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.

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.   

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.

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!

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/

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

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.

ALL’s own publications are enriched by including partners the 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