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UCC is looking for Professor of German

11/3/2019

UCC currently invites applications for the position of Professor in German. Feel free to circulate to experienced academics who may be interested in applying. Deadline is 2nd April.

Using this link and searching for the keyword 'German' should get you to the vacancy details:

https://ore.ucc.ie/pls/corerecruit/erq_search_package.search_form?p_company=5023&p_internal_external=E

Seán Mc Donagh on Leaving Certificate and languages

3/2/2019

Document can be found in September NAPD Leader Journal on Leaving Certificate 2018. It mentions languages and suggests an initiative on the universal availability of Level 6 language courses for those who succeed in a language at school to enable full fluency.

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Same old story...

29/1/2019

International employers find that Irish graduates lack foreign language skills. Irish Independent article, 27th January 2019

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Question from a colleague in Denmark

28/1/2019

Can anyone help Maria Neumann Larsen with the following request:
Examples of local language policies /strategies for primary schools (in Denmark that is age 5-16), describing the school’s practice in the areas: language choice in everyday communication and in class, use of /instruction in minority language, language pedagogy /supporting student language development across the curriculum, language testing, strategies for including NNS newcomers, and so on.
Her email address is [email protected]

Language Provision in IoTs

25/11/2018

Insightful and thought-provoking report on language provision in IoTs by Dr Sarah Berthaud (GMIT), Dr Riana Walsh (IT Tallaght) and Dr Kristin Brogan (IT Tralee). We welcome your comments and thoughts.

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Reviving ELSTA

18/11/2018

The English Language Support Teachers Association (ELSTA, established 2006) asks for your support in their effort to revive the association.
The revival of ELSTA is necessary as teachers of general subjects have expressed frustration at the lack of training in English as an Additional Language (EAL). The suspicions that EAL students are not reaching their potential in Irish schools were copper fastened in recent days, when the results of Unicef’s Report Card 15 were published.

Please read more in the letter from ELSTA below and sign it by November 23rd if you are in favour of a revival of the group.

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OVFL committee members receive prestigious Palmes Académiques

22/10/2018

The French Ambassador to Ireland, H.E. Stéphane Crouzat, conferred the prestigious title of 'Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques' on Tanya Flanagan and Marie-Thérèse Batardière at a ceremony at the French Residence in Dublin on Friday, October 19th.
This award was in recognition of their contribution to language education and the promotion of French language and culture in Ireland.
Both are members of the One Voice for Languages Committee.

RTÉ Brainstorm article on the year abroad by Claire Reilly and Siobhan Mortell,, UCC

20/10/2018

Article looks at research on students’ year abroad experiences and the programme Erasmus+. The authors highlight courses run at UCC to prepare students going on an Erasmus year abroad and to help them throughout their stay. The article also features an analysis by Liam Geraghty (RTÉ Radio One's The Business) who looks back at 30 years of the Erasmus+ project. www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2018/1017/1004733-how-students-can-make-the-best-of-a-year-abroad/

Could do better… Opinion piece on lack of foreign language capacity by Jennifer Bruen DCU

20/10/2018

www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2018/0827/987826-ireland-foreign-languages-schools-universities-business/

Link leading to RTE Brainstorm website, which is based on a partnership between RTE and third level institutions in Ireland.
The article also includes a link to the RTÉ Radio One's Today With Sean O'Rourke Show, with a discussion on Ireland's foreign language deficit with Paul Gillespie (former Foreign Policy Editor, Irish Times), Lynn Ruane (former president, Student Union, Trinity College Dublin) and Anna Ni Challachair (director, Language Centre, Maynooth).

Our letter to the DES regarding under-representation of third level institutions on FLAG

19/9/2018

One Voice for Languages, the inclusive and representative body for all languages across all education sectors, and IRAAL, the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, wish to bring to your attention the current under-representation by language practitioners from Institutes of Technology and Universities on the Foreign Language Advisory Group.

We appreciate that currently the Teacher Training Sector is representing third level at FLAG. However, representation from other strands of third level education would be logical, especially since the Foreign Language Strategy envisages a substantial increase of students studying a modern language at third level. This increase is only feasible, if a broader spectrum of viewpoints from across third level language education is represented.

Hence, we would welcome the addition of colleagues from third level institutions to join FLAG and help make the 10-year-plan become reality.