

Developing online self-access materials for subject specific language courses at an advanced level (SAM Project)

Jonathan Bunt
The Virtual Manchester Campus (VMC): a site and tool for distance learning Independent Language Learning Programmes (ILLP)

Marie-Odile Leconte

Delivering the international agenda; are we as language lecturers the best people to do it?

Danielle Barbereau

Exploring the evolving role of HEI language centres in the context of national and international languages strategies

Miranda Y P Lee
Enhancing employability in the global market - workshops for parallel text drafting

Making a difference: creating demand and attracting students

Facilitator: Adam Gumbley, Euro-RSCG-Riley
This workshop will look at how university staff, both administrators and academics, who work in language departments, can make a real difference in marketing their subject, creating demand, and then working throughout the application process to turn enquiries into current students

Kikuko Shiina and Toru Tadaki
Why Japanese cannot put forward their point of view: Two cultures of literacy

Tim Graham and Alice Oxholm

Exploring the changing attitudes of TESOL teachers to classroom-based research

Del Morgan

Sector, what sector? (An experiment in providing language skills for adults)

Toni Ibarz
Exploring blended language learning in a lifelong learning context

Rose Clark
E-Journals & blogs in Curriculum & Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)

Shu-Mei Hung

Intercultural communicative competence in tele-collaborative foreign language learning

Robert Crawshaw and Julia Harrison
Pragmatic factors affecting communication between language teaching assistants and mentor / responsables' in France and England

Joan Hoggan

Language Assistants: Enhancing the Learning Experience

Embracing languages of the wider world, embracing a world of multimedia: SOAS-UCL CETL and UU CETL

Facilitator: John Gillespie
This session encompasses two presentations and a paper. Each of the Languages CETLs, (Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning), will introduce their general background, aims and projects

Clare McCullagh and Jonathan Smith
On-line tutoring for journal article writing skills: new genres of dialogue?

Annette Duensing, Ursula Stickler, Carolyn Batstone and Barbara Heins

Face-to-face or face-to-screen? - An analysis of tutorial interaction online and face-to-face

Nick Byrne

Tracking new patterns in the uptake of language study at universities across Europe: facts, figures and issues picked up from the AULC surveys and DfES & ENLU projects

Keith Marshall

Constructive collaboration v. cut-throat competition

Cathy Watts

Widening Participation: a case study

Jenny Lewin-Jones and Joe Hodgson

Differentiation strategies for the inclusion of students with severe visual impairment in MFL modules in higher education

Margeret Tejerizo
"To and from Russia - with love?" The changing face of the 'Year Abroad' in Russia since the demise of the USSR

Michael Prosser

The introduction of Chinese onto the curriculum of Spanish engineering students at the Polytechnic University of Valencia

Podcasting

Facilitator: Andrew Grenfell
This workshop will consist of a one-hour introduction to Podcasting (the syndicated distribution of audio or video files across the internet).

Paul Rowlett
A professional body for linguistics: the Linguistics Strategy Group

Liz Hudswell and Paula Davis

Cross-sector collaboration mapping project

Nebojsa Radic
The Junior CULP Project: phase 2

June Clarke and Paul Redhead
I can hear you but I can't see you: the pedagogical implications of web-based synchronous teaching for language learning

John Trafford
The language learning experiences of new teachers of modern languages in England

John Klapper

Supporting the professional development and training of language teachers in higher education

Marina Mozzon-McPherson
Virtual learning spaces as learning communities

Margaret Southgate

Speaking across frontiers - promoting the independent use of synchronous voice conferencing by scattered groups of Open University language learners

Linda Murphy

Language teaching at a distance: establishing key principles to develop professional practice

Christine W L Wilson and Rita McDade

Training the trainers of the trainers: team-working across boundaries to turn a dream into a vision

Sabine Little

The Innovation Exchange project: online collaboration between HE students and secondary pupils

Teresa Tinsley and Alison Dickens
Getting the message across

Christine Leahy
"ICT for ULP" - Principle consideration for the introduction of Information and Communication Technology to university language programme teachers

Christian Fandrych
Academic language competence in Modern Foreign Language degrees. Towards an integrated, bilingual approach

Teresa Tinsley, Ceri James and Joanna McPake
Community languages: responding to 'superdiversity'

Ann Carlisle
Meeting the FCO's strategic language needs - a worldwide challenge

Isabelle Perez and Christine W L Wilson

The team approach to specialist training in Public Service Interpreting and Translating at Heriot-Watt University

Ariane Bogain and Val Thorneycroft

Translation, theory and practice: an interactive approach