The future of language education in the light of Covid
Lessons learned and ways forward

The colloquium set out to address the following questions:

• What insights had been gained from using radically different modes of language education during the Covid pandemic – remote, hybrid, socially distanced- during the Covid pandemic?

• How can the challenges of examinations and assessment in such situations be overcome?

• What innovative kinds of support for learners and teachers were developed?

• What specific challenges arose in relation to ensuring inclusive language education for all?

• Do we now need a new kind of “educational literacy”?

The colloquium looked back in order to move forward: reporting on the results of the February 2021 survey, which attracted over 1750 responses, and on the activities which followed it. Drawing also on related ECML-EC Training and consultancy activities in the areas of assessment and multilingual classrooms, and on responses to Covid developed by the European Commission and by the OECD, it also considered how this wealth of experience and knowledge might impact on future ECML programmes and act as a springboard for shaping a promising future for language education in Europe at the levels of policy, teacher education and classroom practice.  

The colloquium particularly focused  on all those working in the field of language education: decision-makers, curriculum developers, teacher educators and classroom teachers.  

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