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Scottish Languages Review Issue 26

Issue 26 - Spring / Summer 2013

The articles contained in this issue provide a wide spectrum of perspectives:

We start off with a contribution by Mary Fischer on the use of languages in the financial services sector. Nicola Malcolm tells us about her journey from Advanced Higher pupil in three languages to successful professional freelance linguist. She previously wrote for us in Issue 16, when she reflected on her last year of school, and this is also what Dean Cooper Cunningham is doing, writing about his experience of researching the use of language skills in the United Nations. Gwen McCrossan enthuses about her creative approaches to modern language teaching in the primary school. Finally, Claire van Wengen’s action research project provides evidence of how children with severe social, emotional and behavioural needs benefitted from their language learning experience.

The Selected Events section serves as a summary reminder of upcoming seminars and conferences up to August 2014 and in our Selected Publications section you will find links to freely available articles from academic journals and relevant recent publications.

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Call for papers

Do you have something to say about language learning/teaching or language policy, in Scotland or in other parts of the world? Would you like to bring your action research project to a wider audience? Do you want to respond to an article in this or a previous edition? We accept submissions at any time but if you want your paper to be considered for the next edition, please contact the editor Hannah Doughty.

The SLR is read by linguists as well as educational stakeholders across the country and beyond, so your article can really make an impact!

Employer Demand for Languages Graduates in Scotland: a Case Study in the Financial Services Sector

Mary Fischer
In the context of recent surveys of business and employer attitudes to the economy’s need for language skills, this study aims to contribute to the debate by investigating the attitudes to forei...
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Continually Expanding Horizons

Nicola Malcolm
Having written an article for the Scottish Languages Review before beginning my higher education degree back in 2007, I reflect on my experiences of studying French and German at university level, bot...
Keywords: Advanced Higher, ERASMUS, languages at university, specialised language services

Language Use at the United Nations: Interdisciplinary Project of the Scottish Baccalaureate in Languages

Dean Cooper Cunningham
The Scottish Baccalaureate may be an extraordinarily challenging award to complete but it also has numerous rewards. This article will provide an insight into my experience of the Interdisciplinary P...
Keywords: Scottish Baccalaureate, United Nations, European Union, Interpreting, Translation

Investigating the Views of Children with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties about their Experience of Learning French

Claire van Wengen
This article reports on a research project carried out at a small residential school for children (Primary 4-Secondary 2) with severe social, emotional and behavioural difficulties in Scotland. Resea...
Keywords: inclusion, modern language learning, primary school, pupil perspectives

Creativity in Action in MLPS

Gwen McCrossan
This article provides a description of the learning and teaching approaches adopted by a primary teacher to develop creative practice in teaching French in primary schools. Examples of cross-curricula...
Keywords: Professional Recognition, Creativity, MLPS, French

Selected events April 2013 – August 2014

Summary reminder of upcoming seminars and conferences.

Selected abstracts from academic journals and recent publications

In the 'Selected abstracts from academic journals and recent publications section', you will find links to some downloadable abstracts from academic j...
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