by cristahazell | Jul 1, 2020 | ALL News, Corporate Member, Corporate Member News, Discussion Area, Language News, News, Teacher Briefings, What's New
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...
by cristahazell | Jun 19, 2020 | News, Spanish Zone, What's New
Readers of The Guardian newspaper have shared their favourite holiday memories of Spain; from a day to remember in Santiago de Compostela, midnight fiestas in Granada through to sherry and shrimps in Cádiz and the stunning rocks in Andalucía. Stunning images,...
by cristahazell | Jun 19, 2020 | Corporate Member, German Discussions, German event, German events, German Network, German News, German Zone, News, What's New
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...
by cristahazell | Jun 19, 2020 | Action research, Discussion Area, Events, Language News, News, Primary, Secondary, Secondary News, What's New
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...
by cristahazell | Jun 19, 2020 | Arabic events, Competitions, French events, German events, Italian events, Japanese events, Language News, Mandarin events, News, Portuguese events, Primary, Primary events, Russian events, Secondary, Secondary events, Spanish events, What's New, World languages events
This year’s Routes into Languages East Mother Tongue Other Tongue poetry competition is now open. It is aimed at encouraging school students whose first language wasn’t English to share their Mother Tongue by remembering or creating poetry written in their...
by cristahazell | Jun 15, 2020 | News, What's New
Many wonderful foreign language phrases have permeated the English Language and we use them everyday, but do we know what they mean? Quiz yourself, your loved ones and your learners on some almost everyday phrases and have a bit of fun too thanks to...