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Sign Language – making museums more accessible
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The Magritte Museum in Brussels has become the first museum in Europe to offer visioguides in three sign languages – the sign language of French-speaking Belgium (LSFB), Flemish Sign Language (VGT), and International Sign Language (ISL). The vi...
Rethinking language learning in the UK
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If you missed this month’s webinar Rethink language learning with Teresa Tinsley and John Hernandez, head teacher at Norlington School for Boys, you can listen to the webinar online now. You can view it whenever it is most convenient for &helli...
Language Rich Europe chiude a Bruxelles e lancia il suo messaggio. Le parole chiave della conferenza
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This week’s blog comes from our Language Rich Italy partners Silvia Minardi and Monica Barni. Here they are reflecting back over our final conference: Il progetto Language Rich Europe è un progetto europeo coordinato dal British Council&...
Call for Papers – 2nd International Scientific Conference Sustainable Multilingualism: Research, studies, culture
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The conference, which will be held from 27-28 September 2013 in Kaunas, Lithuania, will assemble international researchers, experts, language teaching professionals, and other stakeholders to share research insights and discuss multilingualism v...
English and Linguistic Imperialism – Time to move on?
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‘Linguistic imperialism: still alive and kicking?’ was the topic of a British Council Signature Event at the recent IATEFL Conference and Exhibition in Liverpool. Robert Phillipson, the author of the 1992 book Linguistic Imperia...
Webinar – Rethink Language learning
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On 2 May, Teresa Tinsley, author of a British Academy report into languages, will be hosting a webinar on behalf of Rosetta Stone, one of Language Rich Europe’s sponsors. The webinar will look at issues such as the importance of … Contin...
Is English particularly good at borrowing words?
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Or rather an export the UK can be really proud of? John Worne, British Council Director Strategy, discusses why English has become such a global adaptable language, mentioning social media as an important factor for its growth. It absolutel...
Call for Multilingualism Good Practice case studies
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Language Rich Europe invites you to submit your European good practice case study for sharing via the official project website. Fill in this submission form. The LRE team will then review and publish your case study on … C...
Would you rank ‘speaking a foreign language’ as an essential intercultural skill?
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This week’s blog post was written by Aneta Quraishy, Senior Project Manager, Language Rich Europe. Here at the British Council weekly internal polls for employees are posted on the intranet and one that caught our attention recently was a quest...
How multilingual is your country/region? Language Rich Europe self-evaluation framework online now!
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How multilingual is your country/region? The LRE framework for language policies and practices in the form of questionnaires is intended as a practical tool for self-evaluation, for awareness-raising and for motivating key stakeholders to t...
International Conference on Endangered Languages in Europe
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The Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation (CIDLeS) invites scholars working on endangered languages in Europe and on Language Documentation to attend the International Conference on Endangered Languages in Europe. The confere...
Have you seen our European Recommendations? Call to action!
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The Language Rich Europe (LRE) consortium called on European institutions and member state governments to initiate new policies to support immigrant language teaching, revise trilingual learning, and use the particular position of English to promote...
Learning languages a way out of crisis, says Vassiliou
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Our Language Rich Europe Closing Conference took place earlier this week in Brussels on 5 March and called to action for European governments to improve language policies to ensure economic competitiveness and build more inclusive societies. Eur...
Let’s talk about multilingualism!
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Join our Brussels conference on 5 March via twitter when Language Rich Europe experts present the recommendations from the project’s research. European politicians will respond to those recommendations, but we’d like your input as well! S...
English as the language of Europe?
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In this guest post, Christiane Keilig from the British Council in Berlin shares her views on why just English isn’t enough. Last Friday the German president, Joachim Gauck, proposed to make English the language of the EU. I was surprised...
Language Rich Europe Closing Conference
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On Tuesday, 5 March 2013, we’ll be holding the Language Rich Europe Closing Conference in Brussels, presenting the project’s results and European recommendations to experts, members of the European Parliament, the European Commission and...
Is English still the dominant language of higher education? – LRE is a panelist in Guardian live chat
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Language Rich Europe is looking forward to being a panelist on tomorrow’s Guardian live chat - Is English still the dominant language of higher education? Join the panel on the Guardian’s website on 15 February from 12-2pm GMT&n...
Language Rich Europe launch – Denmark
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In the latest of our launch events, Language Rich Europe will be launching the results of its research in Denmark on 6 February 2013. The programme is as follows: Welcome: Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen, Director, Danish Language Council Presen...
Language Rich Europe 2012 roundup
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2012 has been a good year for Language Rich Europe as we took to project from behind the research scenes into the public arena. You can follow us via the website, blog and on twitter (with now over a 1000 … Continue reading →...
Key Findings: Languages in Primary Education
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Language Rich Europe research provides a rich source of cross-national insights into multilingualism across the education sectors. You can browse all the national/regional profiles or simply focus on primary education by reading on: ORGANISATION Acco...
