http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/33 HE - European Languages, Literature and related subjects http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/15979 Interpreting Environment, Society and Culture Through Signs Margaret Anne Clarke Introductory lecture, suitable for a Cultural Studies class, on the use of public signs to interpret culture. The presentation gives an account of the structure and origins of signs, drawn from the natural world and ancestral history, illustrated with some specfic examples from a British context. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/15581 Internet for modern languages Shoshannah Holdom Internet for modern languages is a tutorial from the Virtual Training Suite. The Virtual Training Suite tutorials aim to help university and college students to develop Internet research skills to assist with their coursework and assignments. The tutorials were written by a national team of UK university or college lecturers and librarians. They recommend key websites in their subject and help students to make discerning use of the Internet to help find information for coursework, literature reviews or personal research. This is an archived version of the tutorial. As of the 1st of August 2011 any further development of the tutorials is being undertaken by TutorPro at http://www.vtstutorials.co.uk http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/15551 Internet for English Matthew Steggle Internet for English is a tutorial from the Virtual Training Suite. The Virtual Training Suite tutorials aim to help university and college students to develop Internet research skills to assist with their coursework and assignments. The tutorials were written by a national team of UK university or college lecturers and librarians. They recommend key websites in their subject and help students to make discerning use of the Internet to help find information for coursework, literature reviews or personal research. This is an archived version of the tutorial. As of the 1st of August 2011 any further development of the tutorials is being undertaken by TutorPro at http://www.vtstutorials.co.uk http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/15544 Feedback shortcuts for assessing writing Carol Bailey (University of Wolverhampton) Here is a set of comments I use frequently when giving feedback to students. It's designed for EFL writers with an English level equivalent to IELTS 5.5 or above. The links are to sites I regularly use in teaching, and the recommended books are available in my university library. Feel free to adapt according to your students' level, needs and available resources. There are different ways you could exploit the comments set: 1. (on paper) as a cover sheet when returning written work. 2. (in Microsoft Word) as the basis for creating AutoText entries, which you can quickly insert into Comments when reviewing electronic copies of your students' work. 3. (in Turnitin) as the basis for creating a QuickMark set in GradeMark. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/15334 Verão em Portugal Will Masters This text and translation accompanies the illustrated podcast in European Portuguese created by Will Masters, a student of Applied Languages at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a research project entitled ‘The Role of Student Audio Casting and Production in the Language Learning Curriculum’. The recording presents a refelction on the student's first experiences of Portugal, and of learning Portuguese. The podcast can be used as a learning resource in several different ways: as a focus for discussion or aural comprehension by students of the Portuguese language. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/15333 Verão em Portugal Will Masters This illustrated podcast in European Portuguese was created by Will Masters, a student of Applied Languages at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a research project entitled ‘The Role of Student Audio Casting and Production in the Language Learning Curriculum’. The recording presents a refelction on the student's first experiences of Portugal, and of learning Portuguese. The podcast can be used as a learning resource in several different ways: as a focus for discussion or aural comprehension by students of the Portuguese language. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/15332 Romanian Thoughts Text Sabina Androne This text and translation into English accompanies the illustrated podcast in Romanian, created by Sabina Androne, a Masters student at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a research project entitled ‘The Role of Student Audio Casting and Production in the Language Learning Curriculum’. The audio summary reflects on the contemporary situation of the Romanian nation in the post-Ceausescu era. The podcast can be used as a learning resource in several different ways: as a focus for discussion, aural comprehension or as a base for further research by students of the Romanian language. