Setting the agenda for languages in higher education

Ed. David Head, Michael Kelly, Elspeth Jones & Teresa Tinsley

In association with the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies and in collaboration with UCML, SCHML and AULC

This selection of papers from a major conference is designed to support emerging policies towards languages in higher education and to enrich the debate about their place within the curriculum and within society as a whole.

It presents material from a number of perspectives – global (David Crystal), international (Hilary Footitt) and European (Wolfgang Mackiewicz), as well as detailed consideration of key UK issues, including a foreign-policy perspective. It also explores pressures facing language programmes in Canada, and initiatives to widen participation and to promote the languages agenda. Other papers offer a strategic perspective on the issues of on-line learning and the growth of Language Centres. This book will be of interest to all those concerned with developing provision for languages in HE.

Contents

Introduction. David Head, Elspeth Jones, Michael Kelly and Teresa Tinsley

International Perspectives
Taking account of the linguistic revolution. David Crystal | Teaching languages on-line: deconstructing the myths. Uschi Felix | Tools of diplomacy: the language policy of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and what it means for higher education. Vanessa Davies | Getting out of the numbers game: setting an agenda for curricular reform in Canadian university language programmes. James M Skidmore

European Perspectives
Hunting the snark: international perspectives on language policies. Hilary Footitt | Language policy and language education policy at European Union
level. Wolfgang Mackiewicz | Les mains sales: engaging with policy for languages in higher education. Michael Kelly

Setting the agenda in the UK
National language strategies post-Nuffield. David Nott | Tackling the university language recruitment crisis. Keith Marshall | Promoting languages in higher education: lessons from the European Year of Languages (EYL2001). Teresa Tinsley | Widening participation in Modern Languages. Annie Bannerman and Anne Stevens | Developing language centres. Bob Powell

An important contribution to the debate on language policies for the 21st century

2003 | 192pp | ISBN-13: 978-1-904243-17-5 | ISBN-10: 1-904243-17-7 | £15 | Order this title online

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