Botswana has been using only Setswana and English, as mediums of instruction in its schools for many years is now introducing 11 (new) local languages in schools, to be used as medium of instruction. According to Fidelis Molao, Botswana´s Minister ...
The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages is a Council of Europe convention designed to protect and promote states parties’ traditional minority languages and enable speakers of these languages to use them in both private and public life. This ...
The World Bank’s focus on foundational skills requires that issues of language and Language of Instruction be brought to the forefront of education policy discussions. Poor Language of Instruction policies harm learning, access, equity, cost-effectiveness, and inclusion. Yet, nearly 37% ...
The meetings and lectures which are a feature of the online weekly seminar series ‘Language policy and practices in the Global North and South’ has attracted prominent speakers from around the world and many enthusiastic followers. Find out more here ...
EU open public consultation in the 23 official EU languages Open until 30 September 2021 The objective of the consultation is to seek counsel from education researchers and educators to be used as input in the Commission's proposal for a ...
Don’t miss out on this important opportunity! Only a few days are left for you to participate in the large-scale, EU-wide consultation process through the online questionnaire, addressed to Language Technology users and consumers: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/LTusers-consumers The questionnaire takes approx. 20 ...
Our member organisation, the Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, hosted by the Fryske Akademy, informs us about ENROPE (European Network for Junior Researchers in the Field of Plurilingualism and Education) – an international, cooperative project aiming ...
Announcing the Sixth International Saarbrücken Conference on Foreign Language Teaching on 27-29/10/2021 Communication across Borders - Teaching, Learning and Speaking the Languages Kommunikation ohne Grenzen - die Sprachen der Welt lehren, lernen und sprechen Communication sans frontières - enseigner, apprendre ...
Announcing the International digital Symposium on Safeguarding the Future of Multilingual Assessment in the Covid World, organised by one of ECSPM‘s members: the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE), 28-30 April 2021. Deadline for registration is 14 April, please ...
Multilingualism in Higher Education in Europe. The event will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the Centre for Multilingualism of the University of Konstanz, Germany, 28-29 June 2021. For more information, please visit the Symposium page where you will ...
