LANGUAGE CENTRESNON-ACADEMIC, ACADEMIC SUPPORT UNITS

Thomas SmithLanguage Support Officer

The Language Centre at Queen’s University Belfast

CONTENTS• What’s new?• ‘Super diversity in Language Centres’

• My Role• Queen’s In context- LSP- Cultural Awareness

• Potential for growth and development• What does the future hold?

ACADEMIC SUPPORTACCREDITING LSP

• Collaboration and New-Course Development• Course design, delivery and assessment

• Swedish for Planners• Dutch for Planners• International Business with German • International Business With Mandarin

ALTERNATIVE LSP

• Spanish French and German for Business• Medical French and Spanish• Business and Legal French • Alternative accreditation for LSP

CULTURAL AWARENESS• Increasingly diverse application

• Discipline Specific Cultural Awareness• An introduction to cultural awareness and sensitivity for service providers• Teaching across cultural borders in the classroom• Pre sessional preparation for study abroad initiatives

• Intra-curricular CA training• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering • Psychology

• CASP?

GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT• Evolving focus within academia• Changing with the tide

• Evolving focus within academia• Employability and transferable skill-set development

• New approaches as models for future collaboration• Facilitating collaboration within and across faculty • Challenges

• Finding space within curricula• Reinforcing our message

WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD

• Build on success • Continue to promote innovative and collaborative solutions• Understanding ‘employability’

• Reacting to/capitalising on new trends• Maintain dialogue across faculty

QUESTIONS

Many thanks

Thomas Smitht.smith@qub.ac.uk

The Language Centre at Queen’swww.qub.ac.uk/lc