News 2014

Strong showing for York research in 2014 REF

Posted on Thursday 18 December 2014

York maintains its place in the top tier of UK linguistics departments, ranking 2nd in the country on the proportion of research given the highest ranking: world-leading.

Fête du Français at Acomb Primary School

Posted on Wednesday 17 December 2014

Final-year French students organised a festive Fête du Français at Acomb Primary School to promote language learning in primary schools.

Ambassador Alejandro Estivill's visit to the University of York

Posted on Tuesday 25 November 2014

Alejandro Estivill, Deputy Head of Mission at the Mexican Embassy to the United Kingdom, visited the University of York on 14 November for an event hosted by our department with the aim of promoting cultural activities particularly for students studying languages.

New book co-authored by Ann Taylor

Posted on Tuesday 4 November 2014

Ann Taylor wrote the chapter on Old English Syntax in the new book co-authored with Don Ringe (U. Pennsylvania) "The Development of Old English"

News from the Babylab

Posted on Friday 17 October 2014

Testing babies' preferences using the eye-tracker

New book by Dominic Watt and Carmen Llamas

Posted on Thursday 16 October 2014

A new book "Language, Borders and Identity" edited by Dominic Watt and Carmen Llamas has just been published

Academics in action

Posted on Wednesday 15 October 2014

Staff and students were busy over the summer organising and presenting at conferences

York ranks 48th in the world for Modern Languages

Posted on Thursday 14 August 2014

The recent QS rankings place Modern Languages at York in the World Top 50.

Elaine Lopez awarded HRC Doctoral Fellowship

Posted on Friday 18 July 2014

Our PhD student Elaine Lopez has been awarded an HRC Doctoral Fellowship and won second prize in the project presentation competition.

Department wins 3 YUSU Excellence in Teaching and Supervision awards 2014

Posted on Saturday 14 June 2014

Two staff awards and one departmental award in 2014 ceremony

Le Tour de France virtuel

Posted on Tuesday 22 April 2014

York partners with secondary schools to promote interest in language and culture

Richard Ogden's talk at Café Scientifique

Posted on Thursday 6 March 2014

Richard Ogden informed and entertained a full house at Café Scientifique

Visiting students from Zhejiang University

Posted on Friday 7 February 2014

The department has welcomed 6 visiting students from Zhejiang University this term.

Double success at York Talks

Posted on Sunday 12 January 2014

Our department was well represented at York Talks on 8 January 2014, with two professors, Dunstan Brown and Pino Longobardi, presenting their research in the main showcase event. Two of our PhD students, Catherine Laing and Becky Woods, presented in the final of the university-wide postgraduate research student poster competition.