European Language Gazette - Gazette 28 - November 2015

The European Language Gazette, the ECML's e-newsletter, provides up-to-date news about the ECML (events, projects, resources), the Language Policy Unit and other relevant sectors of the Council of Europe, as well as our partners. It focuses on national developments in the field of language education in the member states and beyond.

Contents

Focus on

• "Languages at the heart of learning" - European Centre for Modern Languages adopts a new programme
• EDL 2015 celebrated in over 47 countries on 5 continents

What's new?

• Babylonia dedicates an issue to pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures
• EFSLI Newsletter: Results of the ECML project "PRO-SIGN-Signed languages for professional purposes"
• EPOSTL: first ECML publication in Persian
• Language Policy Unit: Intergovernmental Conference on "The language dimension in all subjects: equity and quality in education"
• Pestalozzi Programme: developing competences for democracy

What is coming up?

• Take part in testing descriptors for Competences for Democratic Culture
• 47th Meeting and Conference of ALTE "The concept of quality in language education"
• 22nd ICC Annual Conference 2015 "Languages at work 2020"
• XIV CercleS International Conference 2016 "Enhancing learners’ creative and critical thinking: the role of university language centres"

National developments in the field of language education

• Austria: ÖSZ Sprachbox 2/2015
• Denmark: new ECML project publication database in 4 languages
• Switzerland: specific competence profiles for language teachers, report on plurilingual education in history, new ECML national contact point

European Commission

• ET2020 Working Group on transversal skills (8-9 October, Brussels, Belgium)
• Multilingual Europe: Translating in and for multilingual communities (27 October 2015, Graz, Austria)
• Multilingual classrooms
• Languages and employability. More...