TEMPUS project "Reforming Foreign Language Studies in Serbia", Working visit to University of Southampton

1. Modern Languages at
Southampton
Dr Ian McCall
idm@soton.ac.uk

2. Modern Languages -
Undergraduate Programmes
● Programmes
○ Single Honours
○ Combined Honours (with ML, outside ML)
○ 3 Languages Degree
Four Year programmes (Year Abroad)
Three Year programmes

3. Modern Languages – course
structures
● 8 modules per year
● 2 semesters
● Contact hours / workload per module
● Lectures, seminars, tutorials, online study

4. Modern Languages – curriculum
● Language modules
● Linguistics modules
○ ‘The Making of Modern French’
○ ‘Applications of Linguistics’
● Socio-historical modules
○ ‘Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité’
○ ‘Ethnography for Language Learners’
● Cultural studies modules
○ ‘Modern French Culture’
○ ‘Reading Culture’

5. Modern Languages – Year Abroad
● ERASMUS exchanges / University Exchanges
● Language Assistants
● Work Placements
● Non-EU placements & exchanges (Mexico, Chile,
Brazil, Canada, Switzerland)
● Projects

6. Supportive environment
● Academic Advisors
● Staff Office Hours
● Communications (email, Blackboard, blogs)
● Student reps
● Specialist counselling
● Student language societies
● Pre-entry preparation

7. Opportunities – future careers
● Employability Programme
● Work experience opportunities
Year Abroad
Student Ambassadors / Associates
Student Mentors
Visit Day guides

8. Postgraduate Programmes
Taught
● MA programmes
● Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching
● Applied Linguistics (Research
Methodology)
● English Language Teaching
● English Language Teaching (online)
● Transnational Studies

9. Postgraduate Programmes
Research
● MRes
○ Linguistics (Language Acquisition)
○ Linguistics ( Syntax and Semantics)
○ Modern Languages
● MPhil/PhD

10. Research at Southampton
● Three Research Centres
○ Centre for Global Englishes
○ Centre for Transnational Studies
○ Centre for Applied Language Research
● Top 2 in European Studies (RAE 2008)

11. Conferences
● Sociolinguistics Symposium (Sept 2010)
● Music and Migration (Oct 2009)
nd
● 2 International Conference on English as
a Lingua Franca (April 2009)
For your diaries!
● British Association for Applied Linguists
(BAAL) September 2012.