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/15172 Use of wikis with 1st year students of French  Christine Penman  I set up 8 wikis (with Wikispaces) in Spring 2010 for collaborative exchanges between students of French at Edinburgh Napier University (Level B1 of the Common European Framework, mainly 1st year, post A-Level/Higher students) and students of English at the Université de Haute Alsace in Mulhouse. Both sides included a number of international students. The aims were to encourage students to practise writing in the language of their counterparts and explore each other’s cultural practices revolving around the student experience (timetabling issues, cost of living, listening/viewing/reading likes and dislikes). They were also asked to select a picture of Scotland / France which, in their view, represented the country where they lived and studied. In Scotland, students were not assessed for these activities (as I viewed this as a pilot study) but some of these took place in tutorial time. In France, on the other hand, wiki activities were embedded in the assessment regime, which accounted for a higher level of activity on that side. Wiki technology provides affordances which align on the latest thoughts on learning and teaching as they provide a collaborative, constructive learning process, have the potential to make students feel engaged and empowered, and can make provision for analytical, reflective and creative activities (for learning theories see Johnstone 2010). It is, however, important to have all activities constructively aligned with the learning objectives. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/15170 Supporting international students  Dr Monika Foster  The activity is based on primary research and extensive work with international students in country (in India or in China) and in the UK. The work was driven by a need to understand, analyse and make recommendations about the international student experience in the UK HE both pre-arrival and during study in the UK. Much work has gone into the pre-arrival support of the students as, due to the typical study plan for direct entry students, the time in the UK is very limited. SPICE and peer mentoring projects aim at meeting students needs in culturally appropriate ways whilst recognising the demand for slow development of skills and understanding, rather than reading an information leaflet or attending a seminar at the start of a trimester. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/15164 Assessing student confidence by gathering visual feedback: a case study in English  Sara Wasson   I see nurturing student confidence as a primary aim of the teaching process, and I devised many activities and assessments with that aim in mind. This is a particular challenge when teaching difficult reading, as is common on literary and cultural theory. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/15163 Building Student Confidence with Reading Diaries: a Case Study in English Sara Wasson Anne Schwan   We teach cultural and literary theory to year 3 learners (SCQF 10) on two compulsory modules in trimesters one and two: Understanding Cultural and Literary Theory and Cultural and Literary Theory into Practice. The reading material for these modules is difficult, and we wanted to find ways to help learners read without getting discouraged. Instead of having two essays for the module’s assessment, we replaced the first essay with a ‘reading diary’ assessment, which we crafted carefully with two aims in mind: (a) to nurture student confidence and (b) to actively encourage students to seek out areas of challenge.   http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/15162 Using a student-run online magazine to enhance student employability: a case study in English Sara Wasson We set up a support framework for students on English and Culture, Media and Society to edit and produce their own annual online magazine, showcasing excellent work done by their student peers.  http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11735 Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre Thomas Middleton Thomas Dekker John Webster Thomas Kyd Emma Smith Anonymous This series of six lectures introduces six plays from the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. Once popular and now little-known, they can tell us a lot about what their first audiences enjoyed, aspired to and worried about - from immigrants in early modern London to the role of women in the household, from what religious changes might mean for attitudes to the dead to fantasies of easy money and social elevation. Each lecture outlines the play so there is no assumption you have already read it, then goes on to try to understand its historical context and its dramatic legacy, drawing parallels with modern film and contemporary culture as well as with Elizabethan material. The lecturer's aim with students in the room and with interested listeners on iTunes U is to broaden our understanding of the theatre Shakespeare wrote for by thinking about some non-Shakespearean drama, and to recreate some of the excitement and dramatic possibilities of the new, popular technology of Renaissance theatre. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11733 The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster (eBook) The Duchess of Malfi / Webster, John, 1580?-1625. This is the epub edition of the play. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11732 The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster In dramatizing a woman's sexual choices in a notably sympathetic manner, this tragedy articulates perennial questions about female autonomy and class distinction. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11731 The Roaring Girl: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker (eBook) The Roaring Girl or Moll Cutpurse / Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton. This is the epub edition of the play. