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Congratulations to Karima Gaci, Lecturer in French, on the publication of her recent book chapter, in which she discusses an innovative approach to teaching past participle agreements of pronominal verbs in French. Karima explains: In this chapter, I am focusing on the past participle agreement of pronominal verbs in French, which is an inevitable difficulty...
Congratulations to Dr Rasha Soliman, Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics & Deputy Head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, and her collaborator Dr Melissa Towler, Postdoctoral Research Assistant, on their recent publication "Principles and Guidelines for Integrating Regional Dialectal Variation in the Arabic Classroom", in collaboration with Qatar Foundation International! Rasha...
Congratulations to Dr Terry Bradford, Senior Lecturer in French/Translation, on the forthcoming publication of his translation of Clémentine Mélois's novel "Otherwise I Forget" (Liverpool University Press, World Writing in French New Archipelagoes)! Clémentine Mélois is a writer, artist, and member of Oulipo. Her first published work, Cent titres (2014), is a cult classic. She has...
Native-speakerism: A Thorn in the Side of ELT Natalia Fedorova, University of Coimbra Kashmir Kaur, University of Leeds Abstract Native-speakerism, as Kumaravadivelu (2016, p. 82) famously noted, is a subject where “seldom in the annals of an academic discipline have so many toiled for so long and achieved so little”. There have been several...
Congratulations to Kashmir Kaur - Lecturer of English for Academic Purposes - for the publication of her paper entitled 'Embed sustainability in the curriculum: transform the world'. The paper is published in Language Learning in Higher Education: Journal of European Confederation of Language Centres in Higher Education (CercleS) and can be access through this link....
Congratulations to Dr Terry Bradford - Senior Lecturer (in French/Translation) - on his recent publication (by Wakefield Press) of his translation of Boris Vian’s Vercoquin et le plancton. Publisher’s description: A nonconformist satire of both bureaucracy and nonconformism from the French polymath and author of Foam of the Days Written at the age of 23...
Polisca E, Stollhans S, Bardot R, Rollet C. 2022. How Covid-19 has changed language assessments in higher education: a practitioners’ view. In: Hampton C; Salin S (eds.) Innovative language teaching and learning at university: facilitating transition from and to higher education. Research-publishing.net, pp. 81-91. http://dx.doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2022.56.1375 This chapter examines the responses of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to assessment-related challenges introduced by the...
As part of the Arts and Humanities Outreach Team MFL CPD sessions, Isabel Molina-Vidal, Visiting Teaching Fellow in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies will be delivering a webinar titled 'Digital Competence and Digital Tools in the Language Class' on Wednesday 19 October 2022 at 16.00-17.00 (Online). The main aim of this workshop is...
Our Language Centre colleagues Niamh Mullen and Peter Matthews have just had their new MOOC course released through Future Learn. The course aims to help students to understand the importance of active listening and present to them strategies to help improve their listening skills for academic success. This brilliant course is based on their LITE...
Many congratulations to Anne Stazicker and Nancy Woods for their recently published book titled 'Teaching International Foundation Year: A Practical Guide for EAP Practitioners in Higher and Further Education'. The book is published by Routledge and available for pre-order. Table of Contents: 1. The challenges of academic culture 2. Syllabus design 3. Materials development...