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Special
Interest Groups
Teaching
& Learning
(formally
AULC-TALK )
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Convenor:
Anne
Gallagher (NUI Maynooth)arina
Mozzon-Mcpherson
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group can meet "virtually" using the
Mailbase email list:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/aulc-talc.html
This
is a sublist of the Association of University Language
Centres and focuses on issues of teaching and advising
in a variety of learning environments (self-access,
virtual or classroom).
Roles,
expectations, modes of delivery, tools, approaches
are amongst the themes discussed in this sub-list
Other
meetings will generally be held as parallel sessions
during general AULC meetings
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Aims
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to
encourage and promote good practice in language
teaching, advising and learning
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to
inform and apply research into teaching,advising and
learning
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to
share and disseminate information about events which
are relevant to the context within which language centres
operate
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keep
an up-to-date list of all full-time and part-time staff
who teach or advise in language centres
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aims will be achieved through:
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discussion
and exploration of effective ways to exploit resources
in a variety of learning environments (e.g. the self-access
centre, the electronic environment, the classroom )
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reflection
on the professional roles which develop within an ever-changing
language centre environment
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interaction
with other SIGs in the Association of University Language
Centres
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collaboration
with existing professional organisations and projects
(in particular SMILE and PLAN)
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the
creation of an email discussion list, a website
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the
organisation of regular meetings and visits to colleagues’
language centres
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raising
interest in and awareness of the Association of University
Language Centres within the broader context of languages
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