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Creative Learning Skills for Language Students is a participatory workshop for secondary school pupils that seeks to encourage young people to learn languages by exploring perceived barriers, offering solutions and sharing the positive results, wide appeal and relevance of language acquisition.

We use a questionnaire to identify and promote awareness of varying learning styles and discuss the ways in which we need not only sit behind a desk to learn a language. We encourage students to think about their strengths and to be engaged and in control of their own learning. These notions are put to the test through an interactive and multi-sensory exercise in a non-European language and we conclude with a discussion of how experiences in the session can be taken on board and applied to their own language learning.

For more information or to book a session, please contact us at routes@soas.ac.uk.

Please note that this workshop is aimed at pupils with specific learning difficulties such as Dyslexia or Dyspraxia. 

In the case of no-shows or late cancellations, we reserve the right to invoice your school for the costs we have incurred.

Targeted at Year 12 students but Yr 11 are also welcome to apply.

The Languages and Law Summer School will explore the various interfaces between these two subjects as they are taught at four Capital L partner universities (Birkbeck, The University of Westmisnter, London Metropolitan University and SOAS)

The programme will include:

• Monday  29 June - Human Rights: Law, Politics and History
• Tuesday   30 June  -  Law and Urban Space: Thinking about Law in the Street; International Law and  International Commercial Law: Working with French internationally
• Wednesday  1 July - Conference & Public Service Interpreting: facilitating equal access to public  services for migrants and refugees
• Thursday  2 July - Forest Voices: Working on Law and Environment with Indigenous Peoples

For more detail of the programme, please click here.

Students are not required to be studying languages at A-level.

Please see the application form attached. The deadline for submitting the application is 19 June 2015.

The Capital L Summer School gives 30 promising Yr 10 linguists the chance to visit 5 of Capital L’s partner universities and get a feel for what it is like to study languages at each one of them.

Four of our partner universities - King's College London, the School of Oriental and African Study (SOAS), Queen Mary and the University of Westminster - will each host a day of the summer school. The summer school also includes a trip to Paris, where we will visit popular landmarks guided by students from the University of London Institute in Paris. 

The summer school is free of charge. There are 30 places available and priority will be given to students from a widening participation background. 

An information evening for students and their parents will be held on Monday 13th June from 5-7pm at SOAS. Further information will be included with students' confirmation letters, which will be sent in late May/early June. 

Please see the Summer School Cover Letter and Application Form below. The deadline for applications is Tuesday 3rd May 2016.* 

*Deadline extended to Wednesday 18th May 2016 on a first come first serve basis.