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HE Resources Collection


In September 2000 the Higher Education Resources Collection was established in the CILT Information and Resources Library through CILT's partnership with the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies.

This collection is now an integral part of the library's holdings which can be searched using the online catalogue.

Visitors

Both individuals and groups are welcome to visit during opening hours.
Group visits are by prior arrangement; further information on booking a group visit is available on this site.
Regular Resource Information days are also organised for staff in HE. For further information on these events visit the HE Workshops page.

About the collection

The Higher Education Resources Collection is a reference collection of materials related to generic teaching and learning issues (eg interdisciplinarity and intercultural learning) and more specifically to the teaching and learning of modern foreign languages in HE. The collection also incorporates a range of relevant teaching materials in both printed,
audio and video and electronic format. These include:

  • coursebooks developed specifically for use in the HE context;
  • specialist grammars;
  • resource books for developing specific skills;
    teaching materials for languages for specific purposes;
  • HE project outputs;
  • display areas containing a wide range of information from relevant projects and organisations for visitors to take away.

Other resources of direct relevance to visitors from the HE sector include:

  • adult teaching materials: covers teaching materials that may be applicable to the HE context, though not specifically designed for this purposes. This type of material will be particularly useful for non-specialist and less advanced learners;
  • teaching materials for business language, self-study, languages other than French, Spanish, Italian, and German - these include a wide range of other European, UK ethnic minority, and major trading languages;
  • dictionaries and grammars;
  • texts dealing specifically with research based in the field of psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, phonetics and phonology, vocabulary use, and mass media communications;
  • a range of books on all aspects of language teaching including methods, languages for specific purposes, skills, generalia, psychology, testing and assessment and organisation and administration;
  • periodicals and abstracts: over 400 periodical titles and a collection of abstracts and indexes in language teaching and linguistics as well as the British Education Index and bibliographies.

Visitors do not need to be members; access is on a drop-in basis during CILT published opening hours.

Multimedia facilities and study facilities

The Library has several open study areas, including a multimedia area with:

  • multimedia PCs with DVD and CD-ROM players;
  • facilities for playing audio and video cassettes;
  • satellite television;
  • internet access (for researching languages web sites).