This section contains the latest news about languages in Europe: dates of events related to languages, reviews about research in linguistics and in teaching foreign and native languages, European positions, etc.
The eighth International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism will be held at the University Jaume I Castello in Spain from 13 to 15 September 2012.
English studied as a foreign language by 95% of pupils at upper secondary level in the EU27 in 2009 . Greater diversity in second most common foreign language studied
Learning through Sharing: Open Resources, Open Practices, Open Communication
The conference will be held at the University of Bologne, Italy on March 29 - 30. This two-day conference focuses on the impact of adopting openness as a key principle in education. It explores how open resources, open practices and open communication can be integrated in language teaching and learning, and in the initial and continuing development of language teachers.
The V-Lang Project 2011 Conference on “'Future Language Learning Now: Innovative Applications and Methods for Language Training” will be held November 17 in Warsaw, Poland.
The final seminar of ''the project YELL'' will take place on 27th of October 2011. It will be held in Bologne, Italy and will sum up activities that have taken place over three years of the YELL ''Young Europeans Love Languages'' project.
WORKSHOP: language in Higher Education. Challenges for Medium-Sized Language Communities. To be held at the University of Barcelona (Spain, 28 October 2011)
The European Commission published a report about Civil Society and Multilingualism. It gives policy recommendations for the promotion of multilingualism in the European Union.
This report presents the outcomes of the OMC group “Languages for jobs” that the Commission has set up under the Education and Training 2020 framework. This is an independent report. The views expressed herein are those of the independent experts which do not necessarily reflect the official position of the European Commission.
