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Prof. Martin East, Senior Vice-President of our member association, NZALT has kindly allowed us to share the free downloadable copy of his new book widely with our members. Prof. East is one of the organisers of our next FIPLV World Congress in Auckland, New Zealand, 6^th-9^th July 2024. His excellent contribution to the Elements series “examines how pedagogical innovation in language classrooms can be mediated through language teacher education (LTE) by subjecting the author’s own practices as a teacher educator to scrutiny”.

The book will be available for free until 3^rd November.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009127998

Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/mediating-innovation-through-language-teacher-education/CD26B37159C9BBA029712EDF3574EA83

Ikala is proud to present our latest special issue (volume 27, issue 3) on Decoloniality in ELT, prepared with Co-editors Carmen Helena Guerrero, Clarissa Jordão, and Gabriela Veronelli. This special issue deals with a thorny issue that questions the core of deeply rooted assumptions in ELT and proposes a myriad of approaches to English teaching otherwise. The cover and dividers that adorn it display different details of the work “Interacción”, by talented Colombian artist Laura Carolina Osorio Villa.

Link: https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/ikala/issue/view/4048

Dear ALTE friends,

We are pleased to announce that the registration is now open for the ALTE Conference Day, Friday 11^th November 2022.

The theme of the conference is: The less widely spoken languages from the perspective of plurilingualism.

The conference will take place in Prague on Friday 11^th November 2022 and will be hosted by Charles University, Prague, the Institute for Language and Preparatory Studies (ILPS) at the Karolinum Building

The event will be organised with a hybrid format, with the opportunity for those delegates who are not able or allowed to travel to connect online (please note the workshops in the afternoon of Friday 11^th November will not be online). The online platform used will be Zoom.

The registration deadline is Monday 24^th October.

Draft Programme

Please find attached the draft programme of the conference day. There might be slight changes in the next months, but this will be the structure of the event.

Practical Information

Please see attached the practical information document for the event. The document has very useful info regarding the practical arrangements to attend the conference, the registration process and how to get to the venue of the event.

Virtual attendance

For all our colleagues that are not able or allowed to travel we are organising remote access for the Conference day (Friday 11^th November, from 9am till 3pm). The platform used will be Zoom and you will receive practical information on how to join the meetings virtually nearer the time.

How to register

Please follow the link to the registration page: https://www.alte.org/event-4685276

Contribution to host organisers:

For those who are attending physically the event, the registration fee will be €50, while for those attending online (Conference Day, 9am-3pm) the registration fee is €10.

The link to pay the contributions is here: https://www.goforboom.com/events/alte-58th-conference-day

More info on the payment for the contribution is available in the Practical information document, page 10-11.

Cancellation from the event is possible. If you are not attending the event anymore, please inform the ALTE Secretariat as soon as possible. The refund of the contribution (€50 or €10) is possible, but this might take from 2 to 3 months to be processed and there will be an admin fee of €2.

ALTE COURSE IN LANGUAGES FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES TEST DESIGN

Prior to the ALTE Conference Day, ALTE is organising a course in Language for Specific Purposes Test Design. The event will take place face to face in Prague (at the Karolinum Building) on Tuesday 8^th November 2022. The course tutor will be Professor Anthony Green (CRELLA, University of Bedfordshire). Please click here to see the outline and the programme of the course.

The deadline for the registration is Monday 24^th October. To register please click on this link: https://www.alte.org/event-4873347

COVID-19 UPDATE: The ALTE Secretariat, together with our colleagues of Charles University are constantly monitoring the international situation regarding the Covid-19 pandemic. We are aware that some of you might not have the opportunity to travel to Prague and so we are making arrangements to provide some remote access to the conference. We would encourage to check the ‘Travel sanitary policy’ section of the practical information document (page 5) and to follow this link: https://covid.gov.cz/en/situations/foreigners/possibilities-and-obligations-foreigners-when-entering-cz, please check also the guidance provided by your own country.

