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Last week’s announcements on the draft National Curriculum for England, Michael Gove’s U-turn on the EBacc Certificates and the news of further consultation on performance measures at Key Stage 4 (the EBacc) have been received by officers and members of...

The BBC languages website (bbc.co.uk/languages) is no longer being maintained, as a notice on the site indicates. ALL contacted the BBC's Controller of Learning, Saul Nasse, who stated that the BBC is creating a new online area to contain its educational content, and...

In their recent report, Languages: The State of the Nation, the British Academy has warned of a "vicious circle of monolingualism" despite rising global demand for language skills: as too few UK students are studying too narrow a range of courses at...

The European Language Label is an award for innovative language-learning projects open to all languages. It is funded by the EU Commission and has been running for over 10 years with great success in all EU member states. In the UK, the Label is managed by CfBT...

Bad weather did not stop play at the ALL London January Event @ SOAS, 19 Jan 2013 “At this event I was looking for help with running a Swahili workshop in Tanzania and materials on water use in various languages – and I found both,” a delegate said....

Originally funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, the Home Language Accreditation Project (HoLA) in Sheffield aims to assist bilingual children gain qualifications in their home language. The project hopes to develop relationships between community language schools and...

Translation Nation is a project of the Eastside Educational Trust, an award winning arts education charity, which offers creative learning projects for children and young people. The Trust works in schools across the South-East of England, and is dedicated to...

Newly elected member of the ALL Executive Council, Teresa Tinsley, sums up for members the latest edition of the CBI’s Education and Skills Survey, Building for Growth, which underlines the need for better foreign language skills in the workforce.   Please...

"The difficulties in persuading pupils to study foreign languages at Higher has been underlined by a report that compares languages and social subjects uptake."   "The difficulties in persuading pupils to study foreign languages at Higher has been...

FLAME is a new initiative set up by ALL (Association for Language Learning) in order to support CLIL and bilingual learning. FLAME, Future for Language as a Medium of Education, will aim to support teachers in their various endeavours to combine subject topics with...

JOHN TRIM Former Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge Fellow of the Association for Language Learning It is with the deepest sorrow that we announce the death of John Trim, who died peacefully on the 19 January 2013 in Suffolk. John had been incurably ill for some time...

A map showing the languages spoken all across Britain It has been revealed that Polish is the second most-spoken language in England and Wales, followed by Punjabi and Urdu. To find out what languages are most-spoken in your area, check out this interesting map...

With reforms expected at every turn, teachers and education professionals from around the UK speculate on what 2013 will bring for education. Read the article in the Guardian.

The Department for Education has announced a further (additional) consultation on languages at Key Stage 2. On 6 July 2012 the Rt. Hon. Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Education, launched a public consultation on the Government’s proposal to make...

According to the latest figures, published Tuesday 21st November 2012, more than 70% of new trainee teachers have obtained a ‘high-quality’ degree, which is the highest recorded statistic to date. The Teaching Agency published data reveals that 71% of...