by Clodagh Cooney | Mar 7, 2019 | Italian News, News, Primary News, Secondary News, Student News, Teacher Briefings
Background: A considerable number of advisory documents, reports, campaigns and recommendations have emerged in the public domain in the last few weeks, many of them with input from ALL members. This Briefing (necessarily longer than usual) provides a few selected...
by Clodagh Cooney | Feb 19, 2019 | ITET news, News, Primary News, Secondary News, Student News, Uncategorized
Speaking up for Languages – Language World 2019 Language World, the Association for Language Learning’s annual conference and CPD event offers a packed programme from across the languages sector. It also hosts an exhibition showcasing the latest in language...
by Clodagh Cooney | Jan 31, 2019 | ALL Event, ALL Language, Events, ITET events, News, Primary events, Primary News, Secondary events, Trainee events
Language World, the Association for Language Learning’s annual conference and CPD event offers a packed programme from across the languages sector. – It’s an exhibition: a large and varied exhibition showcasing the latest in language learning resources and...
by Clodagh Cooney | Oct 23, 2018 | Initiatives, News, Primary News, Project News
In September, we received some fantastic news from the British Council – ALL is part of a successful KA2 ERASMUS + application and along with our partners has been awarded funding for the ELAPSE project. ELAPSE (Embedding Languages Across Primary and Secondary...
by Clodagh Cooney | Oct 16, 2018 | News, Primary News, Secondary News, Student News
Nurturing yourself, personally and professionally Quality connections Time to grow as a MFL teacher Your career as a teacher has begun… This mini publication is designed to support you to become an outstanding MFL NQT with some suggestions that will set you well on...
by Victoria Mitchell | May 1, 2018 | ALL News, News, Primary News, Secondary News, Student News
Hackney Learning Trust was invited by Baroness Cousins, (Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Languages), to showcase their unique MFL provision to the committee at the House of Lords on Monday 19 March. A team made up of experts, consultants, teachers...
by Victoria Mitchell | Apr 13, 2018 | ALL News, News, Primary News, Secondary News, Student News
More than three in four British business leaders believe speaking Mandarin will give school leavers a career advantage over their counterparts, according to a survey published this week by YouGov. The new survey, commissioned by the Mandarin Excellence Programme, aims...
by charlottelr | Feb 2, 2018 | ALL News, Primary News
The Northern Ireland Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (NICILT), has recently launched a call for undergraduate students of French, Irish and Spanish at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) to ‘adopt a class’ of twelve year olds at their former...
by Victoria Mitchell | Feb 1, 2018 | Primary News, Secondary News, Student News
Guest blog by ALL Student Ambassadors, Florence Brown and Tessa Stevenson, who attended the APPG meeting at the House of Lords An All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) meeting was held on Monday 29 January at the House of Lords on the topic of the cognitive benefits of...
by Victoria Mitchell | Jan 24, 2018 | Features, News, Primary Features, Primary News, Secondary Features, Secondary News, Student Features, Student News
Are you a French teacher? A teacher of other subjects in French? A trainer? A language leader or coordinator? A French language assistant ? A student teacher ? A head of school or language department? Becoming a member on IFprofs is FREE and will help you: 1) Find...
by Victoria Mitchell | Jan 19, 2018 | Primary News, Secondary News, Student News
Here at the Association for Language Learning (ALL) we like to keep members up to date with initiatives which will support your practice. We would therefore like to draw your attention to a new online, open-access journal called “Languages, Society and Policy” run by...
by Victoria Mitchell | Jan 15, 2018 | News, Primary News, Secondary News
Nominations for ALL Fellowship 2018 are now open! The award of fellowship recognises ALL Individual Members who have made a long-standing contribution to language learning in the UK. This will be beyond the call of their professional role and may be on a national or...
