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16 août 2013

Conference "Motivation in language education"

http://ec.europa.eu/languages/images/content/promo_banners/button_quizz_en.pngOn 24th September 2013, the international conference on “Motivation in language education” will be held at the University of Warsaw.
It is organized by the Polish LLP NA Foundation for the Development of the Education System, Representation of the European Commission, EUNIC, Ministry of National Education, University of Warsaw in cooperation with European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) as a part of a series of events organized in Warsaw in order to celebrate the European Day of Languages.
The conference is addressed to experts responsible for shaping language policy, neurolinguists, representatives of education institutions, researchers, teachers, social partners. The conference will provide them with the possibility to discuss the following issues:

  • Foreign language didactics in the field of brain studies
  • Competence motivation in foreign language teaching
  • Motivation to foreign language learning of new learner groups
  • Motivation to learning less widely used languages
  • Development of new methods and tools facilitating foreign language learning and teaching
  • Motivation to foreign language learning and teaching through participation in European education programmes – examples of best practice.

Taking part in the conference is free of charge. The languages of the conference are: English and Polish.
More information at:

16 août 2013

EUROCALL 2013

http://www.elearningeuropa.info/sites/default/files/elearning_papers.pngIn September 2013, EUROCALL will celebrate its 20th anniversary. Come and join us in Évora and help us celebrate this great occasion! The conference will take place on the Main Building of the University, Colégio do Espírito Santo, and will be hosted by the School of Social Sciences.
This year, the programme will include individual papers, Special Interest Groups (SIG) symposia, workshops, presentations show-casing EU-funded projects, and posters. We are seeking proposals on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
Recent developments in mobile learning
Language learning in virtual environments
Synchronous communication in language learning
European Language Portfolio, self-assessment and ICT
Challenges of e-learning: the role of the institution
E-learning: student expectations and experience
Successes of e-learning through the eyes of the student
The use of new technologies for language teaching in schools
Promoting the use of new technologies amongst language teaching professionals
Developments in the pedagogy of online learning
Developments in Natural Language Processing and ICALL
Corpora and language learning
Courseware design
Cross-sector collaboration through e-learning
Supporting less widely taught languages through CALL
Improving intercultural competence through language learning
Managing multimedia environments
Distance and collaborative learning
Self-access and learner autonomy.
Proposals for Papers, Symposia, European Projects, Workshops and Posters must be submitted online via the web-based submission process at http://www.eurocall-languages.org/conf2013/.

15 août 2013

YELL - Young European Love Languages

http://www.elearningeuropa.info/sites/default/files/elearning_papers.pngYoung Europeans Love Languages (YELL) is a network of European partners committed to promote language learning as a key skill of lifelong learning. The project (2009-2011) identified a number of tools to raise awareness and to demonstrate the importance of language learning and produced the YELL Handbook, targeted at multipliers in non-formal and formal education, providers of cultural, social and sport activities for young people.
The Handbook provides insight on how to implement best practices on raising awareness about cultural diversity and motivation of young people to learn foreign languages. The tools are designed for all education and vocational qualification institutions and for the trainers.
The project also produced the Virtual Documentation Center, an on-line database of examples of good practise in the field of innovative and creative ways of language learning in non-formal and informal contexts.
The YELL 2 project was launched in April 2013 to to disseminate the results of the network and to raise awareness of the Virtual Documentation Centre. The consortium of partners from Germany, UK and Turkey, aims to extend the user base of their online database and to enhance the tool by gathering additional Best Practice resources from around Europe.
Website: http://www.yell-project.eu/.

15 août 2013

The ICT for Language Learning conference extends the abstract submission deadline

http://www.elearningeuropa.info/sites/default/files/elearning_papers.pngThe 6th edition of the ICT for Language Learning international conference, to be held in Florence (Italy) on 14-15 November, aims to promote and share good practice and transnational cooperation in the field of the application of Information and Communications Technology to language learning and training.
Due to the high interest in the conference, the organisation has announced that the abstract submission deadline has been extended to 5 September, 2013.  The Call for Papers is addressed to language teachers and experts as well as to coordinators of language projects and initiatives.
There will be three presentation modalities: Oral and poster presentations (in-person) and virtual (for those who can not attend in person). All the papers presented during the conference will be published on an ISBN publication. Read more...

15 août 2013

Language learning: resources and networks

http://www.elearningeuropa.info/sites/default/files/elearning_theme_logo.jpgAuthors: Lidwien van Dixhoorn, Francois Mangenot, Katerina Zourou.
A study produced by the European network "Language Learning and Social Media: 6 key dialogues" regarding the potential of social media networks and resources for language learning.
Available in English and French.

