ALL has always worked with like-minded partners – individuals and organisations, to further our work of promoting the importance of language learning, supporting teachers and engaging learners of languages.

ALL has always worked with like-minded partners – individuals and organisations, to further our work of promoting the importance of language learning, supporting teachers and engaging learners of languages. We are all links strengthening the chain.

Legacy resources from collaborations

In 2027 we look forward to the return of the UK into the Erasmus+ programme, which supports so much powerful and useful collaboration with others.

Erasmus+ projects produced legacy resources such as:

The Language Magician

A game for Primary learners which collects (anonymously) assessment data.

Please click here for more information

ELAPSE

CPD and classroom resources to support CLIL approaches, available via this link.

ELAPSE
Knights of the European Grail

A cross-curriculum online game.

Please click here for more information.

 

Primary French Project

An example of ALL working on resources with our cultural, Higher Education and other partners.

The Primary French Project was created by IFRU in association with ALL and continues to be available here.

ELAPSE

New collaborative projects evolving this academic year

September – European Day of Languages

September – European Day of Languages Nursery Rhymes resources working with Twinkl.

September – Multilingual Verses

September – Multilingual Verses project working with Sheffield, City of Languages.

Please click here for more information.

February - Development of Nihongo Zone

A new Language Zone for Japanese with the Japan Foundation.

More information coming soon.

March – NEW Show&Tell event prior to Language World

March – NEW Show&Tell event prior to Language World with Corporate Member Discover Education.

March – Careers Webinar

March – Careers webinar project with Corporate Member Rayburn Travel.

Please click here for more information.

Languages Today Special

Languages Today Special – an online magazine celebrating the work of the supplementary and complementary schools, with many partners.

Collaboration is one of the main themes of Language World Conference 2026:

Collaboration is close to the heart of this year’s Co-Presidents, just as Members are at the heart of the whole Association.

Anna Lise Gordon

Steven Fawkes

We hope that colleagues will join us in Hinckley and create, as they always do, connections with new professional friends which will lead to positive outcomes.

As a special pre-Conference event, free to anyone who can make it, we are holding a sponsored Show & Tell on the Thursday evening (March) with light refreshments where we welcome proposals of short inputs from those attending and hope to start to build those bridges. If you can make it please let us know what your idea is and we will build a programme – [email protected]

On this page we will be sharing some of the great outcomes of Collaborations at the moment, or from recent times.

Impact of local collaboration

Liz Lord, ALL Portsmouth

We have been fortunate to have an ALL Primary Hub in Portsmouth for almost ten years. More recently, Portsmouth, City of Languages, a thriving grass-roots initiative, has added momentum to our drive to support and celebrate languages education and all our language learners.  In the past three years, the DfE-funded Solent Language Hub, now the Solent Language Network, has also been successful in energising and motivating language teachers and learners in Portsmouth and the wider area.

We came together to hold a joint meeting of the ALL Primary Hub, the Solent Language Network and the Portsmouth LA Primary Languages Leads.

Bringing colleagues together in this way - from primaries and secondaries, trainee teachers and academics (thank you, Professor Suzanne Graham) - this is how we can improve the language learning journey of our learners, and motivate each other too! And a super presentation on the power of using songs to support language learning from our friends in the north, Catherine Woodward and Michelle Massey - vielen Dank!

Following our meeting it was inspiring to receive such a positive comment as this:
"I just wanted to say thank you for today’s meeting. Anytime we all have the chance to get together and share ideas I really appreciate it and it’s quite honestly the only time I leave an after school meeting feeling energised and almost wishing it was longer!"

Let’s continue to communicate, collaborate and celebrate - it's at the heart of what we do!

Collaborations to raise the profile of all our languages

Cities of languages
Home, Heritage and Community Languages

ALL works with British Council, and many other partners, to share the great work of the Cities of Languages, hosting the webpage: https://www.all-languages.org.uk/cities-of-languages/

Universities

ALL works with British Council, and many other partners, in support of HHCL teachers and learners, by co-chairing the Advocacy Group and hosting the termly webinar, the newsletter and the HHCL webpage: Click here

 

Careers and Languages

Newcastle University Languages Resource Centre engages its multilingual students to support ALLNE in the EDoL writing competition and in the Mother Tongue, Other Tongue celebration which forms part of the Festival.

ALL has worked with partners in the North-East Careers Service to compile video resources and Careers-oriented documentation for the Festival which include the work of ALL Fellow David Binns. Express yourself Careers: Click Here

They link to the Association’s own pages:  Why Study Languages Making the Case Resources and Why Study Languages

See below the new collaboration between ALL and corporate member Rayburn Travel.

Publications

ALL contributes to the publications of partners such as FIPLV.

With The Languages Gateway, a special collaboration with the ALL ITET Forum is in place in 2026: Click here  

ALL’s own publications are enriched by including partners. The examples below are great illustrations of this:

This is not a De-colonising handbook: Read here  (free to members) and

It’s good to talk: Click here for ebook

Languages Today magazine: Read here

ALL Video Resources

This page hosts video items and recordings relating to Collaborations