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The Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Languages of the Wider World (LWW CETL) is a HEFCE-funded collaboration between SOAS and UCL. Its aim is to promote and support excellence in the teaching and learning of languages that do not have a large presence in UK Higher Education, i.e. the languages of the Middle East, Africa, Asia, the Netherlands , Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Russia.

LWW CETL is committed to the following objectives:

Enhancing the UK's competence in languages of increasing strategic, commercial and civic importance

Furthering SOAS and UCL's expertise in the development and evaluation of curriculum, learning materials and teaching techniques

Bridging the gap between pedagogical research and classroom practice

Promoting innovation in technology-enhanced language learning and other pedagogies

Redressing the imbalance that exists between the HE sector's investment in the teaching and learning of less-commonly and more-commonly taught languages

Raising the national and international profile of academic activity devoted to these languages

Creating a focal point from which teaching innovations and curricular enhancements can be disseminated

Generating an exchange of experience from SOAS and UCL with other parts of the UK HE sector and across the EU and the rest of the world

Increasing the number of students opting to study less-commonly taught languages

Improving languages learning facilities across SOAS and UCL

Providing personal development opportunities for language teachers

Location: Room 442, Phillips Buildings, Russell Square

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7898 4516

Fax: +44 (0)20 7898 4859

E-mail: lww-cetl@soas.ac.uk

Address: Languages of the Wider World CETL, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London, WC1H 0XG