If you need more information about the conference or the ALTE Course, do not hesitate to get in touch with the ALTE Secretariat (secretariat@alte.org) or our conference hosts (konference@ujop.cuni.cz).

We look forward to meeting you soon in Prague!

Best wishes,

ALTE Secretariat and Charles University Organising Committee

Cher.e.s members,

Au cours de l’Assemblée Générale de la Conférence des OING du Conseil de l’Europe qui a eu lieu les 5 et 6 avril dernier, le « Comité Droit des personnes migrantes » a présenté un bilan provisoire de ses actions au sein de la Conférence.

La situation concernant les personnes fuyant le conflit ukrainien a été largement évoquée de manière concrète. Plus largement, une présentation rapide de la synthèse des réponses au questionnaire que vous avez reçu durant le premier trimestre 2022 a pu être faite. Cette analyse globale de la situation des OING et des personnes migrantes est maintenant complétée et se trouve sur le site de la conférence (lien).

Par ailleurs, pour faciliter la communication entre les OING de la Conférence et pour que chacune d’elle puisse présenter le « Comité droit des personnes migrantes » à ses ONG nationales ou locales, un document grand public illustré de quelques témoignages et photos a été rédigé ces dernières semaines. Il vous est proposé en pièce jointe en anglais et en français. N’hésitez pas à le diffuser.

Le « Comité droit des personnes migrantes » continue à être vigilant sur la situation migratoire en Europe et se tient prêt à recevoir toute remarque et / ou proposition de la part des OING membres de la Conférence.

A tous nous souhaitons un bel été tout en n’oubliant pas que les droits des personnes migrantes sont défendus tous les mois de l’année, notamment grâce à la Société Civile que nous représentons pour une grande part !

Le Comité droit des personnes migrantes   

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Dear members,

During the General Assembly of the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe, which took place on 5 and 6 April, the “Migrants’ Rights Committee” presented a provisional assessment of its actions within the Conference.

The situation of people fleeing the Ukrainian conflict was widely discussed in a concrete manner. More broadly, a brief presentation was made of the summary of the responses to the questionnaire that you received during the first quarter of 2022. This global analysis of the situation of INGOs and migrants is now completed and can be found on the conference website (link).

In addition, to facilitate communication between the INGOs of the Conference and so that each of them can present the “Migrant Workers’ Rights Committee” to its national or local NGOs, a document for the general public illustrated with a few testimonies and photos has just been drafted. It is available as an attachment in English and French. Do not hesitate to distribute it.

The “Migrants’ Rights Committee” continues to be vigilant on the migration situation in Europe and is ready to receive any comments and/or proposals from the INGOs members of the Conference.

We wish all of you a nice summer while not forgetting that the rights of migrants are defended every month of the year, in particular thanks to the Civil Society that we represent for a large part!

The Migrant’s Rights Committee  

Estimados colegas:

Nos complace informar que se encuentra abierta la convocatoria de propuestas para el XIII Coloquio Internacional sobre Investigación en Lenguas Extranjeras: https://www.uv.mx/ciile/convocatoria/

El evento se llevará a cabo en línea del 21 al 23 de septiembre de 2022 y será una oportunidad para difundir y conocer la investigación en el área de las lenguas extranjeras que se adelanta en el contexto de la pandemia de COVID-19.

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Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to let you know that the call for proposals for the XIII International Colloquium on Research in Foreign Languages is now open:

The event will be held online from September 21st to 23rd, 2022. This is a space to share and learn about the research in the area of foreign languages that is being carried out in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Organiza: El Cuerpo Académico “Las Lenguas Extranjeras en el Sistema Público en México” con la colaboración de los grupos de investigación LEXI y PROFILE (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá) y el Grupo de Investigación Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura (Universidad de Granada, España).

CONVOCATORIA/CALL FOR PAPERS

Fecha límite para el envío de propuestas/ Deadline for proposals: 30 de agosto de 2022 / 30 August 2022.

Fecha límite de entrega de resultados/ Deadline for results: 05 de septiembre 22 / 05 September 22.