by cristahazell | Aug 2, 2020 | ALL News, Language News, News, What's New
Report from: Internationalism Alliance webinar hosted by the British Council and The Prince’s Trust Monday 20th July 2020 The mission of the Alliance is to ensure that internationalism is interwoven in every young person’s education, life and experiences...
by cristahazell | Jul 30, 2020 | Corporate Member News, Discussion Area, Language News, News
On July 29th, the ALL-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages (APPG MFL) submitted the following to the Migration Advisory Committee : Call for the inclusion of teachers of all modern foreign language, and public service interpreters and translators, on the...
by cristahazell | Jul 26, 2020 | Language News, News, What's New
The OWRI-funded ‘Creative Multilingualism’ project has published a report about their research outlining the impact of creative approaches to language learning in schools. Creativity with Languages in Schools documents work involving 95 partner schools, 250...
by cristahazell | Jul 8, 2020 | ALL News, Corporate Member News, Discussion Area, Language News, News, Secondary News, What's New
PRESS RELEASE: July 8, 2020 Towards a National Languages Strategy: Education and Skills The Association for Language Learning (ALL) welcomes the proposals put forward in the new report from the British Academy and partners “Towards a National Languages...
by cristahazell | Jul 1, 2020 | ALL News, Corporate Member, Corporate Member News, Discussion Area, Language News, News, Teacher Briefings, What's New
Theme: Language Trends 2020 Background: The annual Language Trends report was published here in late June: https://www.britishcouncil.org/research-policy-insight/research-reports/language-trends-2020 Key messages: We have extracted here some of the key findings of...
by cristahazell | Jul 1, 2020 | Corporate Member News, Language News, News, Primary, Primary News, Secondary News, Wales
A new approach to language learning in Wales. The importance of celebrating and underlining the strength of home languages for many of our multilingual pupils. Pupils in Wales already have the opportunity of a bilingual foundation at nursery and primary level. Close...
by cristahazell | Jun 19, 2020 | Action research, Discussion Area, Events, Language News, News, Primary, Secondary, Secondary News, What's New
Teaching and Learning Languages in Primary Schools: Putting Research into Practice. A new MOOC (free online course). A team of researchers at the Universities of Southampton, Essex and Reading have developed a free online course, open to anyone, to encourage...
by cristahazell | 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...
by cristahazell | May 17, 2020 | Language News, News, Secondary News, Wales, What's New
What can be done to inspire an uplift for modern foreign languages across Wales in the future? Lucy Jenkins, the national co-ordinator for the Modern Foreign Languages Student Mentoring Project and also project development manager for Language Horizons, a digital...
by cristahazell | May 12, 2020 | ALL Local, ALL News, Language News, News, North East, Other Event, What's New
At a time when Language learning and cultural diversity in England are again under pressure it is nice to hear of projects that are championing an international ethos for personal, social and economic purposes. The city of Newcastle has set up International Newcastle...
by cristahazell | May 11, 2020 | Corporate Member, German Discussions, German event, German Network, German News, German Zone, Language News, News, Other Event, Secondary News, What's New
Call for Abstracts – Submission Open The next International German Teacher Conference (IDT2021) will take place in Summer 2021 in Vienna, Austria. The call for abstracts is open from 1st April until 15th September 2020 so please do get thinking about what you...
by cristahazell | May 11, 2020 | ALL Sector, CM Event, Corporate Member, Corporate Member News, German Discussions, German event, German Network, German News, German Zone, Language News, News, Primary, Secondary, What's New
Nominations for the 17th Annual German Teacher Award are open, again but are closing soon! Our wonderful colleagues at the German Embassy in London have extended their deadline to nominate your outstanding German Teacher! Exciting! So a reminder of what you need to...