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11730 The Roaring Girl: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker Based on a contemporary scandal of a woman who dressed in male clothing, this play of topsy-turvy genders has fun with some very modern ideas about sexuality, identity and whether we are what we wear. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11729 The Revenger's Tragedy: Thomas Middleton (eBook) The revenger's tragedy / Middleton, Thomas, 1580-1627. This is the epub edition of the play. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11728 The Revenger's Tragedy: Thomas Middleton A blackly camp tragedy - Hamlet without the narcissism - set in a court corrupted by lust and self-interest, this play is both fascinated and repelled by its own depravity. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11727 The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker (eBook) The shoemakers' holiday / Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632. This is the epub version of the play. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11726 The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker Like a Busby Berkeley depression-era musical, Dekker's comedy is a feel-good antidote to a context of shortages, political malaise and general pessimism, but real life in the shape of war, class antagonism and civic tensions, always threatens to intrude. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11725 Arden of Faversham: Anon (eBook) Arden of Feversham / Unknown. This is the epub edition of the play. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11724 Arden of Faversham: Anon A true crime story of the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife and her lover, this play is concerned with the politics of the household, with gender roles within marriage, and presents a black comedy of botched murder attempts rather like The Ladykillers. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11723 The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd (eBook) The Spanish tragedie / Kyd, Thomas, 1558-1594. This is the epub edition of the play. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11722 The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd Popular tragedy in which Hieronimo pursues aristocratic murderers of his son Horatio and takes revenge. It speaks, like Hollywood Westerns, to questions about private revenge versus public justice, and to the vexed religious questions of its age. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11721 Literature, Art and Oxford Phillp Pullman Margaret Kean Judith Priestman Podcasts exploring the relationship between literary works and the artwork and Oxford. From J.R.R Tolkien to Philip Pullman, authors have been inspired by Oxford; the architecture, history and culture of the city. This podcast series includes lectures and events which celebrate and explore the literature and art inspired by Oxford http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11720 Philip Pullman: Lyra's Oxford, Bodleian Library Masterclass Acclaimed author of His Dark Materials Philip Pullman is interviewed by Margaret Kean on his new book, his influences and his method for writing stories http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11719 The Hobbit at the Bodleian: World Book Day Judith Priestman, curator of the Bodleian library, discusses the World Book Day 2010 exhibition, where a selection of J.R.R. Tolkien's original artwork which was used to illustrate The Hobbit, was on display to the public. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11701 Indian Traces in Oxford Richard Sorabji Sumita Mukherjee Amitav Ghosh Anshuman Mondal Alex Riddiford Rupert Arrowsmith Humayun Ansari Elleke Boehmer Indian Traces in Oxford was an exhibition mounted in collaboration with the Bodleian Library, showcasing the remarkably wide range of textual and photographic traces or leavings of Indian students, activists, politicians, artists and others in the Bodleian special collections and College libraries, in the period 1870-1950. The exhibition opened with a half-day workshop, on 1 March 2010, in Convocation House, to be introduced by the acclaimed Indian novelist – and Oxford alumnus – Amitav Ghosh. Indian Traces at Oxford focuses in close detail on Indians' impact on Oxford University’s life and culture. Both the exhibition and the 1 March workshop considers the value and meaning of manuscript traces, how they reflect on the ways in which Indians and Britons interacted in the period, and how we are able to imagine the lives of these early Indian travellers to Oxford into these textual tracks and marks. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11700 Cornelia Sorabji: Jowett's protégée in Oxford 1889-1893 Professor Richard Sorabji (Wolfson College, Oxford) - Cornelia Sorabji: Jowett's protégée in Oxford 1889-1893. