Marianne Connors
Conferences/Symposiums
7th May 2015: | 4th International Symposium on Discourse Markers in Romance Languages: A Contrastive Approach (Universität Heidelberg)Ecoute: fonctions pragmatiques & sous-titrage ​Poster presentation |
29th April 2015: | Postgraduate Research Showcase 2015 (University of Exeter)Look, is that the best thing to say? Poster presentation |
26th June 2014: | Association for French Language Studies (AFLS) Conference 2014 (University of Kent)Exploring Pragmatic Particles in French Film Dialogue Conference paper |
28th April 2014: | Postgraduate Research Showcase 2014 (University of Exeter)Ecoute: Film Dialogue vs Subtitling Poster presentation |
25th April 2014: | College of Humanities PGR Conference 2014 (University of Exeter)Pragmatic Particles in Subtitling: a Need to Shift the Boundary Poster presentation Competition winner (most engaged with the conference theme of "shifting boundaries") |
20th March 2013: | Department of Modern Languages Postgraduate Research Seminar (University of Exeter)Politeness and Facework in French to English Subtitling Oral presentation |
Teacher Training/Qualifications
5th March 2015: | Recognised as Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) |
February 2014: | Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (LTHE) Stage 2University of Exeter teacher training programme for Postgraduate Teaching Assistants.
Course covers: teaching methods; planning; assessment; marking; feedback and evaluating practice |
20th September 2013: | Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (LTHE) Stage 1One-day introduction to teaching in a higher education environment. |
War in Other Words
1st April 2015: | RoundtableRoundtable co-organised with fellow ML PGR student, Sandra Daroczi, to aid the planning of the War in Other Words project.
Invited speakers were Suzanne Steele (War poet & Official Canadian War Artist; Project lead on 'The Long Goodbye') and Anna-Marie Linnell (Co-organiser of 'Staging Exeter'). |
2015: | Project Creation & PlanningPublic engagement project created and run by Exeter Modern Languages PGR students.
This project aims to engage school children, students and the public with non-English stories from WWI (letters, poems, songs etc.); to get them involved in translating these stories and making audio recordings (in both English and the original language). This project will be ongoing until 2019. |