Projects - archive

English language projects

Going Dutch: Collaborative student research on language and culture (CILASS - York St John): This project used new technology to facilitate student-led collaborative international research on language and culture. English Language students at the university of Amsterdam and at York St John will worked together online on contemporary questions in language, culture and communication, before coming together in York for a face to face conference where they presented papers to each other and to their staff.
Project completed: April 2010; Tags: English language, Internationalisation, Inquiry-based learning

Learning on the Language-Literature Border: Ways of integrating language and literature within final year modules (Central Lancashire): The primary purpose of this project was examine a variety of methods for integrating language and literature within final year modules. A secondary purpose was to evaluate assessment methods that enable final year undergraduates undertaking a Language and Literature programme to reflect on their educational and intellectual experiences of both subjects and to consider their subject, generic and employability skills in a meaningful way.; Project completed: December 2009; Tags: English language, Assessment, Employability & Enterprise

Careers for English Language graduates (York St John): This project created a careers resource specifically for English Language graduates.; Project completed: July 2008; Tags: English language, Employability & Enterprise

Word Webs: Exploring Vocabulary (Glasgow): This project aimed to demonstrate how a knowledge of vocabulary, and of the ways words develop and interrelate, can illuminate the study of texts and the cultures in which they are embedded. Through the use of electronic resources it explored two major linguistic areas of relevance to students of English Language and Literature: (1) The growth of the English vocabulary, and (2) The vocabulary of literature. The result was an interactive web-site designed to engage student interest through content, tasks and suggestions for project work.; Project completed: June 2008; Tags: English language, The Subject Centre in Scotland, E-learning

Learning and Teaching with the Thesaurus of Old English: This project exploits the potential of the electronic version of the Thesaurus of Old English by offering an online package containing subsets of data, notes on its use, and background information necessary for its interpretation.; Project completed: 2007; Tags: The Subject Centre in Scotland, E-learning, Old English literature, English Language

ARIES: Punctuation, Spelling and Reference for the Web (Glasgow): The project converted an existing suite of computer programs concerned with improving key English Language skills in spelling and punctuation into a web-accessible resource.; Project completed: June 2002; Tags: English language, The Subject Centre in Scotland, E-learning, Literacy & Writing Skills

Development of 'Wessex Parallel Web Texts' (Southampton): Further development of an online resource consisting of an electronic anthology of texts and translations of Middle English works in prose and verse, together with background material for use in teaching.; Project completed: October 2002; Tags: English language, E-learning, Medieval literature