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Aims to show-case new training provision, techniques, technologies, methodologies, research in language teaching, emphasis on the advanced, research-focussed learner. Emphasis on Languages of the Wider World: Africa, East/South Asia, Russia, Central Europe, the Arab World.
The conference aims to show-case new training provision, techniques, technologies, methodologies and research in language teaching, with an emphasis on the advanced or research-focussed learner. Particular emphasis will be on the Languages of the Wider World: Africa, East and South Asia, Russia, Central Europe, and the Arab World.
The conference aims to show-case new training provision, techniques, technologies, methodologies and research in language teaching with an emphasis on the advanced or research-focussed learner.
We live in a world containing a myriad of different cultures, where clear and effective communication is increasingly important in international cultural, economic, political and social relations, and where facility with foreign languages can have a major impact upon the success of a business, an individual, or a nation. The conference aims and show-casing new training provision, techniques, technologies, methodologies and research in language teaching, with an emphasis on the advanced, or research-focussed learner. The main focus of the conference is Languages of the Wider World: Africa, East and South Asia, Russia, Central Europe, and the Arab world.
Major conference themes are:
Assessment: methodologies and comparisons
Benchmarking: standards for higher study
Cultural Competence: teaching text, discourse, rhetoric and skills
Generational Change: new approaches for the information age
Language for Research: training for the social sciences and humanities
Materials and Curriculum Development: from ab initio to advanced, from paper to screen
Outreach: training the policy or business learner
Research in a global context
The conference is jointly organised and supported by the five UK Centres of Excellence in Language-based Area Studies (White Rose East Asia Centre, British Inter-University China Centre, Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World, Centre for East European Language-Based Area Studies, Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies), the Subject Centre for Language, Linguistics and Area Studies, and the Languages of the Wider World Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
Speaker(s): |
Professor Anne Pauwels | talks |
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Date and Time: |
1 September 2010 at 9:30 am |
Duration: | Full Day |
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Venue: |
The Edge - University of Sheffield |
Organised by: |
Centre for LLAS Languages Linguistics and Area Studies |
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Tickets: |
2-day package |
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There is a charge of £80 full rate and £40 discounted rate for students and unwaged (for payments made by 15th July 2010). |
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