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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...
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...
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...
ECML webinars in May and June 2022
Take part in a series of ECML webinars in May and June As part of its mission to promote excellence in language education, the ECML is pleased to invite you to participate in a series of webinars in May and June 2022. For more detailed information on content and...
German Teacher Award 2022 is open for nominations!
The German Teacher Award has opened again for nominations for 2022! If you know a truly outstanding German language teacher at your primary or secondary school – make sure that their dedication and excellence get the recognition they deserve! The Embassy of the...
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