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Language police, smart babies and linguistics online – languages news round up
A round up of languages in the news finds that babies can detect different languages, a boom of online language learning and the French aren’t happy about a particular English abbreviation More than 100 million people are going online to learn a language Writing in Wired, the co-founder of Babbel, a language learning tool, explains […]
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Why student fieldtrips make an impact
Ayona Datta offers six reasons why the impact of teaching fieldtrips goes beyond students and deserves to be counted Impact in recent years has become the most dreaded and controversial concept that has taken over both the Research Excellence Framework (REF) – how university funding and the fate of academic careers is measured – as […]
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CFP Eurosla 2014: Corpus Pragmatics and Second Language Research
EUROSLA 2014 3-6 September 2014 (University of York) CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE THEMATIC COLLOQUIUM “CORPUS PRAGMATICS AND SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH”
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EU referendum: time for UK university leaders to speak out?
Universities have as much to lose as major companies from a ‘no’ vote in any forthcoming EU referendum, says Paul White The chief executive of the Confederation of British Industry has done it. Firms involved in inward investment in the UK (such as Nissan) have done it. But, as yet, British university leaders have not […]
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The volume ‘Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics’ (edited by Kecskes & Romero-Trillo) is published
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Research funding emphasis on ‘impact’ spawns a new industry
In their bid to secure funding under the terms of the Research Excellence Framework, academics are drafting in writers and consultants to make them and their work more accessible Mrs Peabody was never expected to play such a key role in Swansea University’s languages department, especially as she is imaginary. Invented by Katharina Hall, associate […]