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2010
- A request from a faculty colleague: Student study strategies
- The Centre of Excellence in Multimedia Language Learning (CEMLL) Survey
- Call for bids: Education for Sustainable Development
- LLAS student award competition 2010
Victor Benassi, Professor of Psychology, University of New Hampshire is interested in study methods that students report using in preparing for exams and which method they would choose in a specific context. He has received student responses from across the USA as well as from Scotland, England, Australia, Turkey, Singapore, New Zealand, Japan, Ireland, Serbia, Turkey, Wales, Northern Ireland, and France. He would greatly appreciate if you would forward the message below to undergraduate students on the academic courses you teach.
The Centre of Excellence in Multimedia Language Learning (CEMLL) is conducting a survey on the use of multimedia technologies in language teaching as a follow up to the survey undertaken with The Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies in 2006.
The Higher Education Academy’s ESD Project invites applications for the funding of small grants designed to develop small-scale work in the area of interdisciplinarity.
LLAS runs an annual competition for higher education students of languages, linguistics and area studies. This year, students may submit their entry in podcast, vidcast or essay format and the winner will win a cash prize of £300. Full details about the choice of competition topics and assessment criteria are available on our website and the closing date for this year's competition is 31 March 2010. Please advertise the competition to your students. Promotional materials will be available shortly and may be requested by emailing llas@soton.ac.uk
2009
- Happy 10th Birthday LLAS!
- House of Lords debate Languages and Employability
- 02 December Support for departments/schools of Modern Languages
- 02 December Lecturers required to support the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA) in reviewing principal learning qualifications
- 01 December Call for nominations: National Teaching Fellowship Scheme 2010 individual awards
- 29 October Job vacancy: Academic Coordinator for Islamic Studies
- 20 October HEFCE Review of Modern Languages in Higher Education
- 02 October New publication: The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy
- 02 October Invitation to submit proposals to participate in the ‘Discipline-focused Learning Technology Enhancement Academy’ 2010
- 02 October [LAGB) Audit of grammatical knowledge
- 17 September The LAFTAs are back!
- 15 September Making the case for continued central support for languages in UK education, September 2009
- 08 September PG certificate in teaching languages of the wider world
- 08 September Islamic Studies Network online consultation
- 08 September European day of languages 2009 / Journée européenne des langues 2009
- 28 July Intute releases new website
- 23 July National Teaching Fellowship Scheme Projects: Call for bids
- 23 July Teaching and Learning of International Students (TALIS)
- 10 June Review of Modern Languages in Higher Education - Invitation to Heads of HE Modern Languages departments
- 05 June Invitation to tender: Teaching and Learning of International Students (TALIS) Project Director
- 20 April Call for papers: Working With English: Medieval and Modern Language, Literature and Drama
- 31 March Celebrate the success of the Language Box... and win £1000 worth of prizes!
- 20 March Final consultation events on the Diploma in Languages and International Communication
- 06 March Vivian Law essay prize announced
- 04 March Call for contributions: European Journal of Language Policy
- 18 February Multimedia Lab Teaching Awards 2009/2010
- 02 February LWULT SIG meeting cancelled
- 05 January Student Award 2009: winners announced!
We're celebrating 10 years of supporting languages, linguistics and area studies teaching in UKHE. Enter a prize draw to win a free place on one of our events.
Baroness Cousins has won a ballot for a 15 minute speech followed by debate in the House of Lords on languages for employability on 3rd December at 11:30.
2008
- 31 October Survey: philosophical and religious studies ‘beyond boundaries’
- 07 October Funding opportunities
- 30 September Début: The Undergraduate Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
- 30 September Call for papers - special issue of Language Learning Journal
- 10 July Multimedia Lab Teaching Awards 2008-2009
- 03 July JISC digitisation programme invites proposals: Enriching digital resources
- 05 March Report on Multimedia Language Learning in Higher Education in the UK
- 03 March Teaching beginners Latin with text and translation
- 17 January European Award for Languages
- 16 January Reinvention journal launched
2007
- 18 December Student Award 2008: What makes a good lecturer?
