Victorian students are taking advantage of a unique opportunity to improve their foreign language skills through regular meetings with migrant seniors whose first language is Chinese, German or Spanish.
Now in its third year, the Connecting younger second language learners and older bilinguals program is led by Dr Marisa Cordella from Monash University’s School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. Working [...]
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Students and seniors connect
May 15, 2012 – 5:11 pm
TRANSLATION, TRANSNATION Winter School & Festival 2012
May 14, 2012 – 1:43 pm
The theme for the second annual Translation Winter School & Festival is TRANSLATION, TRANSNATION, giving emphasis to the connexions between transnational writing and the practice of translation. The event is aimed at students, writers, professional translators, language teachers and anyone interested in literary translation! A week-long residential programme of hands-on translation practice is accompanied by [...]
New CEFR Alignment Website Launched: Innovation in Language Learning
February 2, 2012 – 11:02 am
The School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash has recently adopted the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) to align more closely with current industry and teaching standards.
To find out more about the CEFR at Monash, explore the CEFR in Australia, an international language framework Website. The site, which was launched this [...]
Professor’s Gift Overcomes Communication Barriers
December 12, 2011 – 10:30 am
Arriving in Australia in 1998 from Iran, Monash Professor Farzad Sharifian knows firsthand the trials and tribulations of international students, and the life-changing impact that a PhD scholarship can make.
A member of the Monash family for 6 years, Professor Sharifian is the Director of The Language and Society Centre, Faculty of Arts at Monash. He [...]
33rd Australasian Society for Classical Studies Conference
December 9, 2011 – 3:05 pm
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (Classical Studies, LCL) is hosting the 33rd ASCS Conference in collaboration with the Melbourne Hellenic Museum from the 5th-9th of February 2012. The conference which has already attracted a large number of international speakers is expected to be an intellectual highlight in the cultural scene of Melbourne and bring together scholars and members [...]
Conference presentations – December 2011
December 8, 2011 – 4:11 pm
Update on project activities!
ARC Linkage Project: Connecting younger second language learners and older bilinguals: Intergenerational, intercultural encounters and second language development.
December 2011
Between September 2011 and December 2011 the research group presented papers at the following conferences:
- ALAA-ALANZ Canberra Langfest 2011 (27 November – 9 December)
- 7th Symposium on Discourse Analysis, which was held at Monash University [...]
