The department provides a range of courses through our British Council-accredited Language Centre, through our role as lead partner of the north west consortium of Routes into Languages, and through our staff’s founding links with the Film in Language Teaching Association (FILTA).
For business
We offer the following continuing professional development (CPD) courses:
- Professional Communication and Other Language Skills for Business
- Custom-designed short courses for groups
For university and international students
School teachers, pupils and Schools outreach
- Building your confidence in Teaching French
- Teaching in English-Medium Classrooms – professional English skills for academics
- Custom-designed Short Courses for Teachers
- INSET day for French and Spanish A Level Teachers
- Using corpora in Language Teaching INSET – developing corpus based materials for the language classroom
- CPD courses
Events and resources available through Routes into Languages
Schools Liaison
Using film to teach and learn foreign languages
For more information about the following courses, contact Dr Carmen Herrero.
- Creative Subtitling
- INSET day: Using Film in the Classroom to Teach Languages
- Using Corpora
- Film Pedagogy
For GCSE students (Years 8-11)
- Making foreign Languages and Option (MFLO) Days
- Film and Culture Event for Languages (FACE) – GCSE Day
- Projector: French, Spanish and German GCSE Study Session
- Language Enrichment Event
- Languages talks
For A Level students
- A2 Language Days: French, German, Spanish
- AS Language Days: French, German, Spanish
- Essay Writing for Film Events