The Language Centre
Opportunities and resources for MML postgraduates
Emma Furuta, Language Adviser [email protected]
Your MPhil and beyond
• Do your studies this year require you to become familiar with a new language? Or one that you have taken up (again) quite recently?
• Would extra opportunities to maintain your current languages be useful?
• Which languages may feature in your future career, or your free time?
…and where the Language Centre is placed within the University
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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Learning Resources
Learner Support
The Advising Team Book an appointment via our homepage
• Provide first point of contact in reception area
• Offer one-to-one appointments to discuss language learning plans and goals
• Help to match aims with appropriate opportunities (classes, independent learning, specialist resources)
• Discuss learning strategies for independent language study
• Meet up to review progress and plan next steps
• Encourage and help to sustain momentum
Book an appointment from the Advice link on our homepage
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
• Expertise in knowledge of opportunities internally in the University and externally in the wider community
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 [email protected]
to ask to be added to the mailing list
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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? www.langcen.cam.ac.uk