PRESS RELEASE: July 8, 2020 Towards a National Languages Strategy: Education and Skills The Association for Language Learning (ALL) welcomes the proposals put forward in the new report from the British Academy and partners “Towards a National Languages...
These 10 great novels carefully crafted by The Guardian – featuring Murakami and Murata – uncover the mystery of Japan in a way ‘documentarists about families living with robots’ never will. These books speak for a Japan that is often spoken for and about, and...
Theme: Language Trends 2020 Background: The annual Language Trends report was published here in late June: https://www.britishcouncil.org/research-policy-insight/research-reports/language-trends-2020 Key messages: We have extracted here some of the key findings of...
If you teach German, please note that ‘German as a Foreign Language World Wide – The 2020 survey on German as a Foreign Language’ in the world launched earlier this month. Please take a moment to complete the survey and share the following link with colleagues...
Teaching and Learning Languages in Primary Schools: Putting Research into Practice. A new MOOC (free online course). A team of researchers at the Universities of Southampton, Essex and Reading have developed a free online course, open to anyone, to encourage...
Have you always wanted to travel to Tokyo? Or perhaps want to explore this wonderful city more deeply? The Guardian has collated a list of Top 10 books to help you discover ‘quiet stories of domestic life’ through to crime thrillers, not for the faint...
