by Michael Richardson During my secondary school education, I took part in a wide range of musical activities: musical theatre, orchestral playing and singing in the school choir. Later as an undergraduate this hobby was to provide a useful refuge from academia, singing as I did in various choral ensembles as well as student opera […]
Month: November 2016
New project on BSL Syntax !
Our newest BSL team member Dr Jordan Fenlon has been successful in securing an AHRC grant as a Co-Investigator on a project on BSL syntax. The project aims to document and describe word order and non-manual features in different types of British Sign Language sentences. The project team includes Principal Investigator Kearsy Cormier (University College London) and Co-Investigators Adam […]
Heriot-Watt University BSL interpreting placements 2016-2017
By Jemina Napier <Click here to see this blog post in BSL> Our first cohort of students from the BSL/English interpreting 4-year undergraduate programme graduated in June 2016. Most of the graduates have registered with either the Scottish Association of Sign Language Interpreters (SASLI) or the National Registers of Communication Professionals with working with Deaf […]
Foundation Students do Real Research
by Olwyn Alexander Teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is about more than developing students’ English language and study skills; it also involves Academic Purposes, i.e. research and scholarship. I’ve been interested for some time in ways to develop the research capability of students with an intermediate level of English proficiency (CEFR B1, IELTS […]