ICDE and partners in LangOER, a 3-year network project supported by the EU Lifelong Learning Programme, are looking for your input on the role of Open Educational Resources and Open Educational Practices in less used languages.
How can less used languages, including regional and minority languages benefit from Open Educational Practices (OEP)? How can Open Educational Resources (OER) foster linguistic and cultural diversity in Europe? What policies are favourable to the uptake of quality OER in less used language communities? Answers to these questions will be sought through LangOER, a 3-year network project supported by the EU Lifelong Learning Programme. To aid in this, you are asked to contribute by answering five very short questions on your experience of OER and less used languages. More...

The International Language Association (ICC) is holding on 26-27 April its Annual Conference on “Language, learning and the brain” in Mainz, Germany.The event will mainly focus on lessons learned from neurosciences and neurolinguistics for language learning and teaching, while the 2012 Commission’s Communication on “Rethinking Education” has shed a new light on the importance of language learning across the EU. The Conference will also allow for many networking opportunities through various interactive workshops and a marketplace. See the draft programme and register here!

• Language for specific purposes (LSPs)
• Computer assisted language learning
• Audiovisuals and language learning enhancement
• Translation and language learning

Thematic areas

Presentations should reflect on the developments of the fast changing language acquisition environment with specific emphasis on the following thematic areas:

• Language learning and cultural mediation
• E-learning and M-learning
• Video game localisation and language learning
• Subtitling and the role of audiovisual translation in language learning
• Language for specific purposes
• Social networks & language learning
• Copyright issues in language learning
• New trends in foreign language learning
• Training the trainers: working with foreign language instructors
• Quality and innovation in the teaching of Romanian as a foreign language.

Please send your proposal in .doc format by e-mail to language.didactics@gmail.com with the following accompanying information:

• Name of the author(s), affiliation and contact information
• Abstract and title (250-350 words in the language of the presentation)
• Line of research of the presentation (see above main areas of enquiry)

Deadline for submission: 25th February 2014.

More information is available on the official conference website

Cérémonie de remise des labels européens des langues 2013 - Intervention de Mikaël Meunier, Direction générale de la traduction, Représentation en France de la Commission européenne
L'institution que je représente ici aujourd'hui – la Commission européenne – n'est, de toute évidence, pas novice en matière de questions linguistiques, puisqu'elle possède plus d'un demi-siècle d'expérience de multilinguisme officiel. Et de fait, dans l'Union européenne, le multilinguisme n'est pas une question abstraite, mais bien une réalité concrète et quotidienne de la vie publique.
À bien des égards, l'Union européenne est une construction unique, inédite dans l'histoire de l'humanité. Elle a apporté la paix la plus durable qu'ait connue notre continent. Et pas une pax romana, imposée par la force, mais une pax europea, à laquelle les nations adhèrent de leur plein gré. Suite...

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A partir du 17 mars, venez découvrir à la BFM de Limoges une exposition intitulée "Dis-moi dix mots à la folie" proposée par la Délégation générale à la langue française ainsi que des productions écrites, sonores et visuelles réalisées dans le cadre d'un concours organisé par Prisme-Limousin et le Centre régional du livre en Limousin. La remise des prix de ce concours aura lieu le mercredi 19 mars après-midi. Plus d'infos : Catherine Tabaraud, 05 55 10 99 09, catherine.tabaraud@prisme-limousin.fr, www.prisme-limousin.fr.