Language Teaching Community of Practice (LT CoP)
Collaborative development of expertise and scholarship
The LT CoP concluded its third year of activity with a well-attended meeting in the Summer Term on 6th June. The meeting was opened by Professor Katja Strohfeldt-Venables, T&L Dean responsible for Quality, who supported the event and encouraged the Continue reading Summer Meeting 2019
At the Spring meeting we took forward our work by systematically examining the descriptors of ‘scholarship’ found in two different sets of role profiles: the UoR Academic and Research role profiles and those included in the Teaching and Scholarship career Continue reading Spring Meeting 2019
The first meeting of the academic year 2018-19 was devoted to introducing the new theme we chose to focus on, ‘The Scholarship of Language Learning and Teaching and its influence on students’ learning’, and to starting a preliminary exchange of Continue reading Autumn Meeting 2018
At the Summer Meeting, we tried to pull together key aspects of this year’s topic: ‘Marking criteria, rubrics and grading scales used to assess speaking and writing in a foreign language’. We started by recalling the main ideas that emerged Continue reading Summer Meeting 2018
The aim of the Spring Meeting was to discuss some ideas brought up in the presentations at the meeting in October. We discussed some core aspects of the debate around the use of marking criteria, grading scales and rubrics. We Continue reading Spring Meeting 2018
In 2017-2018, we widened participation by inviting colleagues with an interest in foreign language pedagogy to join us in termly meetings. The purpose of the first meeting, held on 13th November 2017, was to spark a discussion on a topic that Continue reading Autumn Meeting 2017