International Federation of Language Teacher Associations

Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes

PROJECTS

LiP2027 

LiP2027 – Language is Plural: Celebrating Multilingualism in Language Education will take place in Vienna from 26 to 29 July 2027 and will bring together two major international events: the FIPLV World Congress and the International Delegates’ Conference of the IDV, which will take place from 26 to 28 July 2027. The IDV Assembly of Delegates will be held on 29 July 2027. 

The conference will focus on multilingualism as a social reality and as a central concern of language education. LiP2027 invites language teachers, researchers, practitioners and representatives of language teacher associations from around the world to engage in multilingual exchange on current issues in language learning, language didactics, educational equity and language policy. 

The conference is organised on behalf of the IDV and FIPLV by the Austrian Association for German as a Foreign/Second Language (ÖDaF), in cooperation with the University of Vienna. As a multilingual international conference, LiP2027 makes a strong statement in favour of recognising, promoting and valuing linguistic diversity in education and society. 

Read more: LiP2027 – International Federation of Language Teacher Associations 

Actual projects

Description of World Congress here

FIPLV is an associate partner on the Lingu@num project.

Lingu@num is a strategic partnership for digital education, co-financed by the European Commission (Agence Nationale Erasmus+ France) in the framework of the Erasmus+ programme.

It aims at enhancing the teaching and learning of languages using digital tasks.

The project provides:

  • pedagogical training for language teachers who want or need to teach with digital technology. It deals with the design and implementation of digital tasks and includes a catalogue of suggested tasks;
  • a guide and activity sheets for learners showing how informal participation in participatory sites in the target language can help develop language skills and digital literacy/citizenship.

Website: https://www.linguanum.eu/

European Year of Languages 2001

IRIS

Website: www.iris-database.org

IRIS is a free, digital repository of materials used to collect data for research into second language learning and teaching. FIPLV has been supporting IRIS since it first began to be developed as we feel that it is a hugely valuable resource.

Since the site went live in January 2012, over 3600 instruments, used to collect data for a range of L2 research, have been uploaded. IRIS has now had over 20,000 downloads, almost double this time last year. These instruments are all downloadable and can be easily used or adapted for teacher-led research in the language classroom. IRIS is funded by the British Academy and the ESRC, and supported by a wide international network of journal editors and research and teaching associations.

Follow the IRIS Facebook page for IRIS news and updates on open science.

OASIS (Open Accessible Summaries in Language Studies)

The OASIS database aims to make research in language studies more accessible to practitioners, such as teachers and curriculum developers. We currently have over 1350 one-page summaries written in non-technical language freely available on the website. We add new summaries every week, including summaries of all new research articles appearing in Language Learning, TESOL Quarterly, The Modern Language Journal, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

To make it even easier to keep up with the latest research, you will now be able to sign up to an automated weekly email containing links to new summaries. We provide two options:

1) Sign up to all summaries. Every week you will receive an email with links to all new summaries. We recommend this option if you have wide-ranging interests or are interested in all new language-related research

OR

2) Subscribe to keywords that match your interests. Every week you will receive an email with links to all new summaries that match your selected keywords.

Sign up here:

https://subscriptions.oasis-database.org/

Unesco Project on the Languages of the World

Language Acts and Worldmaking

FIPLV is delighted to be a partner on the largest Languages Research project ever funded in the UK! Language Acts and Worldmaking is a flagship project funded by the AHRC Open World Research Initiative (OWRI), which aims to regenerate and transform modern language learning by foregrounding language’s power to shape how we live and make our worlds.

For further information, please visit the website: https://languageacts.org

For further information about OWRI, which consists of four major projects (of which Language Acts and Worldmaking is one) and which has been funded £16,000,000, see here: https://ahrc.ukri.org/research/fundedthemesandprogrammes/themes/owri/ 

Conference videos now available to watch

In its first conference, Languages Memory, which ran from 13-14 June, the aim was to enliven awareness of the ways in which languages are experienced, practised, taught and researched. We reflected upon the place of language learning and engaged with the material and historical force of languages in the world.

Conference sessions all responded to the central theme of Languages Memory in innovative and creative ways, working across a wide range of disciplines and methodologies. Sessions included expert panels, drama and soundscape workshops, poetry presentations, and autoethnographic reflections. The conference programme also included a specially invited keynote address, and expert policy panel (consisting of Prof Terry Lamb of the University of Westminster and Secretary General of FIPLV, as well as Dr Lid King of The Languages Company, former National Director for Languages).

Video and audio clips of the session are now up and can be found here

Completed projects / Projets complèts