In September 2010, the Association for Language Learning (ALL) asked language teachers across the UK about the issues affecting them. ALL has now produced a final report on the findings of this consultation.
Bernadette Grandcolas, editor of Les Langues Modernes from 1979 to 1985, the journal of the "Association des professeurs de langues vivantes" (Association of Teachers of Modern Languages) published since 1903, has catalogued the table of contents of all issues published up until 1968. These tables of contents as well as more recent ones are available on the APLV-Langues Modernes website.
ELC joined REAL as a project partner in April this year. The association has overall responsibility for overseeing the pedagogical content of REAL seminars. In August 2010 members of the association organised a seminar on the topic of ‘Innovation and Creativity in the language classroom' along with other members of the REAL consortium.
MATE, the Moldavian Association of Teachers of English from Romania has had another busy, challenging, yet fulfilling year. Despite the difficulties faced by everyone worldwide, our team has pulled out all the stops in order to achieve all the goals we had fixed for this year.
The European Language Olympics 2010 organised by ALL and Language Perfect is starting on 26 September and will last until 14 Oct 2010. It is a two weeks long competition aimed at motivating students learning languages. Learn. Compete. Win. Let the Games begin!
The conference 'Towards a Better Language Education' was held on 29-30 June 2010 in Vilnius and organised by The Association of Language Teachers of Lithuania and its founders and partners the Public Service Language Centre, Kaunas Technological University, Vytautas Magnus University, Vilnius College, Klaipeda University and Marijampole College.
On 9 October 2010 ALL, the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur (Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture) are holding an Austrian Day in London.
Since January 2010, the FaDaF is the partner of the project 'IDIAL for Professionals: interkulturell - regionalisiert - qualifizierend - professionell' (Regionalised teaching materials and intercultural dialogue), a project supported by the European Commission and under the direction of the intercultural Germanistic department of Göttingen. The role of the FaDaF is to assure the quality control and the dissemination of the results of the project.
