refless project - ian mccall
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TEMPUS project "Reforming Foreign Language Studies in Serbia", Working visit to University of SouthamptonTRANSCRIPT
Modern Languages - Undergraduate Programmes
● Programmes ○ Single Honours ○ Combined Honours (with ML, outside ML) ○ 3 Languages Degree
Four Year programmes (Year Abroad) Three Year programmes
Modern Languages – course structures
● 8 modules per year ● 2 semesters ● Contact hours / workload per module ● Lectures, seminars, tutorials, online study
Modern Languages – curriculum ● Language modules ● Linguistics modules
○ ‘The Making of Modern French’○ ‘Applications of Linguistics’
● Socio-historical modules○ ‘Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité’ ○ ‘Ethnography for Language Learners’
● Cultural studies modules ○ ‘Modern French Culture’○ ‘Reading Culture’
Modern Languages – Year Abroad
● ERASMUS exchanges / University Exchanges ● Language Assistants ● Work Placements ● Non-EU placements & exchanges (Mexico, Chile,
Brazil, Canada, Switzerland) ● Projects
Supportive environment
● Academic Advisors ● Staff Office Hours● Communications (email, Blackboard, blogs)● Student reps ● Specialist counselling ● Student language societies ● Pre-entry preparation
Opportunities – future careers
● Employability Programme● Work experience opportunities
Year AbroadStudent Ambassadors / AssociatesStudent MentorsVisit Day guides
Postgraduate ProgrammesTaught
● MA programmes● Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching● Applied Linguistics (Research
Methodology)● English Language Teaching● English Language Teaching (online)● Transnational Studies
Postgraduate ProgrammesResearch
● MRes ○ Linguistics (Language Acquisition)○ Linguistics ( Syntax and Semantics)○ Modern Languages
● MPhil/PhD
Research at Southampton
● Three Research Centres○ Centre for Global Englishes ○ Centre for Transnational Studies ○ Centre for Applied Language Research
● Top 2 in European Studies (RAE 2008)
Conferences
● Sociolinguistics Symposium (Sept 2010)● Music and Migration (Oct 2009)● 2nd International Conference on English as
a Lingua Franca (April 2009)
For your diaries!● British Association for Applied Linguists
(BAAL) September 2012.