Managing or Juggling
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Managing or Juggling
Diane Schmitt
Nottingham Language Centre
Nottingham Trent University
English Language Teaching and
Modern Languages in HE
Cultural Divide
Complementarity
Marriage of Convenience
French Staff and their research interests
French language and linguistics: structure and
sociology of modern French, language teaching
methodology
France in the world, with particular reference to Africa
and Europe; the idea of the republic in France;
eighteenth century literature and philosophy, French
revolution; culture and politics
History of twentieth century France, particularly
cultural history of the interwar period and the Second
World War
Nineteenth century literature, especially short fiction
(Mérimée and Maupassant); narative analysis; fin-desiècle culture
English Language Staff and their Research Interests
Applied linguistics; second language writing; error
analysis; discourse analysis
Applied linguistics, self-directed language learning;
self-assessment; English Language Teaching;
English for specific purposes, especially English for
academic purposes
The communicative role of gesture in ELT; culture in
language teaching; materials development and
production; video in language teaching
Mid-twentieth century drama, especially Christopher
Fry, T.S. Eliot, Arnold Wesker and John Arden;
Autobiography; Charlotte Bronte
A Traditional View of Difference
EFL
Cash Cow
Students with a deficit
Multi-lingual Groups
Intensive
Trained NS
Expendable Staff
In-sessional Support
External Exams
External Accreditation
Market-oriented
Research poor??
MFL
Academic Subject
Students with value-added
Monolingual Groups
Few contact hours
Untrained NS and NNS
Contracted Staff
University Language Prog
Internal Assessment
HEFCE validation
Sector-led
Research rich??
Government Imperatives
Blair Initiative - 1999
6-19 Green Paper
Set a prime objective of
increasing international
student numbers by
50,000 in Higher
Education over the
base year of 1996/97
Introduction of MFL at
primary school level
Language at Key Stage
4 no longer compulsory
Disappointing take-up
at A-level
Shared Challenges
Student Profiles
International students are no longer an elite group
The range of student proficiency has expanded for
both EFL and MFL
Are we all facing a deficit view of language or skill
Staffing
In both cases staff flexibility is paramount - goodwill
must be maintained
Staff development may be required
Contractual issues – equality issues, employment
legislation
Income Generation
Understanding the state of the current market
Developing new markets
Selling what people want to buy, rather than what we
want to offer
Setting clear targets and assessing whether and why
we have or haven’t met them
Understanding how your university handles
commercial business
Potential Areas of Synergy
Methodology
Teaching lower level learners
Intensive teaching
Content-based methodologies
Fast-track acquisition
Language Teacher Education
Undergraduate programmes
New MFL staff
MAs in MFL
Assessment & Benchmarking
Staff development
Linking to the Common European
Framework