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Wales, Europe & the World
On Tuesday, 9 February 2010 Cardiff City Hall was taken over by
450 of South Wales’ young linguists. Wales, Europe & the
World was the event that attracted the 14-19 year olds to the city
centre to learn all about opportunities available to young language
learners in Wales across Europe and the wider world.
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New Training Opportunities for Primary Teachers in Wales
Language teachers in primary schools across Wales will soon be
benefitting from enhanced opportunities to boost their linguistic
knowledge and confidence, and to improve their foreign language-teaching
skills, thanks to the partnership between the British Council and
the National Centre for Languages in Wales (CILT Cymru).
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Focusing on Community Languages in Wales
As part of its new MFL strategy ‘Making Languages Count’,
the Welsh Assembly Government has asked CILT Cymru to conduct a
survey amongst secondary schools and colleges to establish existing
provision and perceived needs in the delivery and provision of community
languages.
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CILT is on the look-out for the UK’s most innovative
projects
With applications now open for next year’s prestigious European
Award for Languages, the search is on for the UK’s most innovative
language learning projects. Schools, colleges, adult education and
community projects are being encouraged to apply ahead of the deadline
on 31st January 2010: www.cilt.org.uk/eal
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Routes into Languages Cymru
Wales has now officially joined the Routes into Languages project,
the main aim of which is to attract more young people into studying
MFL at university level, whether as a specialist degree subject
or as a subsidiary subject. The Higher Education Funding Council
for Wales is investing £750,000 over 3 years in this exciting
project, bringing Wales into line with England, where 9 regional
consortia are now entering their third year of project activity.
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The future for Primary MFL in Wales….
With the official end of the CILT Cymru/Welsh Assembly Government
KS2 Pilot Project (2003-2009) in the summer term of 2009, our attention
is now focused on the future of primary modern languages in Wales.
The next steps are to share the good practice that exists in Wales
and to extend the opportunities for MFL in primary schools.
To this end, the Welsh Assembly Government has set out a proposal
in the revised ‘Making Languages Count’ document to
create an ‘Innovator Schools’ Network’ from Jan
2010 where clusters would act as centres of excellence for their
locality, with each LEA, in theory, having their own centre of excellence….
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