- 12 December National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) nominations
- 06 December Prospect/Franco-British Council creative writing prize
- 05 December Nominations for UCML Linguistics Exec vacancy
- 08 November CETL Survey in partnership with LLAS: Multimedia Language Learning in UK Higher Education
- 18 October UCAS figures for 2007 released
- 09 October 'Workshops to Go': Call for Bids 2007/8 - deadline extended
- 09 October Nominations for UCML Exec vacancy
- 12 September LanQua project bid successful
- 09 July Revised benchmarks for languages and linguistics now available
- 08 May Routes into Languages: £4.5 million programme for languages
- 04 May ELAN: Effects on the European economy of shortages of foreign language skills in enterprise
- 29 March CILT draft national standards in translation now available
- 20 March Join the Higher Education Academy professional recognition scheme
- 01 March ebulletin: March 2007
- 28 February Invitation to bid: Projects to improve the quality of the student learning experience and e-learning
- 01 February Archived ebulletin: February 2007
- 31 January Completion of the Pragmatics and Intercultural Communication project
- 04 January Mini-projects: Call for bids
- 01 January Archived ebulletin: January 2007
2006
- 20 December Student Award 2007: What advice would you give to students starting your course?
- 04 December Nominations for new Chair of UCML
- 01 December Archived ebulletin: December 2006
- 27 November Dearing Review into Languages
- 24 November Prime Minister's Initiative for International Education: Pilot Project Awards Scheme 2006
- 07 November Public consultation on British Standard to benchmark good practice in safety management systems (overseas activities)
- 01 November Archived ebulletin: November 2006
- 31 October Call for bids: HE Academy Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning Group
- 04 October Cascading good practice: 'Workshop to go' project, 2007
- 01 October Archived ebulletin: October 2006
- 18 September Good practice capture in incorporating sustainable development into undergraduate courses
- 01 September Archived ebulletin: September 2006
- 01 August Archived ebulletin: August 2006
- 25 July PhD opportunities in Languages
- 13 July Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) services review
- 05 July Archived ebulletin: July 2006
- 20 June Sustainable development on graduate job market
- 07 June Full steam ahead for languages in skills agenda
- 07 June Archived ebulletin: June 2006
- 06 June Centres for Excellence in language-based Area Studies
- 01 June Linking teaching and disciplinary research: Case studies of effective practice in the disciplines
- 22 May Education for Sustainable Development Project: call for grant funding bids
- 16 May Questionnaire on student experiences of using technologies in their studies
- 16 May Internationalisation of the curriculum and support for international students
- 08 May Archived ebulletin: May 2006
- 20 April GCE AS/A levels consultation
- 06 April The ALCS Prize for Low Countries Studies
- 03 April Archived ebulletin: April 2006
- 03 March Archived ebulletin: March 2006
- 03 February Archived ebulletin: February 2006
- 02 February Year abroad survey
- 30 January AHRC-sponsored survey on use of ICT in Arts and Humanities research
- 26 January Study of transition issues between English Language A'Level and undergraduate degrees in English Language and Linguistics
- 24 January Detecting and Removing Obstacles to Foreign Language Teaching Abroad (DROFoLTA)
- 10 January Archived ebulletin: January 2006
2005
- 06 December Multimedia language learning survey and the chance to win an iPod!
- 01 December Call for bids: HE Academy Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning Group
- 01 December Archived ebulletin: December 2005
- 21 November Research review in Modern Languages
- 01 November Archived ebulletin: November 2005
- 14 October Student Award 2006: How does your experience of your course compare with any expectations you may have had?
- 04 October Archived ebulletin: October 2005
- 06 September Archived ebulletin: September 2005
- 01 September Disabled students get new rights
- 31 August Icelanders speak up for languages
- 23 August Strategic Review of MFL in Welsh HEIs
- 23 August BBC's Voices season
- 23 August World's your oyster
- 23 August Foreign assistance: working in a French school for a gap year
- 14 August Languages exam plea
- 08 August Archived ebulletin: August 2005
- 28 July BBC plans soap to teach English
- 13 July Language teaching pilot 'working'
- 11 July Cutbacks in languages at Oxford Brookes
- 09 July Will the Olympics help languages?
