Trinity College Cambridge Essay Competition: “‘People who speak two or more languages or dialects sometimes switch between them within the same conversation, and even within the same sentence. What reasons make people switch languages (or dialects)? Why is this interesting for linguists? Should linguists prescribe if switching is good or bad?’” Deadline 1st August
Oxford University Dante 800 Competition: Submit a visual response or a poem or prose piece – as a response to Lucifer (recommended for KS3/4), Limbo (recommended for KS4/5), or an ‘open response’ to Dante or his writings. All entries should fit on one sheet of A4 and be uploaded to the entry website. Deadline April 29th.
Prismatic Jane Eyre Creative Translation: Students aged 11-19 are asked to reimagine a selected passage from the novel Jane Eyre as a poem in any language other than English. Anyone aged 11-19 who speaks another language, at home or at school, to any level of fluency can enter. Up to 100 entries will be published in a printed anthology as well as on Oxford University’s webpage. Deadline 1st March
Anthea Bell Prize: By providing teachers with the tools they need to bring translation to life, the prize aims to motivate more pupils to study modern foreign languages throughout their time at school and beyond. Teaching packs are available in 4 levels in 5 languages (French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Spanish), covering all year groups at secondary school from age 11 to 18. By providing teachers with the tools they need to bring translation to life, the organisers hope to motivate more pupils to study modern foreign languages throughout their time at school and beyond.
Teaching packs are available in 4 levels in 5 languages (French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Spanish), covering all year groups at secondary school from age 11 to 18. Deadline 8th April.
