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EU Multilingualism: Policy Meets Practice - Livia Ruszthy (DG Education and Culture, European Commission)

Odesláno 20/03/2012
Livia Ruszthy

This presentation in English was made by Livia Ruszthy (DG Education and Culture, European Commission) on 8 November 2011 at the Making it REAL Launch Conference (CIEP, Sèvres, France).

Multilingualism in Europe: the view of civil society - Uwe Mohr (Goethe Institut, Brussels)

Odesláno 20/03/2012

This presentation in German was made by Uwe Mohr (Goethe Institut, Brussels) on 8 November 2011 at the Making it REAL Launch Conference (CIEP, Sèvres, France).

Promoting linguistic diversity in Europe - Prof. Michael Kelly (University of Southampton, UK)

Odesláno 20/03/2012
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This presentation was made by Prof. Michael Kelly (University of Southampton, UK) on 7 November 2011 at the Making it REAL Launch Conference (CIEP, Sèvres, France).

What role should language teacher associations play in Europe?

Odesláno 20/03/2012
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Renia Klimek Kowalska (ELC President) Camelia Arhip (MATE President) Kristin Brogan (ATLTGI Co-Chair) & Jana Birova (ASPF President) took part in this roundtable on 7 November 2011 at the Making it REAL Launch Conference (CIEP, Sèvres, France). Check out the video to hear the debate.

Taking part in European Projects 2

Odesláno 20/02/2012
European projects

This workshop held in English takes a detailed look at the way language teacher associations can get involved in European projects.

Taking part in European Projects 1

Odesláno 8/12/2011
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Eleonora Salvadori takes a detailed look at the way language teacher associations can get involved in European projects.

Getting Your Voice Heard

Odesláno 8/12/2011
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Konrad Schröder offers some practical tips about how associations can go about representing their interests to the outside world.

Winning Friends and Influencing People

Odesláno 8/12/2011
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Linda Parker and Egle Sleinotiene look at ways in which language teacher associations can work with government organisations.

Getting the media to listen to language teacher associations

Odesláno 8/12/2011
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Annick Lederlé from the Institut Français offers a range of tips and advice to language teacher association to get the most out of their relationship with the media.

Google Docs for language teacher associations

Odesláno 8/12/2011
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As part of the REAL Seminar "Making It REAL" held in Sèvres, France on 7-8 November 2011, members of the REAL Team took a look at how the innovative cloud computing tools provided by Google might facilitate the management of an association.

Diversifying income sources 2

Odesláno 6/12/2011
Diversifying income sources

Wendy Newman, Professional Officer at the Association for Language Learning, UK ran a workshop on the topic of diversifying association’s income sources at the REAL Seminar 'Making It REAL' held at CIEP in November 2011.

Language teacher training

Odesláno 25/08/2011
Language teacher training

In this article, Silvia Minardi gives some ideas on ways that language teacher associations can provide training to their members. She focuses on how she raises teachers’ awareness of multilingualism and plurilingual education.

Quality, a strategic issue in the language field in Europe

Odesláno 25/07/2011
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Quality assurance in language teaching is a key priority across Europe. It is also an essential issue for those seeking to take to apply for European project funding. In this article, Stéphanie Favre looks at the challenges of quality and the different levels at which it can be applied.

Social networking for language teacher associations

Odesláno 9/09/2010
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A presence on the web has become an essential way for associations to communicate to the outside world. But what can you do if you don’t have the technical know-how to set up a cutting edge website or the budget of a multi-national? Educational IT expert, David Maguet, suggests a range of free IT solutions that are easy to set up for non-experts.

Strategies for the political representation of language teachers

Odesláno 9/09/2010
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Representing language teachers to government leaders and decision makers is one of the key roles associations play in a European context of budget cuts and changing political priorities. Read here some of the conclusions from our latest workshop in Iasi.

Diversifying income sources 1

Odesláno 9/09/2010
Diversifier les sources de revenus

Have you ever thought about fundraising through online advertisements? What about selling publications to non-members? Or even organising more learner-focussed events? Discover lots of new ideas about how to tap into new funding streams to sustain your association. 

News

Mandarin teaching in schools to benefit from new UK-China partnership

16/12/2010

British Education Secretary Michael Gove announced a pioneering new partnership with China to train 1000 more Mandarin teachers for secondary schools in England. According to the Department for Education, Mandarin is an increasingly popular subject choice for GCSE, but there are only around 100 qualified Mandarin teachers in England at the moment, and only 16 per cent of secondary schools offered Chinese language teaching in 2009.

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