Transcript Managing or Juggling

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
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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
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Set a prime objective of
increasing international
student numbers by
50,000 in Higher
Education over the
base year of 1996/97
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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