Learning & Teaching Resources

IT facilities and language laboratories

Students in the School of Languages and Social Sciences have access to:

• four dedicated LSS computer rooms;
• the Cadbury Room - a group-working area and library;
• a DVD library (French, Spanish, German, English);
• a friendly support team (David Pollard, Sarah Hayes and Jayan Leigh)!

These facilities are in addition to central ones - there are many computer rooms and group work spaces around the university.

Software

As well as standard software such as Microsoft Office, we provide:

• language learning material for French, German, Spanish and English ("how to" video);
• research software (NVIVO and PASW/SPSS);
• audio and video-editing tools;
• corpus linguistics tools (Wordsmith and Antconc).

Computer Assisted Translation Tools

• We teach TRADOS and are a member of the SDL Certification University Programme.
  http://www.translationzone.com/en/community/academic-portal/

• We teach memoQ and are a member of the Kilgray Academic Programme.
  http://kilgray.com/

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Support for students with additional needs / Additional University teaching facilities / Academic Support

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