YSJ Japanese Society won FOUR awards at the Student Union awards night 2023! Event of the Year (geisha night); Non-Committee Member of the Year (Pete), Committee of the Year; and Society of the Year! Massive congratulations, well-deserved credit for all your hard work.
Korean Festival 2023 Our annual Korean festival was held on June 3rd, and what a great event!!! A huge variety of Korean hands-on activities, Korean food (supplied by our amazing catering team) and a sell out show in the evening featuring our very own K-Dance society. Huge congratulations to everyone Read more
Kwansei University By Emily Mott “get stuck in and try many different foods, travel around Japan as much as you can” If you get the opportunity to study abroad in Japan then it’s an experience that you cannot pass up! I am studying abroad in Nishinomiya, which is right in Read more
The Students as Researchers scheme is one of many, additional opportunities open to Languages and Linguistics students at York St John University. The Students as Researchers Scheme enables York St John students to undertake paid research work alongside staff supervisors. The Students as Researchers Scheme offers a Read more
Held annually, York Festival of Ideas offers a range of events from inspiring talks and exhibitions to performances in York. Contributing to this year’s Festival of Ideas were a group of academic staff and students from the School of Languages and Linguistics. Titled ‘exploring Englishes in the world’ the aims of their series of talks and presentations were to showcase the vitality of Englishes around the world and to address and contest traditional notions around the ‘ownership’ of English.
Image: Event Contributors. Stood: (From the left) Dr Indu Meddegama (Event Lead and lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL), Sean Foyle (3rd year, BA Japanese & TESOL), Brandon Woodcock (2nd year, BA Linguistics and TESOL), Prof Chris Hall (Professor of Applied Linguistics) & Thomas Young (PA to the Vice-chancellor and current MA Creative Writing student) Seated: (From the left) Niamh O’Shea (3rd year, BA Linguistics and TESOL), Dr Chisato Danjo (Lecturer in Japanese and Linguistics), Dr Linda Walz (Visiting Lecturer in Linguistics) & Dr Sarah Lawson Welsh (Associate Professor in English and Postcolonial Literature).
Sean Foyle (3rd year, BA Japanese and TESOL) co-presented with Dr Chisato Danjo ‘Exploring Englishes in Japan’.
