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#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...
ALL Statement on 2022 GCSE Results.
ALL President Kim Bower comments on this year’s results: “On behalf of the Association for Language Learning, I want to congratulate GCSE modern language students on their results, especially since they have had the challenge of undertaking a great deal of work...
The Hidden Gems of France by VivaLing Online Language Academy
Come and join Vivaling for a series of participative workshops giving you the chance to learn more about the hidden gems of French culture. Forget quiche lorraine, the Loire valley and Paris. We guarantee you will learn something new and have the chance to practice...
What is the most spoken language in the world 2022?
What is the most spoken language in the world 2022? Top 10 spoken languages, globally. ANNA KAUFMAN | USA TODAY Language forms the backbone of communal existence. If you've ever traveled to a place where you don't speak the language, it doesn't take long to discover...
ALL Statement on 2022 A level and AS results.
ALL Statement on 2022 A level results. ALL President Professor Kim Bower, speaking about this year’s A and AS results in England, Wales and Northern Ireland said. “Above all we want to celebrate the fact that we have been able to return to near-normality for...
New on the ALL website
New on the website: July 2022 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/...
BBC Future: How our brains cope with speaking more than one language
How our brains cope with speaking more than one language By Nicole Chang. This article was first published on BBC Future on July 20th and you can read it in full here. Speaking a second or even a third language can bring obvious advantages, but occasionally the...
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Transition from and to HE
Transition from and to HE Research-publishing.net announces a new accessible book, entitled "Innovative language teaching and learning at university: facilitating transition from and to higher education", edited by Cathy Hampton and Sandra Salin it is freely...
Tribute to Professor Zoltán Dörnyei
Tribute to Professor Zoltán Dörnyei I was so very sorry to learn of Professor Zoltán Dörnyei‘s death last week. Although I only met him once at a CILT ITET conference, I consider myself to be one of ‘the thousands of teachers worldwide he has influenced’, in fact,...
In memoriam : Professor Zoltán Dörnyei
ALL members will be saddened to learn of the death of Professor Zoltán Dörnyei whose pioneering work on motivation of language learners holds such a major place in the studies of language teachers, and of trainees....
Critical Connections: Multilingual Digital Storytelling Festival 2022
On Friday 10th June the 2022 Multilingual Digital Storytelling festival took place online on the theme ‘Our Planet’ . It was a great celebration of languages and cultures and of the range of creative and technical skills displayed by young people in making and sharing...
The Guardian: ‘I feel very at home’: the UK schools keeping children in touch with their global roots
Emilia studies Polish culture and food. For Jayden, it’s maths and African history. Photographer Craig Easton captures the weekend schools where youngsters can celebrate their family heritage by Saima Mir Growing up, every Saturday morning while my school friends were...
The Children more willing to learn languages at GCSE and A-level if parents have positive attitudes, research says
Parents’ beliefs about languages had almost twice as much influence on children as the opinions of their teachers, and were also significantly more influential than the views of their peers. The trick to getting more students to learn languages is to win over their...
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