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Supporting Teaching and Learning in Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies:
Introduction to LLAS
John Canning and Shoshannah Holdom
Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
Life and Work in Academia: An event for new lecturers
Clare College, Cambridge, 15 April 2008
Background LLAS is one of 24 Subject Centres based at
institutions throughout the UK
Funded by UK funding councils via the Higher Education Academy
Hosted at University of Southampton, but remit to support teaching and learning in languages, linguistics and area studies for all higher education teaching staff in the UK
Website www.llas.ac.uk
• Guide to good practice for teaching and learning in languages, linguistics and area studies
• Materials Bank• Conference and workshop registration• News blog• Discussion forum• Publications and reports
Events www.llas.ac.uk/events
Workshops, conferences and seminars• Intercultural dialogue: the way forward, Bristol, April
2008• Research methods workshop, Glasgow, May 2008• Mark my words: creative assessment and effective
feedback in linguistics, June 2008, London• Languages in higher education conference:
Transitions and connections, July 2008, York • Languages of the wider world: valuing diversity,
September 2008, London
Recruitment and cross sector work
• Why Study Languages? CD aimed at 14-18 year olds.
• Discover American Studies CD-ROM (launched March 2008)
• Partnership with CILT, the National Centre for Languages and Routes into Languages
Current and recent projects
• Transition from school into higher education (in progress)
• International Approaches to Islamic Studies• Employability and entrepreneurship projects (with
English and History Subject Centres)• Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning Group • The Language Café• Language Network for Quality Assurance (LanQua)
Funding opportunities
• Action/ pedagogic research projects
• Materials development projects
• Mini-projects (suggest a project at any time)
• Workshops to go
Publications
• Liaison. New magazine from June 2008• Five years on: the language landscape in
2007.
• Hard-going but worth it: A snapshot of attitudes to reading among languages undergraduates.
• 700 Reasons for Studying Languages• Here be dragons? Enterprising Graduates in
the Humanities
Summary
• Driven by demand of practitioners in the field• Sharing good practice, not prescriptive• Activities by LLAS community for the
community• No charge for most workshops/ one-day
conferences free of charge
ContactSubject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
023 8059 4814
www.llas.ac.uk
