Our magazine
Our magazine, Liaison is published twice a year and is distributed free to subscribers in the UK. Liaison aims to keep you up-to-date not only with news from the Subject Centre, but also with broader issues affecting the disciplines of languages, linguistics and area studies.
We welcome contributions
Liaison is very much a collaborative effort and we would like to thank all the contributors, whose enthusiasm and generosity have made this publication possible. If you have an idea or would like to write for the next issue - for example an article, a book review, or a letter responding to a piece from this issue - please do get in touch, email: Paula Davis, p.davis@soton.ac.uk
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Issues are available online in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. Printed copies of back issues are available on request by contacting us.
2010
Liaison Magazine issue 5 : July 2010 - Includes articles on: the legal aspects of open sharing; interview with Prof Itesh Sachdev; English as a lingua franca; and a taste of French Creole.
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Liaison Magazine issue 4 : January 2010 - Includes articles on: thriving in difficult times; teaching field linguistics; teaching Hurricane Katrina; and language through sport.
Download pdf: Liaison Magazine issue 4 (pdf, 4.41Mb)
2009
Liaison Magazine issue 3 : July 2009 - Includes articles on: podcasting; an interview with Philip Davies; Gaelic ab initio students; open educational resources; and Bologna.
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Liaison Magazine issue 2 : January 2009 - Includes articles on: residence abroad and employability; teaching early-modern and medieval culture; digital story telling; the experiences of international students.
Download pdf: Liaison Magazine issue 2 (pdf, 2.7Mb)
2008
Liaison Magazine issue 1 : July 2008 - Includes articles on: internationalisation; the privatisation of English for Academic Purposes teaching in British universities; Chicano/a Studies; Arabic Studies; assessment and feedback.
Download pdf: Liaison Magazine issue 1 (pdf, 977Kb)
2007
Liaison issue 12 (February 2007) - Includes articles on: the Dearing Review into Languages; Working with Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs); workshop and event reports.
Download: Liaison issue 12 (pdf, 814Kb)
2006
Liaison issue 11 (October 2006) - Includes articles on: transition from university to work; the Routes into Languages project; international students; the Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning Group and departmental visits.
Download: Liaison issue 11 (pdf, 665Kb)
LLAS Digest 2006 (June 2006) - Includes articles on recent Subject Centre activities.
Download: LLAS Digest 2006 (pdf, 591Kb)
Liaison issue 10 (February 2006) - Includes articles on: transition to higher education; Autumn 2005 event reports; forthcoming publications; Conference 2006: Crossing frontiers: Languages and the international dimension.
Download: Liaison issue 10 (pdf, 1.6Mb)
2005
Liaison issue 9 (October 2005) - The research issue: includes articles on strategies for research, our research projects and pedagogic research.
Download: Liaison issue 9 (pdf, 974Kb)
LLAS digest 2005 (June 2005) - Articles, projects and resources from the Subject Centre. Also includes the Executive summary of The National Languages Strategy in Higher Education report written by Hilary Footitt and commissioned by the DfES.
Download: LLAS digest 2005 (pdf, 2Mb)
Liaison issue 8 (February 2005) - Includes articles on: Strategic subjects and the market; Collaboration in Modern Languages in higher education; The reading project; What does 'international' in HE courses mean?
Download: Liaison issue 8 (pdf, 1.2Mb)
Back issues of Liaison
2004
- Liaison issue 7 (October 2004) (361 Kb)
- Liaison issue 6 (February 2004) (283 Kb)
- Liaison issue 5 (June 2004) (242 Kb)
2003
- Liaison issue 4 (October 2003) (2,410 Kb), includes Occasional papers
- Liaison issue 3 projects edition, (May 2003) (2.3Mb)
- Liaison issue 2 (January 2003) (452 Kb), inlcudes Occasional papers
2002
- Liaison issue 1 (September 2002) (1.4Mb)
[numbering system changed] - Liaison issue 5 (June 2002) (5.2Mb), includes special C&IT Supplement (2.6Mb).
- Liaison issue 4 (January 2002) (2.9 Mb) includes special C2K Supplement (781 Kb)
2001
- Liaison issue 3 (July 2001) (4.95 Mb) includes special Grammar Supplement (1.29 Mb)
- Liaison issue 2 (January 2001) (286 kb)
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