Supporting extra-curricular activities
Carolin Schneider and Melinda Whong
The language zone at the University of Leeds supports independent language learning. Team of 6 staff.
Support through strategy and policy: national (Challenges to Modern Languages, Teaching Excellent Framework) and university contexts (change of school, local control)
Students as central: all students: language learners from all backgrounds, use the newly refurbished space, student education service ethos.
Response to TEF: scholarship (part of tutor's contracts) opportunity to work across languages across the School (mentoring programme), in partnership with students, where possible.
Carolin:
Conversation Club
practise listening and speaking skills, weekly sessions during term time= one hour, topics advertised in advance, guest speakers and trips out, for example to art gallery. Some done by teaching staff (part of their contract)
PowerPoint Karaoke
Practise speaking and presentation skills, two volunteers - a presentation of 60 seconds each = 4 slides, they have never seen the slides before, student-led. Some done by teaching staff
Language advising: provision of information, offering directional, specific advice and recommendations, ad hoc support by Language Zone staff, one to one consultations staffed by teachers, with experience of tutoring, can cater for small groups.
Peer Learning
explored and abandoned. But new life: Language Groups and Tandem@Leeds
both student-led activities
Points: stakeholders? programme structure, is it done already? resourcing/staffing, physical structures and space, communication, visibility and marketing
The language zone at the University of Leeds supports independent language learning. Team of 6 staff.
Support through strategy and policy: national (Challenges to Modern Languages, Teaching Excellent Framework) and university contexts (change of school, local control)
Students as central: all students: language learners from all backgrounds, use the newly refurbished space, student education service ethos.
Response to TEF: scholarship (part of tutor's contracts) opportunity to work across languages across the School (mentoring programme), in partnership with students, where possible.
Carolin:
Conversation Club
practise listening and speaking skills, weekly sessions during term time= one hour, topics advertised in advance, guest speakers and trips out, for example to art gallery. Some done by teaching staff (part of their contract)
PowerPoint Karaoke
Practise speaking and presentation skills, two volunteers - a presentation of 60 seconds each = 4 slides, they have never seen the slides before, student-led. Some done by teaching staff
Language advising: provision of information, offering directional, specific advice and recommendations, ad hoc support by Language Zone staff, one to one consultations staffed by teachers, with experience of tutoring, can cater for small groups.
Peer Learning
explored and abandoned. But new life: Language Groups and Tandem@Leeds
both student-led activities
Points: stakeholders? programme structure, is it done already? resourcing/staffing, physical structures and space, communication, visibility and marketing
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