This special issue of Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching is focusing on the work of the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) and includes the dimensions of theory, research and innovative practice of selected projects.

The introductory article in this issue, by the Executive Director of the ECML, Waldemar Martyniuk, and Susanna Slivensky, Deputy Executive Director and Head of Programmes, provides an overview of the Centre, including its 2008-2011 programme "Empowering language professionals". All of the projects reported here formed part of this programme and are introduced in the introductory article, which also informs us of the new programme for 2012-2015 "Learning through languages: Promoting inclusive, plurilingual and intercultural education".

Bibliographical reference

Lamb, Terry (ed.), Special issue : The European Centre for Modern Languages : empowering language professionals, in Innovation in language learning and teaching, Routledge, Vol. 6, No. 3, November 2012, ISSN 1750-1229

Contents

• Table of contents
  
  

• Editorial
  Terry Lamb
   
• Empowering language professionals – the contribution of the European Centre for Modern Languages in Graz to innovation in language teaching and learning
  Waldemar Martyniuk and Susanna Slivensky
   

• Supporting good practice in teacher education through the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages
  David Newby
   

• ConBaT+: adding a plurilingual/cultural dimension to content-based teaching
  Mercè Bernaus, Áine Furlong, Sofie Jonckheere & Martine Kervran
   

• The framework of reference for pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures – a complement to the CEFR to develop plurilingual and intercultural competences
  Michel Candelier, Petra Daryai-Hansen & Anna Schröder-Sura
   

• Promoting plurilingualism in the majority language classroom
  Klaus-Börge Boeckmann
   

• The European Language Portfolio in whole-school use
  David Little
   

• Language associations and collaborative support: language teacher associations as empowering spaces for professional networks
  Terry Lamb
   

• List of reviewers