Express Yourself in Lockdown

by | Jan 20, 2021 | ALL Event, ALL News, Celebration, Competitions, Corporate Member News, French Zone, German Zone, Language News, News, Primary, Primary News, Secondary, Secondary News, Spanish Zone, What's New

We all know that Speaking a language confidently and coherently is an important thing, and forms a critical part of linguistic and cultural development for all learners of languages. One of the impacts of COVID-19 has meant that many pupils have had fewer...

Strictly in Isolation

by | Jul 22, 2020 | ALL Event, ALL Language, ALL Local, ALL News, Competitions, East Anglia, East Midlands, London, News, North East, North East Event, North West, Northern Ireland, Online Event, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, What's New, Yorkshire & Humber

Poetry in other languages celebration – pilot 2020 This is a spin-off from the competition (Strictly Speaking) which ALLNE had planned to pilot this year in the region and which was not possible in the circumstances. It targets Year 8 students in the hope of...

Mother Tongue Other Tongue Poetry Competition

by | Jun 19, 2020 | Arabic events, Competitions, French events, German events, Italian events, Japanese events, Language News, Mandarin events, News, Portuguese events, Primary, Primary events, Russian events, Secondary, Secondary events, Spanish events, What's New, World languages events

This year's Routes into Languages East Mother Tongue Other Tongue poetry competition is now open. It is aimed at encouraging school students whose first language wasn't English to share their Mother Tongue by remembering or creating poetry written in their 'Mother...

The Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry

by | May 11, 2020 | Arabic event, Arabic events, Arabic News, Competitions, French event, French events, German event, German events, German News, Italian event, Italian events, Italian News, Japanese event, Japanese events, Japanese News, Language News, Language Zones, Mandarin event, Mandarin events, Mandarin news, News, Portuguese events, Portuguese news, Russian event, Russian events, Russian news, Secondary News, Spanish event, Spanish events, What's New, World Languages, World languages events, World languages news

Those of us who were at Language World earlier this year will remember the inspiring keynote talk by Charlotte Ryland, from the Translation Exchange and the Stephen Spender Trust. She really enthused the audience with the creative teaching possibilities of poetry...