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Japanese Synchronous Online Course
Target group: 6th Formers Duration: 10 weeks Date: Sat 19th of Oct 2019 - Sat 21st Dec 2019 Starting in October, the course will consist of 2 face-to-face sessions and 8 online "live" lessons. As part of the course, learners will explore the Japanese language through...
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Celebrating the European Day of Languages
“Jambo!” “Hola!” “Привет!” Walking through the corridors of our 11-16 all-inclusive school in Somerset, you could hear the sounds of dozens of languages, with excited primary students hanging on every word of the secondary student who was teaching them. As the bell...
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Host a Teacher from Germany: free CPD opportunity
There are just over two weeks left to register to host a teacher from Germany for 1, 2 or 3 weeks in spring/summer 2020. What are the benefits? 1. Choose your own timings - it's flexible and fully funded! 2. Enhance the intercultural dimension in your school community...
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Culture in a box resource
Get started on eTwinning before 15 September to receive a free 'Culture in a Box' to your school! Why sign up? With more than 670,000 teachers from all over Europe collaborating on the eTwinning platform, it's a good time to introduce the world to your classroom....
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Teachers Learning to Teach languages
What is TELT? TEachers Learning to Teach languages (TELT) aims to increase and improve language provision in primary schools. Teachers simultaneously learn a new language and the skills to teach that language in the classroom. TELT seeks to: Make language training...
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ALL NE European Day of Languages Competition
A magical trip ALLNE and partners are once again organising the annual European Day of Languages Competition for Schools and in 2019 it is again open to anyone! We were delighted with response from around the country in last year’s competition - A recipe (for...
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ALL comments on GCSE results
ALL President Jane Harvey comments on this year’s results: “I really want to congratulate all the students and their hard working language teachers across Wales, Northern Ireland and England who are collecting their GCSE results today. It is pleasing to see that...
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ALL Literature Project
The ALL literature project wiki aims to support language learning through literary texts. Recent posts include songs (spring 2019) and culture (summer 2019). For autumn 2019, we have added Grammar emerging from authentic texts. Here, you can find ideas for...
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THE LANGUAGE MAGICIAN for Secondary
Secondary colleagues will have heard previously of the award-winning Erasmus+ project THE LANGUAGE MAGICIAN through ALLNet, but may not know of its usefulness in the Secondary phase. It is a game designed for Primary-age language learners which also produces data for...
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Pop-Up World of Languages – the first UK pop-up museum of languages!
Discover the weird and wonderful world of languages! The UK has a museum for dog collars and lawn mowers, but not for languages. This autumn we are launching our innovative Pop-Up World of Languages to fill this gap. Join us on a journey through our three zones to...
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ALL comments on A-level results 2019
ALL President Jane Harvey comments on this year’s results: “Congratulations to all A-level language students and their teachers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on their results today. Language learning enables students to understand other cultures and is a life...
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Resource Developers Needed
The NCELP (National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy) are seeking one or more part time 'Resource Developer(s)' to create research-informed teaching materials for secondary school learners of German and French (and ideally also Spanish). This post could...
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