Language Perfect World Championships Mon 16 May – Thu 26 May The Language Perfect World Championships is a worldwide languages competition. The 2016 Championships has now finished, with students worldwide answering an astounding 197,119,101 questions over ten days....
GCSE & A Level qualifications in lesser taught languages to continue Following the reform of GCSE and A level qualifications, the exam boards announced in March 2015 that they would not be continuing to offer GCSE and A level qualifications in a number of smaller,...
This week, the results of the 2015/16 Language Trends survey were published. This important annual research is carried out by the British Council and Education Development Trust, supported by ALL and ISMLA. The Language Trends Survey 2016 – now in its fourteenth...
Two new reports on language teaching in degree programmes (for less-widely taught languages and institution-wide language programmes) have recently been published by the the University Council of Modern Languages (UCML) and the Association of University Language...
Exam boards choose not to redevelop GCSE and A level exams in small-entry languages With the introduction of new GCSE and A level specifications for languages from 2016 (for French, German and Spanish – 2017 for other languages) – some exam boards have announced their...
Celebrating achievement in Japanese! The Japan Webpage Contest for Schools is organised by the Japan Foundation London, Japan’s principal organisation for promoting international cultural exchange, and supported by the Association for Language Learning, the...