- 28 June Struggling courses 'will merge'
- 28 June Archived ebulletin: July 2005
- 24 June Use the Smart Classroom: A Spanish professor tries several tech tools
- 21 June Language learning gains popularity
- 21 June 'Uptalk' becoming standard speech
- 21 June Schools 'teaching 30 languages'
- 07 June e-Tutor of the year competition
- 05 June BBC Radio 4: Textual Evidence
- 01 June Archived ebulletin June 2005
- 06 May Archived ebulletin May 2005
- 03 May e-learning survey: Sharing and reusing electronic resources
- 28 April Open University survey on educational website design and usability
- 25 April Information and Communications Technology (ICT) survey
- 01 April Archived ebulletin April 2005
- 01 March Archived ebulletin March 2005
- 24 February The National Languages Strategy in Higher Education
- 22 February The Times Stephen Spender prize for poetry translation 2005
- 09 February Archived ebulletin February 2005
- 07 February Certification of Language Abilities for International Mobility (CLAIM)
- 27 January Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs) announced
- 24 January House of Lords debate Modern Languages in schools
- 18 January Games help you 'learn and play'
- 12 January Beckham's first interview in Spanish
- 07 January Archived ebulletin January 2005
- 04 January Student Award 2005: What makes the best learning experience for students of Languages, Linguistics or Area Studies?
2004
- 21 December Research projects: Call for expressions of interest
- 21 December Apply for a travel bursary
- 20 December Call for articles/case studies for the Subject Centre website
- 09 December 'Jambo' to open source Swahili software
- 03 December Archived ebulletin December 2004
- 26 November Minister to offer cash for languages
- 24 November Italian degrees under threat at Exeter
- 04 November Fall in compulsory language lessons
- 03 November Archived ebulletin November 2004
- 02 November BBC launches Vocab, an online Welsh translation tool
- 01 November Speak a second language for money, happiness... and sex
- 22 October French outcry over English lessons
- 22 October Languages threat in Scotland
- 21 October Bristol appoints leader for East Asian Studies initiative
- 13 October Learning languages 'boosts brain'
- 01 October Archived ebulletin October 2004
- 24 September 'Fewer pupils' studying languages
- 20 September Atlas: The Area Studies project bulletin
- 16 September Children create new sign language
- 13 September Call for bids: Materials development projects
- 02 September The best and the worst
- 01 September Archived ebulletin September 2004
- 12 August Government backs summer schools to use Olympic themed activities
- 06 August Languages turn students off Europe
- 03 August Mind the gap (year)
- 29 July Why Britons are "language barbarians"
- 16 July Call for proposals: Pedagogic Research Fund 2005/06 (Phase 2)
- 16 July Cascading good practice: 'Workshop to go' project, 2004
- 16 July Call for departments to join UCML
- 16 July Britain worried over decline in Japanese courses at universities
- 16 July Invitation to bid : Guest speaker fund
- 01 July Archived July 2004 ebulletin
- 22 June Times Higher's annual humanities essay writing competition
- 21 June Languages may get higher profile
- 13 June Talking a second language keeps old age at bay
- 11 June Language teaching 'too boring'
- 11 June Anger as exam board drops classics
- 04 June Bristol looks East for new venture
- 03 June UK students look Down Under
- 01 June Archived June 2004 ebulletin
- 14 May MPs reveal language skills
- 01 May The Times Stephen Spender prize for poetry translation
- 01 May Archived May 2004 ebulletin
- 01 April Archived April 2004 ebulletin
- 23 March BBC language programmes, to be discontinued...
- 23 March Director of CILT, job vacancy
- 16 March Rethinking pedagogical models for e-learning
- 01 March Archived March 2004 ebulletin
- 18 February Language students to help army in Iraq
- 16 February Funding for Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs)
- 01 February Archived February 2004 ebulletin
- 21 January House of Lords debate Middle Eastern and Central Asian languages
- 01 January Archived January 2004 ebulletin
2003
- 22 December Autonomous language learning in tandem
- 18 December A new umbrella for the Area Studies community
- 01 December Archived December 2003 ebulletin
- 01 November Archived November 2003 ebulletin
- 15 October What could learning Latin ever do for us?
