The Language Centre

Opportunities and resources for postgraduatesPOLIS MPhils and PhDs

Emma Furuta, Language Adviser www.langcen.cam.ac.uk

Your postgraduate studies and beyond

• Do your studies this year require you to become familiar with a new language? Or one that you have taken up quite recently?

• Would extra opportunities to maintain your current languages be useful to you?

• Which languages may feature in your future career, or your personal life?

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• POLIS PhD, studying Ukrainian for research trips to Kiev

• POLIS PhD, studying Russian, international perceptions of Russian policy

• Social anthropologists, Lingala, research based in Kinshasa

• Sociology postgrad, Malay, field work in Malaysia

Postgraduates: some examples

1-to-1 appointments – Resources – Speakers of other languages scheme

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Researching and interviewing abroad

• Informants: advantages and disadvantages

• Communicating cultural understanding

• The realistic goal of achieving a professional level of proficiency in a widely spoken language (B2)

• The realistic potential of developing a lesser-known language with support, one of the greatest needs identified in Lost for Words: the need for languages in UK diplomacy and security.

Our provision www.training.cam.ac.uk

CU Language Programme (CULP)

Arabic Mandarin

French Persian

German Portuguese

Hebrew Russian

Italian Spanish

Japanese Swahili

Modern Greek Urdu

Taught courses in 14 languages

CU Language Programme

• Basic, Intermediate 1 & 2, Advanced levels, depending on the language

• 30 contact hours + 15 hours (online)

• Common European Framework levels

• 1) Standard, 2) Semi intensive, 3) Intensive

• Av. students per group: 17

• Drop-in for guidance from teachers 12-2pm, 13th-16th October

• Student fee in 2015-16: £230 for 30 classroom hours (£7.60)

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CULP classes in Reading for Academic Purposes

• For learning to read documents you may encounter in your research• Close textual analysis, grammatical and stylistic commentary, translation

• French (Basic, intermediate 1, intermediate 2)• German (Basic, basic 2, intermediate 1, intermediate 2)• Italian (Basic, intemediate 1)• Russian (Basic)• Spanish (Basic)

• Weekly • 90 minute lessons• Online learning objects

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General courses Reading for Academic Purposes

College support where poss., contribution to course fee upon completion of the course

Researcher Development FundLanguage training bursaries for PhDs, applications 3 times a yearMatt Lane, Grad training, PPD

Fully funded classes

Only for postgraduates in the School of Arts and Humanities& School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Financial support for training in additional languages

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Occasionally departmental support

ADTIS In-Sessional Support Programme (formerly EAP)

UNDERGRADUATEUNDERGRADUATE

POST-DOCS, POST-DOCS, STAFF, ERASMUS, STAFF, ERASMUS, VISITING VISITING SCHOLARSSCHOLARS

POSTGRADUATEPOSTGRADUATE

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First part of the provision

• Supervisor, 6 meetings over the year• Focus on priorities you both identify• Pronunciation supervisions• Conversation practice sessions• Facility to begin whenever you need to and have a whole year of support

• Fees

Unconditional students: £260Post-docs and others: £485Conditional students: £365

Workshops – an example:

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Free to all, open courseware via Raven

Learning Resources

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Learner Support

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Other learning events, some examples

• Free strategy building workshops in Reading for Academic Purposes in your target language

• Workshops, one-to-one appointments and Moodle site to support with Choosing a Short Language Course Abroad

• Friends Without Frontiers, volunteers who offer time to practise their mother tongue with you, without needing to practise your language in return i.e. not a Conversation Exchange

Language Study Group

Thursday night is Study Night!

17:00-18:30 in the Learning Centre

Reserve your place on the University Training Booking System (UTBS)

Or email enquiries@langcen.cam.ac.uk

to ask to be added to the mailing list

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Language learning advisers

• Drop in and see us!

• Book a one-to-one appointment

• Discuss your language learning plans

and goals

See AdviceLanguage Centre homepage

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Indonesian

Twi

Arabicdialects

Mandarin

Swahili Mongolian

Amharic

HausaHindi

Icelandic

Gujarati

VietnameseLingala

FinnishTamil

Zulu

Downing PlaceTel.: 01223 (3)35058

Where are we?

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