12. MERIDIUM
11. The European Parliament together with ALTE and University of Cambridge ESOL
Examinations invites you to a series of events on “
Supporting multilingualism through language assessment”. European Parliament,
Brussels. Monday 19 September - Thursday 22 September 2011. Information:
http://www.cambridgeesol.org/multi/
6. Europass Language Passport (ELP-Desk). It has beenrecently completed and has
produced a set of tools and actions for promoting the use of the European Language Platform. For
more information as well as on the interesting tools produced (including also an iphone
application), you can visit the project website
http://www.elp-desk.eu/
.
This is your start page for
accessing the course every time, then:
1. Fill out the New Account form with your details.
2. An email will be immediately sent to your email address.
3. Read your email, and click on the web link it contains.
4. Your account will be confirmed and you will be logged in.
5. Now, select the course "Use of ELP for working and studying abroad"
6. You will be prompted for an "enrolment key" - use the word: elp-desk
7. You can now access the full course. From now on you will only need to enter
your personal username and password to log in and access any course you have enrolled in.
5. Invitation to participate to a seminar organized by a KA2 Languages project .
We have received an invitation from Liisa Wallenius, Project Manager, ELPiPL 2009-2010 to
participate in the ELPiPL Porvoo (FI) seminar on 25 November 2010 online at ConnectPro
. ELPiPL (European Language Portfolio on Student’s Journey through Studies into
Professional Life) is a languages project in the Lifelong Learning programme with an objective to
develop the use of the European Language Portfolio (ELP) in cooperation with secondary and tertiary
level educational institutions, language teachers, language learners, enterprises and Europass
Centres.
The calendar of the project’s activities (2009-2011) is here:
http://www.elpipl.com/timetable .
4. Webinar. Public debate broadcast live "
Language resources and web 2.0: the latest hype or methodological approaches?",
organised in the context of the LLP funded project Language Learning and Social Media: 6 Key
Dialogues, 1st October 2010.
Video sequences:
· 00:00-03:30: introduction to the LS6
network and the role of webinars as focal points of our activities (by Katerina Zourou)
· 03:31-07:12: the webinar resulting
from the publication “language learning: resources and networks” (by Linda Rath-Wiggins)
· 07:13-end: panelists interviewed by
the moderator and the participants face-to-face and online
3. REAL Project (European Network of Language Teacher Associations) launched its
brand new website on 26 September 2010, the European Day of Languages.
The REAL website aims to provide information about the most important language events across
the continent. The News about languages section monitors the vast range of European events
(conferences, training courses, publications) being held, News about associations focuses on events
and activities being carried out by language teacher associations belonging to the REAL Network.
News about REAL provides the latest on the activities of the Network itself. The calendar,
newsletter and the RSS feeds allow you to keep a track of what’s happening in languages across
Europe. The REAL website also provides a range of online resources aimed at teachers and
association leaders.
http://www.real-association.eu
1.
LETPP Languages in Europe (Theory, Policy & Practice), January 2010. This one
year project has been initiated in order to identify the conditions which allow good ideas on
multilingualism to develop into coherent policy and practice, and also the obstacles to that
happening. By policy we mean European, national and regional strategies which promote or
inhibit linguistic diversity in social and economic life, and also specific measures which may
support that diversity, such as the Lifelong Learning Programme.
http://www.letpp.eu/.
(Multilingualism in Europe as a Resource for Immigration)