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25 janvier 2018

UBS. Étudiants étrangers : des cours intensifs de français cet été

Le centre de langues de l'UBS organise un programme intensif de français, en petits groupes, pour les étudiants étrangers afin de favoriser les apprentissages et la pratique de la langue. Ce programme se déroule jusqu'au 25 août, à Lorient. À la carte, les stagiaires peuvent choisir leur formule de stage : deux, quatre, six ou huit semaines. Plus...

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25 janvier 2018

Another university drops its English proficiency rule

National Chengchi University recently abolished a rule requiring students to pass standardised English proficiency tests, becoming the latest university to drop the graduation requirement following National Cheng Kung University and National Taipei University of Education, writes Ann Maxon for the Taipei Times. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Universities struggle to cater for Maori demand

Auckland universities are facing a te reo Maori teacher shortage as free language classes soar in popularity. While there are a lot of proficient Maori speakers, finding the right people to teach it was proving to be a struggle, writes Adam Jacobson for Stuff. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Court ruling misses the mark on language rights

By Rosemary Salomone. The South African Constitutional Court’s recent decision upholding the University of the Free State’s move toward English courses, though intended to ease racial tensions and promote integration, is long on memory but short on constitutional vision for language rights across the education spectrum. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Students as victims of a national language malaise

By Laeed Zaghlami. An article published in The Economist earlier this year seems to suggest so. It quotes publisher Selma Hellal saying that young people in Algeria were “victims of language policies which have undermined our ability to express ourselves”. More...

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25 janvier 2018

The languages strategy is an important first step

By Hanne Leth Andersen. Denmark now has a national languages strategy. This strategy did not make a lot of fuss about itself, probably because not all politicians agree on its importance. After all, the willingness to take action for foreign languages other than English is not the primary focus for everyone. More...

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23 janvier 2018

English test requirement for university sparks debate

By Suvendrini Kakuchi. New government plans for reform of the country’s university admissions examination system requiring students to pass a new standardised English test in 2020 have sparked strong but mixed reactions among higher education institutions, including over the use of privately run tests. More...

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23 janvier 2018

Students protest over outsourcing of English tests

Students of National Chengchi University and other universities have been protesting against universities in Taiwan setting English proficiency requirements as a threshold for graduation based on outside tests, prompting the country’s legislature to ask the Ministry of Education to come up with a comprehensive strategy to address the issue, writes George Liao for Taiwan News. More...

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22 janvier 2018

Une matrice qualité pour l’utilisation du CECR - Progrès du projet en 2017

Le point culminant du travail de l’année a été la réunion de réseau qui a eu lieu en mai: un moment de bon travail collaboratif dans une atmosphère positive et constructive. Depuis, nous avons finalisé les principes AQ (assurance qualité) et les indicateurs. L’autre point clé a été la conceptualisation de l’outil et des ressources annexes, avec une différenciation entre catégories d’usagers avec des filtres ciblés. Plus...

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22 janvier 2018

Action research communities for language teachers (ARC) - Report 2017

Action research projects started during the ARC workshop in November 2016. During the year colleagues across the ECML member states collaborated on their projects and there were intensive contacts in spring and summer. The visible result was the publication of the project abstracts on our website. Publication on the Padlet Wall continued and longer versions of the project descriptions are available there for Network partners. Plus...

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