In June, Carmel Grehan presented on work undertaken at the Centre for Deaf Studies around piloting the European Language Portfolio (ELP) with a group of second language learners of Irish Sign Language at Trinity College Dublin. Working in partnership with the Irish Sign Language Academy, Carmel led a one day workshop on how the ELP can be used in the teaching and learning of Irish Sign Language for a group of ISL teachers at Deaf Village Ireland in Dublin.

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We are proud to announce that we have made available the results of the surveys that were done during the PRO-Sign1 and PRO-Sign2 project of ECML.

• Here is the link to the Survey report from the ECML project PRO-Sign1:
  Sign languages for professional purposes: The implementation of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for sign languages in higher education - Results of an international survey.
  
  
• And here the link to the Survey report from the ECML project PRO-Sign2 on "Promoting excellence in sign language instructions".

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Preparations for the ProSign2 / efsli conference in Belgrade in October 2018 are in full swing. The registration for the third PRO-Sign Conference is now open and the preliminary programme has been released; the final programme will be available in August. Information can be accessed on the efsli website or ProSign page.

In preparation for the conference, we would like to draw your attention to another ECML project, in which Language Teacher Competencies have been drafted. We invite you to have a look at this information in preparation for our Belgrade conference.

The PRO-Sign2 project team:
Christian Rathmann (coordinator), Tobias Haug, Lorraine Leeson, Beppie van den Bogaerde

• ECML project website "PRO-Sign2 - Promoting excellence in sign language instruction" (available in English, French and sign language)