By Giuseppe Valiante. Universities want Quebec to make it easier to hire foreign, high-skilled talent.
Quebec universities say they're having trouble recruiting foreign professors due to a French-language requirement they say hinders their ability to attract high-skilled, international talent. More...
By Allan Metcalf. Say the magic word, and it’s yours.By Ben Yagoda. In the slim annals of professorial humor, one of the cherished entries concerns an anthropological linguistics conference where the speaker declaims, “In languages all over the globe, one finds examples of the double negative denoting affirmation, but never the double positive denoting negation.” At which point a guy in the back of the room stands up and says, “Yeah, sure.” More...By William Germano. Why have weather when you could have an event?By Geoffrey Pullum. I was browsing an article about tomato production in the Sacramento Bee (as one does) when my eye lighted upon the phrase ongoing plethora. It struck me as an oddly inept locution. More...
By James Connington. Four months, one drained bank account and more than a few embarrassing incidents later, I’ve returned to the ever so slightly warmer shores of the UK. It was a somewhat surreal transition, as I went from an exam in Germany to lectures in London in the space of 48 hours. Read more...
By Helen Parkinson. It’s expected that language students will return having mastered our chosen language, but in reality this is often not the case. More...
Les formations à l’anglais, en particulier celles préparant au TOEIC, vont rapidement être éligibles au CPF, indique le ministre du Travail, de l’Emploi, de la Formation professionnelle et du Dialogue social, François Rebsamen, lors de ses vœux à la presse, jeudi 29 janvier 2015. Voir l'article...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. You’re probably using the wrong dictionary
James Somers, the jsomers.net blog, 2015/02/04
This is a fascinating item looking at the old Websters 1828 dictionary, and the editions that followed in its line. While today's dictionaries publish terse and matter of fact definitions that strip the nuance from the word, the original dictionary was elegant and detailed, presenting the word in all its flavours. More...
Erasmus+ is the new EU programme for education, training, youth and sport for the period 2014-2020. Erasmus+ offers opportunities to study, train, gain work experience or volunteer abroad and one of its strategic objectives is to strengthen linguistic skills and support language learning.
More information on Erasmus+The Online Linguistic Support (OLS) supports language learning for Erasmus+ mobility participants. The OLS offers participants in Erasmus+ long-term mobility activities (Key Action 1) the opportunity to assess their skills in the foreign language(s) they will use to study, work or volunteer abroad. In addition, selected participants may follow an online language course to improve their competence.
More information on language assessmentsMore information on language coursesThe OLS is available for the following languages: DE German EN English ES Spanish FR French IT Italian NL Dutch.
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