15 août 2013

L’anglais hors la loi ? Enquête sur les langues de recherche et d’enseignement en France

http://www.ined.fr/fichier/t_publication/1645/publi_picto_picto_pop.soc_501.jpgPar François Héran. Population et Sociétés N°501, juin 2013, 1,50 €. n° ISSN 0184 77 8.  L'anglais a-t-il droit de cité dans les salles de cours de nos universités ? Uniquement pour les étrangers, dit la loi de 1994, ou si le cours présente un « caractère international ». Or la science est internationale par définition, non par dérogation. La loi peut-elle empêcher la recherche et l'enseignement de manier les langues internationales de la science, à commencer par l'anglais ? Une enquête de l'Ined resitue le débat en dressant un bilan de l'usage des langues par discipline et par génération. 
Une enquête auprès des chercheurs et enseignants chercheurs du secteur public atteste le quasi-monopole de l'anglais comme langue internationale d'échange dans les sciences dures et son ancrage dans les sciences humaines et sociales. Il en va de même des publications, des rencontres tenues en France ou des sites Internet. Un quart des chercheurs ou enseignants chercheurs ont donné des cours en anglais dans l'année. La loi de 1994 protège les consommateurs et les salariés ; elle n'a pas entravé l'essor international d'une science toujours plus anglophone.
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15 août 2013

Recherche publique : quelle est la place de l’anglais ?

http://www.vie-publique.fr/images/logo_viepublic.pngL’Institut national d’études démographiques (Ined) publie les résultats de l’enquête Elvire (enquête sur l’usage des langues vivantes dans la recherche publique française) menée entre 2007 et 2009. L’enquête permet de dresser un bilan de l’application de la loi relative à l’emploi de la langue française du 4 août 1994, dite "loi Toubon", dans le secteur de la recherche.
Il apparaît que l’anglais occupe une position dominante dans tous les domaines de la recherche. Dans les sciences exactes, l’utilisation du français est devenue marginale : 96% des directeurs de laboratoire assurent que l’anglais est la langue la plus utilisée. Cette proportion est moins forte dans les sciences humaines et sociales : l’anglais y est déclaré dominant par 59% des directeurs de laboratoire. De la même façon, les publications, les réunions ou les colloques scientifiques se font essentiellement en anglais. L’enquête montre aussi que 25% des enseignants dispensent, régulièrement ou à l’occasion, des cours en anglais dans l’enseignement supérieur. Cette pratique est plus forte chez les chargés de recherche et les directeurs de recherche qui enseignent à l’université. Malgré la loi Toubon, l’anglais a donc continué à progresser dans les activités scientifiques.
Les résultats de l’enquête sont publiés alors que le projet de loi déposé au Parlement à l’initiative du gouvernement. relatif à l’enseignement supérieur et à la recherche, discuté au Parlement. à partir du 22 mai 2013, suscite un nouveau débat sur l’emploi du français dans l’enseignement supérieur. Le projet de loi prévoit, en effet, de nouvelles dérogations au monopole des cours en français.
Sur la toile publique

29 juillet 2013

Exploration of Open Educational Resources in Non-English Speaking Communities

http://www.elearningeuropa.info/sites/default/files/imagecache/content_detail_picture/asset/cristobal_cobo-380x380_0.jpgBy Dr. Juan Cristobal Cobo Romaní. Over the last decade, open educational resources (OER) initiatives have created new possibilities for knowledge-sharing practices. This research examines how, where, and when OER are attracting attention in the higher education sector and explores to what extent the OER discussion has moved beyond the English-speaking world. This study analysed English, Spanish, and Portuguese OER queries over a long-term period (2007-2011). The data retrieval was conducted using four online platforms: two academic journal databases (Web of Knowledge and Scopus), one video-sharing Web site (YouTube), and one document-sharing Web site (Scribd). The number (more than 32,860) of search results collected indicate an increasing interest in online OER discussion across languages, particularly outside academic journal databases. Additionally, a widening “language gap” between OER discussions in English and other languages was identified in several platforms. This research reports some of the cultural and language challenges caused by the expansion of the OER discussion and highlights relevant findings in this field. Read more...
28 juillet 2013

Hard to Understand

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/provost.jpg?itok=zHImrB0hBy Herman Berliner. My younger daughter was fine in England. We loved being there. The accent was strange to her but people were talking English and she had no trouble communicating. Communicating was not a problem for me either and I was also smart enough not to drive a car and adjust to driving on the "wrong" side of the street. We next took a side trip to Disneyland Paris. English was in frequent use and almost everyone understood and was willing to talk in English. Some of the rides and shows were primarily French but there was always an English version, even if it was abridged. Once again my younger daughter had no trouble understanding or being understood, especially since many of the rides were simply irresistible and required very limited communication skills. Read more...

28 juillet 2013

Pro-English or Anti-Immigrant?

HomeBy Scott Jaschik. A student's lawsuit against Pima Community College started going viral last week on conservative blogs and websites, featuring headlines like "War on English Language" and "Student Booted from U.S. College for Favoring English!" The college has denied the charges -- and some observers see the suit as an attack in the education of Latino students, a key constituency for Pima, which is located in Arizona. Read more...
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