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Bronwin Patrickson, Lifelong Learning Centre Smartphones are becoming the networking tool of choice amongst young adults. Against the backdrop of this fast growing trend, the Mobile Curriculum project has been exploring what mobile student engagement might mean for the academy. The aim of this seminar is: to introduce people to a variety of mobile tools and...
26th of January (afternoon – details including time and location to come) Organiser Chiara La Sala (M.C.LaSala@leeds.ac.uk) Speakers: Dora Alexopoulu (University of Cambridge) http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/ta259/ James Lamb (University of Edinburgh) http://www.de.ed.ac.uk/people/james-lamb
On the 17th of January (16:00-18:30), Language@Leeds will hold a showcase event to promote language-related research across University of Leeds Faculties, take stock of its interdisciplinary breadth, and identify opportunities. The Vice Chancellor is doing us the honour of opening the showcase. Please consider showcasing your scholarship at this event by submitting a poster. More...
12th December: 9:30 am - 13:00 pm. Venue: Parkinson 1.08. This workshop aims to explore different ways of enhancing students' learning experience and colleagues' teaching practices through effective feedback. Drawing on a wide range of practices across the School and beyond, the workshop will showcase different examples of how feedback allows students the opportunity to...
Karen Llewellyn, Strategy and Planning and Caroline Campbell, Languages for All, School of Languages This seminar aims to: focus on the value of Broadening through Discovery Themes; how this value is understood by students and its effect on their learning, their choices and their career aspirations; and how this understanding relates to that of employer perceptions of...
30th November: 11 – 4 Venue: Leeds Humanities Research Institute, Room 1, 29-31 Clarendon Place Organisers: Sofia Martinho (s.martinho@leeds.ac.uk) & Clare Wright (C.E.M.Wright@leeds.ac.uk). Improving spoken fluency is a key aim for university language learners and teachers, and plays an increasingly important role in assessment (e.g. in CEFR standards) as well as in effective communicative teaching...
Brian Henson, School of Mechanical Engineering This seminar will explore Brian’s LITE project focused around bench marking standards of assessment of final year projects, he will discuss recommendations about the form and analysis of assessment of final year projects to ensure consistency of standards of assessment across different types of projects using different assessments. Time: 12:30pm...
Registration is now open for this one-day workshop: Oral Fluency in the second/ foreign language classroom. Improving spoken fluency is a key aim for university language learners and teachers, and plays an increasingly important role in assessment (e.g. in CEFR standards) as well as in effective communicative teaching practices. Drawing on findings from research, this...
22nd of November: 3.35 – 4.30 Parkinson B.08 Immediately following the workshop (see above) Bee Bond will be discussing her one-year LITE project. This should be of interest to all colleagues in the school. Her scholarship project is important for all of us in LCS. If you would like to have a flavour of her...
22nd of November: 2.30 -3.30 Parkinson B. 08 Chair: Chiara la Sala (contact for this event - M.C.LaSala@leeds.ac.uk) You are warmly invited to the workshop ‘Tips for Writing & Submitting Good Grant Proposals and Abstracts’. This is an opportunity to understand better the process of writing proposals and abstracts successfully, to hear the advice of...