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11699 Repainting Ajanta: the global impact of the Frescoes and their copies Dr Rupert Arrowsmith (UCL) - 'Repainting Ajanta: the global impact of the Frescoes and their copies.' http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11698 Tracing Indian students at Oxford before the Second World War Dr Sumita Mukherjee (Oxford) - 'Tracing Indian Students at Oxford before the Second World War' http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11697 Indian imperial crossings and the Oxford hub Professor Elleke Boehmer (Oxford) - 'Indian imperial crossings and the Oxford hub' http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11696 Michael Madhusudan Datta (1824-1873): a young Bengali poet's exam script washes up on Albion's distant shore Dr Alex Riddiford - "Michael Madhusudan Datta (1824-1873): a young Bengali poet's exam script washes up on Albion's distant shore." This reading was delivered by Anshuman Mondal. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11695 Musings of Sir Mohammad Iqbal on the Place of Muslims in late Colonial India: Letters to Edward John Thompson, 1933-1934 Professor Humayun Ansari (RHUL) - 'Musings of Sir Mohammad Iqbal on the Place of Muslims in late Colonial India: Letters to Edward John Thompson, 1933-1934' http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11694 Introduction and Reading Opening of exhibition by Amitav Ghosh and a reading from his In an Antique Land. Introduced by Anshuman Mondal (Brunel). http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11391 Old English: An Introduction Stuart Lee A five-part lecture series delivered by Dr Stuart D Lee, Faculty of English, University of Oxford in October/November 2009. They are introductory lectures aimed at first-year students, taking them through Old English language and literature, its cultural importance, and an overview of the history of the Anglo-Saxon period. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11390 Old English Then and Now (slides) This final lecture looks briefly at how Old English has been reused by modern writers, but specifically at how the Anglo-Saxons have been portrayed on film, and what film studies can do to help us enjoy Old English poetry. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11389 Old English Then and Now This final lecture looks briefly at how Old English has been reused by modern writers, but specifically at how the Anglo-Saxons have been portrayed on film, and what film studies can do to help us enjoy Old English poetry. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11388 Old English Prose (slides) Topics include the first attempts at prose in the English language, 'short stories', historical texts, legal documents, as well as such writers as Alfred the Great, and Aelfric of Eynsham. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11387 Old English Prose Topics include the first attempts at prose in the English language, 'short stories', historical texts, legal documents, as well as such writers as Alfred the Great, and Aelfric of Eynsham. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11386 Old English Poetry (slides) Topics include how Old English poetry works, what the major poems are and how they were performed; what links we can draw with modern poetry and music; basic metrics and devices used for effect, and more. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11384 Old English Language (slides) Topics include how Old English works, and what makes it different from Modern English; where Old English comes from and how it relates to other languages; pronunciation, inflection, dialects and more. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11385 Old English Poetry Topics include how Old English poetry works, what the major poems are and how they were performed; what links we can draw with modern poetry and music; basic metrics and devices used for effect, and more. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11383 Old English Language Topics include how Old English works, and what makes it different from Modern English; where Old English comes from and how it relates to other languages; pronunciation, inflection, dialects and more. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11382 An Introduction to Old English (slides) Topics include who the Anglo-Saxons were, where they came from, and where they settled; the rough period covered in Old English; differences and similarities between Old English and Modern English; the use of runes and more. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11381 An Introduction to Old English Topics include who the Anglo-Saxons were, where they came from, and where they settled; the rough period covered in Old English; differences and similarities between Old English and Modern English; the use of runes and more. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11376 Old English: An Introduction Stuart Lee A five-part lecture series delivered by Dr Stuart D Lee, Faculty of English, University of Oxford in October/November 2009. They are introductory lectures aimed at first-year students, taking them through Old English language and literature, its cultural importance, and an overview of the history of the Anglo-Saxon period. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11375 Old English Then and Now (slides) This final lecture looks briefly at how Old English has been reused by modern writers, but specifically at how the Anglo-Saxons have been portrayed on film, and what film studies can do to help us enjoy Old English poetry. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/11374 Old English Then and Now This final lecture looks briefly at how Old English has been reused by modern writers, but specifically at how the Anglo-Saxons have been portrayed on film, and what film studies can do to help us enjoy Old English poetry.