Teaching and Learning
Teaching and Learning
If the period abroad in a degree programme is to be successfully integrated with the rest of the course, it is essential that the students, who in most cases are cut off from the kind of teaching and support they are used to in their home department, should take responsibility for their own learning. That assumes they have been taught how to do so, particularly in the key areas of linguistic and intercultural learning. One of LARA's main concerns has therefore been to prepare teaching and learning materials that show how students can be trained to gain the maximum benefit from their period abroad.
On the language side, courses have been published on Academic Cultural Briefing and Language Tasks and Strategies, both of which link the language course in the year or semester preceding the period abroad with the opportunities for language learning available while the students are abroad.
In the area of intercultural learning, the Introduction to Ethnography for Language Learners shows how an understanding of ethnographical methods can enable students to make controlled and significant progress in their insight into the culture of the society in which they are living.
The course itself consists of nineteen units. On this website, the most frequently asked questions concerning the course are answered:
| A copy of each of the three courses mentioned above has been sent free of charge to each higher education institution in the United Kingdom. Enquiries about further copies should be addressed to lara@sol.brookes.ac.uk |