- 15 October Languages tough out hard times
- 13 October Head teachers call for compulsory languages
- 09 October The language of success
- 02 October Call for manuscripts
- 01 October Archived October 2003 ebulletin
- 30 September Realising the European HE Area
- 30 September Alan Johnson's speech to UUK Conference
- 26 September Anglophone Area Studies
- 15 September European Day of Languages, 26 September 2003
- 01 September Archived September 2003 ebulletin
- 01 August Archived August 2003 ebulletin
- 01 July Archived July 2003 ebulletin
- 24 June Threat to Area Studies at Durham
- 09 June Schools set the trail for a language revolution
- 02 June ECML Call for proposals 2004-2007
- 01 June Archived June 2003 ebulletin
- 06 May BAIS/LTSN Day Conference on 'Irish Studies in the Curriculum'
- 01 May Resources and activities for developing intercultural competence
- 01 May Archived May 2003 ebulletin
- 02 April Launching Atlas: The Area Studies Project Bulletin
- 01 April Archived April 2003 ebulletin
- 18 March Government recognition of BSL as language in own right coincides with publication of Understanding Deaf Culture by Paddy Ladd
- 17 March Call for papers: Teaching across cultures: interdisciplinary thinking and student diversity in an international context
- 01 March Archived March 2003 ebulletin
- 10 February Give us your views on the White Paper
- 05 February Final report of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Committee
- 01 February Archived February 2003 ebulletin
- 31 January Call for papers - Intercultural Learning and the role of Visual Media workshop
- 31 January Invitation to bid for funding for Less Widely Used and Less Taught (LWULT) languages
- 31 January Invitation to bid for funding for Less Widely Used and Less Taught (LWULT) languages
- 31 January Intercultural Learning and the role of Visual Media
- 22 January CERCLES European Language Portfolio request form
- 22 January The Government's White Paper on the future of higher education
- 15 January Interactive Whiteboards
- 06 January DfES press release - National Languages Strategy
- 01 January Archived January 2003 ebulletin
2002
- 20 December PORTAL - Win a £20 Amazon voucher by completing their online survey
- 18 December University of Hull withdraws from partnership with the Subject Centre
- 16 December Consultation: language learning and linguistic diversity
- 11 December Meeting, Launch and Invitation to join the Area Studies Network
- 05 December Event: Personal Development Planning - Thursday 5 December
- 01 December Archived December 2002 ebulletin
- 30 November Linguistics - research training needs questionnaire
- 16 September 'Call for Papers' for a Special Issue of the Journal of European Area Studies
- 04 September Curriculum 2000 workshop - Its impact on admissions policies and the HE curriculum
- 01 August Subject Centre Open Day - 27 September 2002
- 01 August Generic Centre - supporting part time teachers
- 01 August Languages and Employability - A Question of Careers
- 29 May National Teaching Fellowships awarded in Languages
- 16 March EU heads of government commit to two foreign languages in school
- 25 February Paul Meara's Linguistics Question Bank - invitation to contribute
- 22 February Subject Centre Conference: website online
- 20 February ESRC research studentships 2002
- 18 February French Embassy funding available to develop research exchanges and cooperation between France and the UK.
- 11 February Europe tells UK: improve teaching of our languages
- 01 January Bulletin of the Americanisation and the Teaching of American Studies Project (AMATAS) - January 2002 (Jan 02)
- 01 January Phase III Specification for the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme
- 01 January Calling all Literature and Culture specialists!
2001
- 15 August New Socrates website for the UK
- 03 July Languages at Work in 21st Century Britain: time to change attitudes
- 03 July Changing the course of modern language teaching
- 26 June Subject Centre/CILT Conference 2002: Call for papers
- 22 June WorldCALL 2003 conference announcement
- 19 June FDTL/TLTP Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies Project Outputs
- 18 May Official launch of INSPIRA: Linking VLEs and Digital Libraries
- 18 March Postgraduate courses: Bottom of the class but trying hard
2000
- 17 October Language Blind Spots
- 17 October JISC Technology Watch website launch
- 16 October Web Enhanced Language Testing System (WELTS) launched
- 13 October Subject Centre Launch in London
- 14 July British Academy Humanities Review
- 07 July Subject Centre Director in the THES
- 01 July RDN launches Virtual Training Suite
- 01 July Announcement of approval of European Year of Languages
- 01 July Launch of LIAISON
- 01 June Nuffield Enquiry
- 01 June 'Don't just talk the talk'
- 01 June House of Lords Debate Nuffield
- 01 January Internet Resources for Language Teachers and Learners
- 01 January Latest Information on the AMATAS Project
- 01 January Eurobarometer Special Report on Europeans and Languages
- 01 January IBM launches Languages & IT programme
- 01 January DfEE response to Nuffield
- 01 January Responses to DfES Green Paper on extending opportunities and raising standards for 14-19 year olds
- 01 January Join the Club: Community Language Clubs
- 01 January Languages are key to global citizenship
- 01 January New system of Quality Assurance for HE in England
- 01 January Government promises as strategy for languages
