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Associations

Management

  • Diversifying income sources 2

    Submitted on 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.

  • Quality, a strategic issue in the language field in Europe

    Submitted on 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.

Strategies

  • Getting Your Voice Heard

    Submitted on 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

    Submitted on 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.

Communication

  • Getting the media to listen to language teacher associations

    Submitted on 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

    Submitted on 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.

Training

  • Taking part in European Projects 2

    Submitted on 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

    Submitted on 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.

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Teachers

ICT

Pedagogical

  • Developing reading skills - Silvia Minardi

    Submitted on 9/01/2012

    Silvia Minardi (REAL President) looks at how pupils' reading skills can be developed. The workshop presentation was given at the seminar organised by the European Network of Language Teacher Associations: REAL "REAL-CEFR: The Common European Framework for Languages: from theory to practice, Grenoble (France)" in August 2011.

  • CECR : "Nouvelles" compétences, théorie, pratique et évaluation - Joaquín Díaz-Corralejo Conde

    Submitted on 5/01/2012

    Joaquín Díaz-Corralejo Conde takes a look at how the European Framework of Reference for Languages relates to competences, theory, practice and evaluation. This presentation was given at the seminar "REAL-CEFR: The Common European Framework for Languages: from theory to practice" organised by the European Network of Language Teacher Associations in Grenoble (France) in August 2011. 

     

Didactic

  • Le rôle des médias dans le renouvellement de la pédagogie des langues

    Submitted on 23/12/2011

    Dans le cadre de l'apprentissage / enseignement des langues, les médias représentent avant tout une source inépuisable de documents et de lieux de rencontre de la langue cible. Ils permettent d'accéder à des connaissances autres que linguistiques et de trouver des supports d'apprentissage en lien étroit avec les objectifs ou les intérêts thématiques de chaque groupe d'apprenants. Michel Boiron, directeur du CAVILAM, revient sur cette thématique.

  • Assessment in the European Framework - Silvia Minardi

    Submitted on 19/12/2011

    Silvia Minardi (REAL President) discusses Assessment within the European Framework of Reference for Languages. The presentation was given at the seminar organised by the European Network of Language Teacher Associations: REAL "REAL-CEFR: The Common European Framework for Languages: from theory to practice, Grenoble (France)" on 25 August 2011.

Documents

  • Spanish teaching and learning

    Submitted on 12/05/2011
    Spanish teaching

    These are essential websites to teachers of Spanish as a foreign language (ELE) and websites or blogs made by and for teachers.

  • Key resources for French teaching

    Submitted on 3/01/2011
    FLE

    These are essential websites to teachers of French as a foreign language (FLE) or as a second language (FLS) and websites or blogs made by and for teachers.

References

  • Useful Weblinks to CEFR

    Submitted on 9/09/2010
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    Ten years after the publication of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in 2001, what changes can we observe in language teaching, in teacher training and in the skills' evaluation in Europe? Analyses and points of view.

     

     

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