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Lecturer and Project Manager
Canolfan Gwasanaethau Cymraeg, Peniarth and Rhagoriaeth
Tel: 01267225110
Email: kara.lewis@uwtsd.ac.uk
Role in the University
Kara lectures on the Sabbatical Scheme Welsh courses for education practitioners, specializing in language teaching and learning methodology as well as contributing to the Welsh language provision on BA Education and PGCE courses.
Kara also manages the Postgraduate Certificate in Language Policy and Planning for the University.
Other responsibilities include curriculum design course authoring as well as contributing to Peniarth’s publications and provision.
Background
Kara has worked in the field of teaching Welsh throughout her career. She has worked in universities to author and provide Welsh language courses for the community, the education workforce and the care and medical workforces.
In addition, in her role as Director of the Madog Centre, University of Rio Grande, she organized events, research projects and supported international activity together with managing the undergraduate Welsh language, history and literature course programme.
For a time, she lectured in Subtitling for the University of Wales, Lampeter, and now contributes to the Subtitling Postgraduate Certificate at UWTSD.
She has travelled extensively throughout North America lecturing, teaching and holding workshops with organizations such as Cymdeithas Madog, NAASWCH and the NAFOW.
Member Of
- 2023–2024 Leap Fellow
Academic Interests
- Sabbatical Scheme
- BA Education
- PGCE
- Postgraduate Certificate in Language Policy and Planning
Research Interests
- Language Policy and Planning
- Subtitling
- Technology and language learning and teaching
- Methodologies for learning and teaching the Welsh Language
- Wellbeing and pastoral care of students and staff
Expertise
- Teaching Welsh as a second language
- Language acquisition
- Methodologies and methods of language acquisition
- Technology and the teaching of the Welsh language
- Wellbeing and pastoral care
Enterprise, Commercial and Consultancy Activities
- Impact Wales Advisory Board 2022 to 2023
- Educational Lead ieithgar.cymru
Publications
- Llun a Thrin, editor, Peniarth 2019
- Beth welwch chi? 2 with Llio Dyfri Jones, Maureen Williams, Meleri Jones, Rhian Davies, Nia Evans, Catrin Phillips, Catrin Evans-Thomas, Peniarth 2019
- Teach Yourself: Speak Welsh With Confidence, with Christine Jones, Hodder & Stoughton 2006