Contents:

Focus on

• "Languages at the heart of learning" - European Centre for Modern Languages adopts a new programme
• EDL 2015 celebrated in over 47 countries on 5 continents

What's new?

• Babylonia dedicates an issue to pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures
• EFSLI Newsletter: Results of the ECML project "PRO-SIGN-Signed languages for professional purposes"
• EPOSTL: first ECML publication in Persian
• Language Policy Unit: Intergovernmental Conference on "The language dimension in all subjects: equity and quality in education"
• Pestalozzi Programme: developing competences for democracy

What is coming up?

• Take part in testing descriptors for Competences for Democratic Culture
• 47th Meeting and Conference of ALTE "The concept of quality in language education"
• 22nd ICC Annual Conference 2015 "Languages at work 2020"
• XIV CercleS International Conference 2016 "Enhancing learners’ creative and critical thinking: the role of university language centres"

National developments

• Austria: ÖSZ Sprachbox 2/2015
• Denmark: new ECML project publication database in 4 languages
• Switzerland: specific competence profiles for language teachers, report on plurilingual education in history, new ECML national contact point

European Commission

• ET2020 Working Group on transversal skills (8-9 October, Brussels, Belgium)
• Multilingual Europe: Translating in and for multilingual communities (27 October 2015, Graz, Austria)
• Multilingual classrooms
• Languages and employability

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