AULC (Association of University Language Centres) conference
held at Durham University Thursday - Friday January 2013
Programme of the conference here
A few images from here
ONLY HAVE THREE MINUTES? Check out what Carolin, the new Librarian of Leeds University Language Centre has done on her blog, with a list of useful links
First talk was from David Cowling (Durham University), Professor of French, Director of the Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Chair of Language Provision Task and Finish Group (2011-12)... (Yes, he said it himself, he's got the longest job title ever!) Interesting to see that the British Sign Language is taught here at Durham (and I am happy we have resources here at our Language Centre for this language) Durham University recommends that all students should have possibility to study a foreign lang during their study, barriers removed.
Next was the update talk from CercleS the European Confederation of Language Centres in Higher Education. Why's and therefore's of CercleS
Members of CercleS have free-access to the new CercleS journal Language Learning in Higher Education
CercleS wants to encourage more online communication by making the most of web 2.0 technologies: more social networking,online meetings, possible Moodle platform, repository of teaching materials.
John Morley (Manchester University) Report on IWLP (Institution-Wide Language Programmes) survey results: 62 HEI took part including 20 from Russell Group. Most popular languages were Spanish and French followed by German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese. Real growth in Chinese and Arabic (as I do admit I have noticed in the library usage and demands). Very good question in the audience about independant language learning It is not in the data but really should be taken into account.
Teresa MacKinnon (Warwick University) presentation The context for collaboration in language learning.
David Dual (Durham University) reflexion on the project of cross-border collaboration between students at Durham and at Douai. "students in the project liked the fact of "not being judged" and feeling "comfortable" speaking with other students.
Blackboard Collaborate as alternative to Skype as there were several problems with Skype. The programme worked well, good collaboration between the students at Durham University and at Douai Ecole des Mines, also because they were working in the same field (engineering).
T. MacKinnon (Warwick University) experience of using google chromebooks for language learning. Usefull because Google Chromebooks have automated updates, there's also a secure domain on google apps for education. On one lesson she asked students to describe themselves in French, and therefore trying to guess who in the classroom they were communicating with. The presentation is available on slideshare
Sybille Nalezinski (UCL) talk on Nanogong the voice recorder-to-go that can be integrated in a VLE (it works with Moodle so surely it could work with Weblearn, our VLE at Oxford? For the Tutors to try). It's an open source and a great system because the students can record their voice. Students sometimes find speaking difficult in class as there is not much time and you can get shy.
Alison Dickens (LLAS) spoke of the FAVOR project between five universities in order to create open education resources. 18 languages are included and all is free to download. This is the Language Box
Steven Fawkes (Association of Language Learning) mentions the fact that in Europe, multi-lingualism is at the heart of policies... here, it's another story.
We started looking at old English expressions, "Hope I don't get dashelled on my way to drury lane after crotch-trolling this weekend!" on twitter from @ThSnl
Fascinating French and Russian lesson from @stevenfawkes (on twitter). If we are not good at remembering words, visual can help (we also learn French and Russian with a simple body language), if not still, the music can help.
Next conference in Dublin 9-10 January 2014 at University College Dublin and the year after Cambridge!
Programme of the conference here
A few images from here
ONLY HAVE THREE MINUTES? Check out what Carolin, the new Librarian of Leeds University Language Centre has done on her blog, with a list of useful links
First talk was from David Cowling (Durham University), Professor of French, Director of the Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Chair of Language Provision Task and Finish Group (2011-12)... (Yes, he said it himself, he's got the longest job title ever!) Interesting to see that the British Sign Language is taught here at Durham (and I am happy we have resources here at our Language Centre for this language) Durham University recommends that all students should have possibility to study a foreign lang during their study, barriers removed.
Next was the update talk from CercleS the European Confederation of Language Centres in Higher Education. Why's and therefore's of CercleS
Members of CercleS have free-access to the new CercleS journal Language Learning in Higher Education
CercleS wants to encourage more online communication by making the most of web 2.0 technologies: more social networking,online meetings, possible Moodle platform, repository of teaching materials.
John Morley (Manchester University) Report on IWLP (Institution-Wide Language Programmes) survey results: 62 HEI took part including 20 from Russell Group. Most popular languages were Spanish and French followed by German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese. Real growth in Chinese and Arabic (as I do admit I have noticed in the library usage and demands). Very good question in the audience about independant language learning It is not in the data but really should be taken into account.
Teresa MacKinnon (Warwick University) presentation The context for collaboration in language learning.
David Dual (Durham University) reflexion on the project of cross-border collaboration between students at Durham and at Douai. "students in the project liked the fact of "not being judged" and feeling "comfortable" speaking with other students.
Blackboard Collaborate as alternative to Skype as there were several problems with Skype. The programme worked well, good collaboration between the students at Durham University and at Douai Ecole des Mines, also because they were working in the same field (engineering).
T. MacKinnon (Warwick University) experience of using google chromebooks for language learning. Usefull because Google Chromebooks have automated updates, there's also a secure domain on google apps for education. On one lesson she asked students to describe themselves in French, and therefore trying to guess who in the classroom they were communicating with. The presentation is available on slideshare
Sybille Nalezinski (UCL) talk on Nanogong the voice recorder-to-go that can be integrated in a VLE (it works with Moodle so surely it could work with Weblearn, our VLE at Oxford? For the Tutors to try). It's an open source and a great system because the students can record their voice. Students sometimes find speaking difficult in class as there is not much time and you can get shy.
Alison Dickens (LLAS) spoke of the FAVOR project between five universities in order to create open education resources. 18 languages are included and all is free to download. This is the Language Box
Steven Fawkes (Association of Language Learning) mentions the fact that in Europe, multi-lingualism is at the heart of policies... here, it's another story.
We started looking at old English expressions, "Hope I don't get dashelled on my way to drury lane after crotch-trolling this weekend!" on twitter from @ThSnl
Fascinating French and Russian lesson from @stevenfawkes (on twitter). If we are not good at remembering words, visual can help (we also learn French and Russian with a simple body language), if not still, the music can help.
Next conference in Dublin 9-10 January 2014 at University College Dublin and the year after Cambridge!
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