The Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes, founded in Paris in 1931, is the only international multilingual association of teachers of languages. It has Non-governmental Organisation (NGO) ‘official partner’ status with UNESCO and has representation as an NGO with the Council of Europe.
What FIPLV shares with you:
□ Support with promoting language learning
□ Contact with associations all over the world
□ Ideas for managing a language teacher association
□ Information about other language organisations
□ Open discussion among members (Forum)
□ Engagement in projects
□ Resources for language teaching, teacher training and researchers
□ Information about events: World Congresses, FIPLV Regional events, and other conferences and activities through our regular News and Twitter feeds
□ Information about publications
□ Documents on language policyAnd, of course, all our latest news!
The Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes (FIPLV)
Profile
The Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes, founded in Paris in 1931, is the only international multilingual association of teachers of languages. It has Non-governmental Organisation (NGO) consultative status with UNESCO and has representation as an NGO with the Council of Europe.
Aims
– to promote the teaching and learning of languages in order to facilitate and improve communication, understanding, cooperation and friendly relations among all peoples of the world
– to develop, support and promote policies designed to diversify the languages taught
– to improve the quality of language teaching and make this teaching available to all
– to develop the continuity and cohesion of multilingual education in primary, secondary, further, higher and adult education
– to improve the professional training and development of future and practising language teachers in all sectors of education
– to help and advise on the founding of professional associations of language teachers
– to coordinate and develop the work of its member associations- to facilitate collaboration amongst its member associations around the world
– to encourage teachers of different languages to cooperate with each other locally, nationally and internationally to promote the teaching of languages and language policy based on principles of multilingualism;
– to support nationally and represent internationally the views of member associations
– to provide a vehicle of international solidarity for language teachers from different regions of the world
– to actively promote the importance of multilingualism and the study of languages
Members
Members of FIPLV may be either international unilingual associations or federations of language teachers, national multilingual associations or national unilingual associations where their language is not represented by an international unilingual federation, which is a member of FIPLV.
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Structure
The FIPLV governance consists of two organs: The World Assembly and the Executive Committee. The key authority is the World Assembly, which brings together the representatives of member associations every year
FIPLV Executive Committee
(2024 – 2027)
PresidentTerry Lamb (UK)Professor of Languages and Interdisciplinary Pedagogy,
University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW
Tel: +44 (0)20 7911 5000 ext 67318
Email: T.Lamb1@westminster.ac.uk
Vice-PresidentSigurborg Jónsdóttir (Iceland)Spítalastíg 2B, 101
Reykjavík, Iceland
Tel: 00354 8643827
Email:
sigurborgjons@gmail.com
Treasurer-GeneralJudith Richters (The Netherlands)Burg. Smitsstraat 8, 3523 KL Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tel: 0031-629032886
Email: judithrichters@ziggo.nl
Secretary-GeneralGeraldo de Carvalho (Brazil)Head of the Language Department
Werther Institut – Juiz de Fora – Brazil
Email: geraldo.carvalho@werther.com.br
Publications OfficerSylvia Velikova (Bulgaria)Associate Professor at the Faculty of Modern Languages,
St Cyril & St Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo, 5003 Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria
Email: sylvia.velikova@gmail.com
The FIPLV Executive Committee at the FIPLV-NBR / STÍL Conference in Reykjavík, University of Iceland, 8-9 June 2023 (left to right): Sigurborg Jónsdóttir (Vice-President), Terry Lamb (President), Sylvia Velikova (Publications Officer), Judith Richters (Treasurer), Geraldo de Carvalho (Secretary-General)