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Centre for Language Study

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We provide a wide range of language learning courses and resources, for students.

About

You’ll start at a level that matches your ability, in your chosen language. Our courses are tailored to your needs.

As a specialist linguist, whether you want to further your language studies after an A-Level or start a language ab-initio, we will help you to reach graduate level and get the language focus you want. Depending on your degree programme, language modules will form between 25% to 75% of your degree.

If you're studying another subject at the University, you can join us and learn a language for credits as part of your degree, if your programme allows for it. If it does not, come and take advantage of our unique Southampton Language Opportunity scheme. This offers free (non-credit bearing) language courses to all University of Southampton students.

If you’re part of the local community or a member of staff, we can offer you the chance to learn a language through our Lifelong Learning programme.

Resources

You'll also have excellent resources to support you. By joining our community of language learners, you'll take advantage of our ambitious language teaching. We'll give you the tools to become the best linguist you possibly can.

Our highly effective teaching methods encourage independence and taking responsibility for your own learning, through continuity of methods:

  • group and pair work
  • four skills
  • grammar
  • translation
  • interpreting
  • mediation activities
  • language lab
  • online
  • virtual learning environment (VLE)
  • face-to-face
  • student-led oral classes
  • 1-2-1 consultations

Our courses and resources include:

People, projects and publications

People

Mr Adrian Sewell

Senior Language Teaching Fellow

Email: a.j.sewell@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Mrs Carmen Martin De Leon

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: c.martin-de-leon@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Ms Cristina Garcia Hermoso

Principal Teaching Fellow

Email: c.garcia-hermoso@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Ms Fatima Cande

Senior Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Fátima is interested in the Foreign and Second language teaching and learning.

Email: f.cande@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Dr Ian Mccall

Senior Lecturer

Research interests

  • Translation Theory
  • Practical Translation and Translation Pedagogy
  • Audiovisual Translation 

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: i.d.mccall@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Ms Irina Nelson

Senior Language Teaching Fellow

Email: irina.nelson@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Mrs Julia Kelly

Principal Teaching Fellow

Email: j.a.kelly@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Professor Kate Borthwick MA (Hons), MA, PHD, FHEA, SCMALT

Professorial Fellow of Enterprise

Research interests

  • Massive Open Online Courses (and Language MOOCs)
  • Open educational practices and resources
  • Blended learning for languages

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: k.borthwick@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Dr Katy Heady

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: k.v.heady@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Mrs Laura Salguero Esteban

Part Time Lecturer

Email: l.salguero-esteban@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

My research interests are in the field of ab initio language learning, particularly with regard to issues of progression and independent learning within accelerated courses at university level.
Principal Teaching Fellow

Contact

Contact us

For more information about the Centre for Language Study contact the Humanities student office.

Student office

Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, Southampton, Hampshire SO17 1BF
Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm, UK time
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