Professional Development
& Short Courses

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

• Uniwide – free part time language courses for all undergraduates as part of their degree course
• Pre-sessional English Courses – Academic English development courses for International Students
• Coaching for Academic English – English Language Services for International Students
• Study Courses

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