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Modern Languages & Applied Linguistics (MLAL) will welcome over 160 Transition Year students and their teachers to campus on Tuesday, November 28 to take part in "#ThinkLanguages: The University of Limerick experience".
The event is part of the national ThinkLanguages Week organised by Languages Connect, an initiative which seeks to link Transition Year students with Irish HEIs and encourage more students to continue with their language learning.
The event will open with the Irish comedian, writer and actor Killian Sundermann talking about his highly successful sketches on intercultural interactions and Florence LeBaron-Earle launching the national CultureShocked! for TY Competition.
Students will then take part in a range of workshops including German hip-hop, making intercultural videos, language & cultural tasters for Japanese and Arabic, an escape room and quiz.
The event has been organised by Jean Conacher and Catherine Jeanneau with the support and participation of MLAL staff and students. The event is kindly funded by Languages Connect as part of a wider range of language promotion activities supporting the national strategy document "Languages Connect – Ireland’s Strategy for Foreign Languages in Education 2017–2026".
Throughout ThinkLanguages Week, MLAL will also be undertaking a number of school visits with staff members presenting language-learning opportunities in UL and student ambassadors available online to share their experience of learning languages.