In case you were wondering whether it’s worth joining our merry SELCS Christmas bubble, every lunch hour throughout the term break, please find some graphical representations of our discussion topics below, courtesy of Eleanor Chiari:

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I’m very pleased to announce the judges’ verdict on the 2020 SELCS Language and Culture under Lockdown Photography Competition!

The first prize goes to Kyoka Seguchi for Wishes and Dreams:

Kyoka Seguchi, Wishes and Dreams (2020)

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Dear SELCS students,

This post is to call your attention to our BLLC research project. We have got a question for you: what do YOU think of remote language learning at SELCS? To answer, please fill in this survey.

BLLC (Bringing Language Learners Closer) is a student-led research group devoted to discovering what you, the students, make of remote language learning. We have designed a survey to give you a chance to voice your opinions about remote language learning experiences and expectations. This is also an opportunity for you to have your say and inform research-led teaching at SELCS! There will be a chance to enter a raffle once you have completed the survey and win one of two Amazon vouchers worth £50 or one of four Amazon vouchers worth £25! The raffle will take place once the survey has ended, which will be around August-September depending on student participation.

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‘Everything we see is propped on something we have previously seen’ (Kaja Silverman)

When I took over as the Head of SELCS and Chair of CMII in September 2019, my goals were to: 1) consolidate after a decade of expansion; 2) review the relocation of admin support to the first floor of Foster Court; 3) oversee the reconstruction of our website; 4) complete the search for a new name for SELCS-CMII, and, 5) re-start the annual photography competition.

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By SELCS Language Co-ordinators (Marie Fournier, Anne Grydehøj, Helga Hlaðgerður Lúthersdóttir, Joana Jacob Ramalho, Christina Massaccesi, Marga Navarrete, Mazal Oaknín, Dagmar Paulus, Christine Sas)

Some students may feel that the lockdown has bereft them of essential face to face contact time with peers and tutors to develop fluency and gain a better understanding of the languages they study. We have all been adjusting to these changing times and finding our way around this conundrum too and would like to invite you all to think creatively and share with each other how you have been practising your Danish, Dutch, French, German, Icelandic, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish, this vast array of fascinating languages on offer in SELCS!

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