Dear colleagues, We gladly present to you the online version of the latest issue of Profile: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development (Vol. 23 No. 2, July-December, 2021) which can be consulted at https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/issue/view/5698 We kindly invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to read the articles in more detail. As…

Council of Europe Recommendation on the importance of plurilingual and intercultural education for democratic culture Thе Recommendation to member states on the importance of plurilingual and intercultural education for democratic culture  was adopted on 2 February 2022 at a meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies. This important document addresses two issues of concern to the Council of…

Dear colleagues worldwide, We are pleased to let you know that the organisation of the NZALT Biennial Conference / FIPLV World Congress 2024 in Auckland has received a whole range of submissions for papers and workshops and is looking forward to putting together a vibrant programme for attendees.  If you haven’t yet had the opportunity to…

Council of Europe Recommendation on the importance of plurilingual and intercultural education for democratic culture Thе Recommendation to member states on the importance of plurilingual and intercultural education for democratic culture  was adopted on 2 February 2022 at a meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies. This important document addresses two issues of concern to the Council of…

OASIS Open Accessible Summaries in Language Studies (OASIS)OASIS is an online database of one-page summaries of peer-reviewed studies on language learning, language teaching, and multilingualism, written in non-technical language. Research findings often do not reach the people who could benefit from them, as journal articles can be hidden behind paywalls and are frequently written in highly technical language.…

Setting up a multilingual Language Teacher Association In 2015, FIPLV Member Association BETA organised a Roundtable with representatives from several unilingual teacher associations in Bulgaria. The purpose was to explore the benefits of enabling language teachers of all languages to collaborate. The Roundtable explored these issues and shared a number of different models of collaboration,…

Speak to the Future FIPLV President Terry Lamb is happy to share expertise, advise and support associations in making a case for languages in their countries. He is currently actively engaged in the Speak to the Future campaign for languages in the UK, which has negotiated access to senior policymakers, after many years of campaigning on language issues locally and nationally through his work with the Association…

Why Languages Matter! (Funded by ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Festival of Social Science) Multilingualism throughout the Sheffield City Region Sheffield is a vibrant multilingual city, in which over 120 languages are spoken in our varied communities. These range from languages used in the home or learnt at school, to those spoken by the many visitors…