Director The Association for Language Learning, the national subject association for teachers of modern languages, is seeking a new Director to provide vision and leadership for the organisation at a time of change both within the Association and in language teaching...
Born Global: Rethinking Language Policy for 21st Century Britain A new policy research project investigating the extent and nature of language needs in the job market, and the implications for language education from school to higher education, has set out to...
DfE clarification on secondary school accountability measures The Government has proposed revisions to secondary school accountability measures, and there has been some confusion around this. For clarification, there is an additional new measure which will be the...
International Education Week British Council International Education Week 2013 takes place 18-24 November 2013, and marks something extraordinary and exciting in the UK which everyone, including parents, school teachers and children, can be involved in. This week...
Billy Brick (Coventry University, Coventry) INTRODUCTION Most UK HE institutions provide the opportunity for students to study a foreign language or languages alongside their main degree subject. Institution-wide Language Provision (IWLP) sometimes referred to as...
Maria José Veiga (Researcher at the University of Aveiro, Transmedia Portugal) INTRODUCTION In the second half of the 20th century, foreign language teaching methods within the Portuguese Education system have proved to be translation resistant. By the end of the...
