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...
by cristahazell | 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...
by cristahazell | May 11, 2020 | French Zone, German Zone, Language News, News, Other Event, Resources, Secondary, Secondary events, Secondary News, Spanish Zone, Student News, Wales, What's New
Professor Claire Gorrara, one of our inspirational speakers at Language World 2020, spoke to the conference direct from Cardiff University about the language mentoring project which started in Wales and is now available to schools in England through the Languages...
by cristahazell | May 11, 2020 | ALL Local, ALL News, French Zone, Language News, News, North East, Secondary News
I just wanted to get in touch with you to say a huge thank you to ALL, ALLNE staff and volunteers especially Steven Fawkes and René Koglbauer-Franklin for the incredible support we have been receiving as we develop our Newcastle City of Languages initiative. In terms...
by cristahazell | Apr 28, 2020 | ALL News, ALL Sector, Corporate Member News, Discussion Area, Features, Language News, News, What's New
UK Council for Subject Associations launches directory to support educators The Association of Language Learning (ALL), like many other subject associations is experiencing a surge in demand for practical resources to support home learning as schools close to all but...