Latest News
All the latest news from the world of languages and language teaching.
British Council Languages Teacher Training Scholars at Language World
The Languages World conference was held on the 22nd and 23rd of March in the Holywell Park Conference Centre, at Loughborough University. British Council Languages Teacher Training Scholars had the opportunity to attend the second day of this event thanks to a...
Language World 2019
Our annual conference Language World took place on 22-23 March 2019. Thank you again to all our delegates, sponsors and exhibitors for attending and making it a success once again this year. You can now access the session presentations and explore the conference...
Upcoming ALL Elections
ALL’s Council has twelve members who are elected for a three year term. The Council’s role is: • to discuss and Inform the Association's policies and strategies • to contribute to the future development of the Association • to consider proposals for new activities and...
Response to the Welsh Government’s Consultation Document “Our National mission. A transformational Curriculum”
The Association of Language Learning (ALL) and the National Association of Language Advisers (NALA) are extremely concerned by the proposal in the consultation document “Our National mission. A transformational Curriculum” to give discretion to Schools on the...
PowerLanguage online courses now available in England and Wales with your ALL membership
PowerLanguage courses have been supporting teachers in Scotland since 2016. Most primary practitioners teach at least one additional language as part of the Scottish Government 1+2 policy for languages. Courses for Primary Teachers in French and Spanish: Stimulating...
Teacher Briefing 7: Live Language Learning Issues in the Media
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...
BBC Languages Survey
The conclusions of the survey of language learning in UK schools published by the BBC on February 27 2019 emphasise the importance of the work done by the Association for Language Learning (ALL) both in speaking up for languages and their importance to our national...
CLIL at Language World 2019
At this year's Language World conference, there will be a focus on CLIL. On Friday, there will be The thrill of CLIL! with Nadine Chadier. At St Jérôme Bilingual Primary where Nadine works, KS1 pupils learn Geography, Art and P.E. with embedded ICT through all...
Teacher Briefing 6: Consultation and ALL Representation
Background: The relevant section of ALL’s constitution says ……. The Association is established to promote and support the learning and teaching of natural languages. In furtherance of the above object but not further or otherwise the Association may: promote improved...
Language World 2019 Exhibition – Showcasing the latest in language learning resources
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...
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's an exhibition: a large and varied exhibition showcasing the latest in language learning resources and support. -...
ALL response to recent Edexcel AS qualification update
Edexcel has announced this week that AS qualifications in French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Italian and Russian will be withdrawn and the final assessment opportunity will be summer 2020. To access the recent announcement, please explore the Edexcel website. Jane...
Hong Kong Poet inspires Mandarin beginners
This term, Year 4 pupils at Harris Primary Academy East Dulwich took part in the Southbank Centre’s ‘China Changing Festival’ schools’ poetry project with a workshop from Jennifer Wong, a renowned poet from Hong Kong. After listening to Ms Wong read some of her poems...
Erasmus+ Schools funding available for 2019
€36 million of Erasmus+ Schools funding is proposed in 2019 for UK schools and colleges providing general, vocational or technical education to pupils aged 3 – 18 years. This is an increase from €30 million in 2018. Funding for schools – apply now Interested in...
Languages Teacher Training Scholarship
In 2016, The Department for Education launched a new prestigious scholarship programme to support applicants wishing to train to be a modern foreign languages teacher in England, and successful Languages Teacher Training Scholars (LTTS) receive a scholarship of...
Response to Ofqual Announcement on A-level Severe Grading
Following the announcement from Ofqual on severe grading in A-level Modern Foreign Languages, the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), the Association for Language Learning (ALL), the Independent Schools Modern Languages Association (ISMLA) and the...
Tribute to Kathy Wicksteed
Kathy receiving her ALL Fellowship Award from ALL president Anna Lise Gordon at Language World 2017 The first time I met Kathy was in 1997 when we were both interviewed for the same job at Campion School in Northampton. Kathy looked very striking in a bright red suit...
ALL Corporate Member of the Month – Institut français
Explore upcoming events as well as a range of resources from ALL Corporate Member of the month, Institut français EVENTS: 9-11 November 2018 - Language Show Live Whether you’re a language teacher, professional, or just love languages, attend three inspirational days...
Click, Connect, Learn – online language mentoring
The Click, Connect, Learn fund is funded by Nesta and was launched in order to explore how digital technology could work to make volunteer tutoring more accessible. In 2017, Language Futures was announced as one of three organisations to receive a grant to model,...
ELAPSE – Embedding Languages across Primary and Secondary Education
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...
Consultations
Responding as a community to issues which concern the teaching of languages.
Media centre
Press releases & open letters from the Association for Language Learning.