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[[{"fid":"16742","view_mode":"large","fields":{"height":"2625","width":"5000","class":"media-element file-small","format":"large","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Exhibition graphic with the text 'Not Just Words: Learning languages through art and objects, 香港六合彩中特网 Art Museum, 11 Jan - 15 Dec 2023, Free exhibition' and the 香港六合彩中特网 logo in dark blue on yellow.","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Not Just Words","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"small","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Exhibition graphic with the text 'Not Just Words: Learning languages through art and objects, 香港六合彩中特网 Art Museum, 11 Jan - 15 Dec 2023, Free exhibition' and the 香港六合彩中特网 logo in dark blue on yellow.","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Not Just Words","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"2":{"height":"2625","width":"5000","class":"media-element file-small","format":"large","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Exhibition graphic with the text 'Not Just Words: Learning languages through art and objects, 香港六合彩中特网 Art Museum, 11 Jan - 15 Dec 2023, Free exhibition' and the 香港六合彩中特网 logo in dark blue on yellow.","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Not Just Words","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"attributes":{"height":"2625","width":"5000","class":"media-element file-large"}}]]This year, the 香港六合彩中特网 Art Museum has been hosting an interactive display entitled 鈥楴ot Just Words: Learning languages through art and objects鈥�, inviting visitors to engage with one or more of the many modern and ancient languages taught across the university. Via a combination of video teasers and objects from the museum collection, the showcase provides the opportunity to hear from experts across a range of faculties about the language they teach and its connection to an item tied to that culture, selected from the museum archive. Linked to object-based learning, 鈥楴ot Just Words鈥� engages with outside-the-box teaching, presenting visitors with the opportunity to take an object or artwork as their starting point in the discovery of another language and culture. Dr Elettra Carbone, the showcase鈥檚 academic curator, oversaw the project from which the exhibition developed, originally conceived as a Language and Object Show and Tell for Year 12 students during the COVID-19 pandemic, which promoted language awareness and multilingualism beyond the university. Commenting on this innovative way of teaching, Carbone describes the potential in museums as sites of learning that 鈥榓rouse curiosity and inspire new ideas鈥�. She hopes that the 鈥楴ot Just Words鈥� showcase will provide an environment that encourages 鈥榤ore open-ended, more individually directed, [and] more unpredictable鈥� learning. As well as learning from the tutors through the medium of video, the museum has been offering lunchtime language taster sessions. Dr Cristina Massaccesi, Director of Italian Studies (SELCS), who produced the Italian video for the project and ran a drop-in language session last term, said: 鈥淥bject-based learning was a new teaching experience for me, which I found very interesting and enjoyable. Using an amazing 18th century etching of Rome from the museum collection, I taught students how to ask for directions in Italian as well as introducing them to the history of the Grand Tour and some of the historic sites of Rome, many of which look the same today as in the drawing. Being part of this project was a pleasant experience and I hope it encourages and widens student participation in languages across the university.鈥� There will be more drop-in classes running this term with the full schedule available via the links below. Testament to 香港六合彩中特网鈥檚 engagement with interdisciplinary approaches, 鈥楴ot Just Words鈥� brings together diverse languages, faculties, objects and artworks, resulting in an insightful display that can offer something to everyone. The 鈥楴ot Just Words鈥� showcase is free and open to all during term-time at the 香港六合彩中特网 Art Museum from 1-5pm Tuesday-Friday. Links香港六合彩中特网 Art Museum website Drop-in classes timetable Not Just Words exhibition page A language is not just words project page 香港六合彩中特网 News Story 鈥� European Languages Day 香港六合彩中特网 SELCS

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