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An Intergovernmental Conference on "The language dimension in all subjects: equity and quality in education", organised by the Language Policy Unit of the Council of Europe, took place in Strasbourg on 14-15 October 2015. The ECML contributed to this major event which focused on the teaching and learning of the language(s) for schooling. Significant work carried out by the ECML in this area was highlighted in the presentation of the Centre. All presentations of this event can be accessed through the programme. More...

The 2015 European Day of Languages offered a showcase for a wide variety of creative initiatives around the globe: A huge number of events celebrating languages and language diversity took place on or around 26 September. Depending on your interests (and transport!) it was possible to attend a series of workshops in Belgrade, a language fair in Strumica ("the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"), express language courses on trains between Clermont-Ferrand and Vichy, a sign language event in Belfast, a language festival to promote the multiple home languages of the children in Luxembourg, literary flashmobs in 13 cities of South America or to try out "surviving shopping in a foreign language" in Sofia or "speak dating" in Hong Kong. Migration this year was a frequent theme with many activities focusing on integration and the teaching methods required to rapidly develop basic communicative skills for new arrivals in the language of the host country. More...

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...

Translated into Persian by Mr Majid Elahi Shirvan, Assistant Professor, University of Bojnord, Iran.
Building on insights from the Common European Framework of Reference and the European Language Por tfolio as well as the European Commission-financed project European Profile for Language Teacher Education – A Frame of Reference (Profile), EPOSTL seeks to help prepare students for their future profession in a variety of teaching contexts. The EPOSTL can also facilitate discussion of aims and curricula between teacher educators working within different national or European contexts.
The EPOSTL can now be downloaded from the ECML website in 15 language versions.

Connected links:

EPOSTL in Persian: 

برنامه اروپایی برای دانشجویان آموزش زبان های خارجی (EPOSTL publication). More...

The latest newsletter edited by the European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters dedicates an article to the Signed Languages for Professional Purposes project of the ECML.
Publications of the project will be available by the end of 2015 at http://www.ecml.at/pro-sign. The following outputs will be published in the project’s two working languages (International Sign and English). More...

We would like to offer you an opportunity to participate in the validation of a new set of CEFR Illustrative Descriptors for mediation by completing an online questionnaire. The online questionnaire asks you to consider descriptors by thinking about a person you know very well (this could be yourself or someone else), and how they perform in a second/foreign language. This is a project of the Language Policy Unit of the Council of Europe.
If you would like to participate please go to the following link to see the contents of each survey. Once you have decided which scales are of interest, select the survey link and complete the questionnaire. Please note that you cannot save your responses and come back to the survey – it must be completed in one sitting. More...

Babylonia dedicates its latest issue to pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures - in other words, to teaching orientations that prepare learners for multilingualism and interculturalism while strengthening their motivation to learn.
The contribution focuses on several projects within the current ECML programme (FREPA, MALEDIVE, PARENTS), in particular highlighting the importance of the Framework for pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures (FREPA) in the context of the ECML.
FREPA has contributed to the recognition of pluralistic approaches. It has also sparked new experiments and projects all over Europe. This process is described in arrange of different contexts in this issue. More...

At its 24th meeting on 23 October the Governing Board of the European Centre for Modern Languages unanimously adopted the Centre’s 2016-19 programme entitled “Languages at the heart of learning” and acknowledged the importance of this new programme in addressing major challenges in language education in member states.
The programme is structured around three key work strands: Development, Training and Consultancy, and Mediation which together form a cohesive, yet dynamic whole. The development strand encompasses both projects and think tanks.   Whilst this strand constitutes the predetermined element of content development within the programme, a large degree of flexibility is offered through the Training and Consultancy and Mediation strands, whose exact composition which will be determined by member states on an annual basis. More...

Jeudi 19 novembre 2015
De 14h à 17h, à l'Arcade à Aix-en-Provence

Le ministère de la Culture et de la Communication et le ministère de la Ville, de la Jeunesse et des Sports ont lancé en 2015 un programme de Service civique baptisé « Citoyens de la culture » qui permettra de réaliser 16 000 missions d'ici la fin de l'année 2016 dont 6 000 dès cette année.
Celui-ci est axé autour de deux thématiques :
- Favoriser l’accès de tous à la culture en portant l’offre culturelle au plus près des populations notamment les plus éloignées de celle-ci (personnes en situation de handicap, personnes âgées, jeunes en difficultés…)
- Mettre la culture au service des valeurs républicaines, pour conforter le sens et l’attachement républicain.
Le Service civique propose aux jeunes de 16 à 25 ans un nouveau cadre d’engagement, dans lequel ils pourront gagner en confiance en eux, en compétences, et prendre le temps de réfléchir à leur propre avenir, tant citoyen que professionnel.
Loin du stage centré sur l’acquisition de compétences professionnelles, le Service civique est donc avant tout une étape de vie d’éducation citoyenne par l’action, et se doit d’être accessible à tous les jeunes, quelles qu’aient été leur formation ou leurs difficultés antérieures.
L’objectif de ce Zoom est de présenter le cadre du dispositif « Citoyens de la culture » ; ses bénéficiaires ; les missions proposées dans le cadre d’un Service civique dans le secteur culturel ; ainsi que les différentes modalités de recrutement. Voir l'article...

La délégation Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur d`OPCALIA lance un appel d'offre relatif à son offre de formations pour l'année 2016.

Cette consultation concerne 71 intitulés de formation compris dans 12 grandes thématiques.
La date limite de réception des offres est fixée au 2 décembre 2015.
Des informations détaillées sur les modalités de réponse à cet avis sont disponibles sur la page dédiée du site Internet d`OPCALIA.

Rendez-vous sur la page dédiée au repérage des appels d`offres "Formation, Insertion" en région PACA, consultables gratuitement et en libre accès.