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All the latest news from the world of languages and language teaching.An update from: Oak National Academy
Oak is changing. As you know Oak National Academy came about over a very short timescale during the 2020 Easter holiday as a coming together of teachers, schools and academy trusts. They had the vision, and some capacity, to pull together a fully functioning...
Endangered and Minoritised Languages of Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Endangered and Minoritised Languages of Eastern and Southeastern Europe PROLang event on the endangered and minoritised languages of Eastern and Southeastern Europe (and beyond). 07 May 2024, 1:00 pm–5:00 pm Quite a few of the languages spoken in Eastern and...
News: Language Learning in Britain (The Conversation)
We are pleased to signpost a couple of articles that have appeared recently in The Conversation, and which make a strong case for the value of language learning, intercultural education and international mobility. ‘The UK is poorer without Erasmus – it’s time to...
News: AI and the Value of Language Learning
UCFL’s Chair, Professor Emma Cayley, recently joined colleagues across the sector to comment on current challenges and initiatives to promote languages learning, particularly in the context of perceived threats or opportunities raised by AI. Their comments feature in...
New on the ALL website (April 2024)
New on the ALL website (April 2024) The website is regularly refreshed with content contributed by ALL Council , ALL members, volunteers, cultural partners, corporate members and others. In April 2024 you might want to have a scroll through :...
Going from “have to” to “want to”
…when I’m thinking about HOW to teach some required content, the question I try to keep in mind to guide me is “why would they want to do that?” In this article, I will focus on how we can create engaging writing tasks that intrinsically motivate students… Please click here to read the full article.
Association for Language Learning welcomes New Schools Languages Programme
The Association for Language Learning welcomes the announcement by the Department of Education to invest £14.9 million over the next three years to boost language education. ALL supports the programme’s aim to increase the uptake of languages at Key Stage 4 and 5. Liz...
Ministers put £15m towards tackling decline in language learning in England
Ministers have awarded an almost £15m contract to tackle the systemic decline in the number of pupils in England taking foreign languages at GCSE and A-level. University College London’s Institute of...
UCL: Preserving endangered languages as 3D shapes
Preserving endangered languages as 3D shapes by University College London 3D printed objects from English (left) and Tariana (right) prototypes (above). Credit: Mike Lucibella Half of the world's languages are endangered and more than a thousand are expected to be...
“My Native Language Doesn’t Have The Word For It”
35 People Share What Words In Foreign Languages They Absolutely Love Using Every language boasts words that are one of a kind. While certain ones are easier to pronounce, others might make a foreigner sound like Pink Panther trying to buy a dam-burrr-gheur. Some,...
The Guardian: UK business groups call for more foreign-language teaching in colleges
Exclusive: Report reveals postcode lottery as barely half FE institutions offer some form of language teaching Students in a foreign-language class learning Spanish. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian Business groups and language experts are calling on...
NALA Resource for Grammar (Primary and Secondary)
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Express Yourself North East Festival of Languages 2023
#CelebrateSpeaking 2023
Celebrate Speaking! Speaking a modern foreign language confidently and coherently is an important part of the MFL curriculum throughout the four devolved education departments in the United Kingdom and forms a critical part of linguistic and cultural development for...
Virtual Exchange interviews – with reward
A message from Muge Satar at Newcastle University (NB K-12 = pre-school, primary and secondary education). Have you organised a virtual exchange (also known as COIL, telecollaboration, globally networked learning, etc.) for K-12 education? Would you like to share...
Publishers Association and Oak Academy
ALL as a member of CfSA (Council for Subject Associations) has received correspondence from the Publishers Association in connection with this TES article. It concerns the status of the Oak Academy....
Granular Trends in Languages in HE
The British Academy and UCML have released a new report examining granular trends in language learning and provision at UK universities. https://university-council-modern-languages.org/2022/11/29/new-report-language-learning-in-higher-education-granular-trends/ ...
New on the ALL website…
In this occasional News feature, we point you at some of the highlight contributions you might otherwise have missed! Locate the content by navigating across the content headings of the website: https://www.all-languages.org.uk/ About News Trainee...
Good news: Our Patrons
We are delighted to announce that our longstanding patron Professor David Crystal will be joined by Baroness Coussins, who has accepted an invitation by the Association’s trustees. Baroness Coussins, who co-chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages...
Tribute to HM Queen Elizabeth II (1926 – 2022) by the Association for Language Learning
The trustees and officers of the Association for Language Learning are saddened by the news of the Queen Elizabeth II’s death. Queen Elizabeth has been a role-model of international diplomacy throughout her seventy-year reign. Her in-depth understanding and...
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