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On 31 August 2024, the Brazilian German Teachers Association (BraDLV) held its annual board meeting on the premises of the German School in Curitiba, Brazil. This event brought together representatives from BraDLV and its six regional associations to share their annual reports and discuss current developments in German language education across the country.

A highlight of the meeting was a language policy workshop on best practices for implementing the Vienna Theses in Brazil. The workshop was led by FIPLV Secretary General Geraldo de Carvalho.

A representative from the Goethe-Institut São Paulo also joined the meeting and emphasized the importance of joint projects between BraDLV and the Goethe-Institut.

Stay connected for more news on upcoming projects and collaborations that aim to enhance German language education in Brazil!

Dear Conference Participants,

Thank you to everyone who has already registered for the guided tour, as well as to those who have informed us of their inability to attend.

For those still considering, we wanted to share a brochure (see below) containing some information about the sites we will be visiting: Madara’s Horserider, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the first Bulgarian capital cities – Pliska and Veliki Preslav. 

Tour Details: Date: 29th September (Sunday), time: 12:30 to approximately 18:00, approximate cost: 40 BGN (about 20 EUR)

(Please note: The final price may vary slightly depending on the number of participants.)

If you have not registered yet, you can still do it by filling out the following registration form by 12th September: https://forms.gle/1ipcECZRW5GrfX8bA

If you have any questions or need further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We look forward to welcoming you in September!

Kind regards,

Lina Yanbastieva-Petrova

On behalf of the Conference Organising Team

Bulgarian English Teachers’ Association (BETA-Bulgaria)

http://www.beta-iatefl.org ; beta.iateflbg@gmail.com

Dear FIPLV Members and Friends,

We are pleased to invite your contributions to the FIPLV Newsletter – September-October 2024. We welcome news on past events, upcoming events, conference calls, conference reports, information about non-commercial resources, curriculum developments, policy involvements, awards, and book reviews on works authored by members of your associations. You can also send photos with your submissions.

Contributions can be submitted in a language other than English (of the respective member association). In this case, we also expect an abstract in English.

FIPLV Newsletter is widely distributed by email and shared through social media networks. It is also posted on the FIPLV website both as pdf and flipbook.

Please check the instructions in the file below or on p. 33 of the FIPLV Newsletter (Issue 1, April 2024) at https://fiplv.com/fiplv-newsletter/ when preparing your material for submission.

All materials should be submitted by email to sylvia.velikova@gmail.com by 20 September 2024.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Kind regards,

Sylvia

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Sylvia Velikova, PhD

Associate Professor (TEFL/TESOL)
Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
http://www.uni-vt.bg

Publications Officer
Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes
https://fiplv.com

Registrations are now open for the Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU) Eighth Biennial Colloquium hosted by the University of Sydney’s School of Languages and Cultures on 27–29 November 2024.

The colloquium features keynotes from a host of experts from Australia and beyond:

• Denise Angelo, Jasmine Seymour, Josephine Lardy and Carmel Ryan (Indigenous panel) | Recognising Indigenous language ecologies – why this matters in practice and policy

• Professor Charles Forsdick (University of Cambridge) | From crisis to transformation: towards a UK national languages strategy

• Professor Claire Maree (University of Melbourne) | Disrupting inequities: diversity, inclusion and social equity in tertiary language education

Join scholars, practitioners, early career researchers and postgraduate students to explore the theme ‘Trans/Formation: research and education in languages and cultures’ to consider how (re)constructing ideas and practices can help us to think in new ways across the relationship between culture and language.

Concession and LCNAU members rates are available.

Learn more and register now

For enquiries, please contact: lcnau.colloquium2024@sydney.edu.au

Thanks to the School of Languages at University of Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia, the FIPLV members now have access to the latest issue of Íkala, Journal of Language and Culture.

To read this issue, please visit Ikala Journal Vol. 29 No. 2 (2024).

Dear Representatives of FIPLV Member Associations,

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the organising committee of the 2^nd FIPLV Central-Eastern Europe Regional Congress, which will be held in the beautiful city of Shumen/Bulgaria on 27th-29th September 2024, I’m pleased to inform you that the deadline to submit a proposal in one of the event languages has been extended to 25 July.

We kindly ask you to circulate this call among your members and partners.

After the very successful 1^st FIPLV East European Regional Congress in Varna/Bulgaria in 2017, BETA – the Bulgarian English Teachers’ Association – is hosting this second conference in collaboration with FIPLV and other member associations in the Region.

Please, see the extended call HERE. For more details, please visit the website https://www.beta-iatefl.org/

Best regards from Brazil

Geraldo

Dr Geraldo de Carvalho

Head of the German Language Department – Werther Institut – Juiz de Fora – Brazil

Secretary-General
Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes
https://fiplv.com

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