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The Council of Europe online. Welcome to the new website!
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Austrian Centre of Competence in Languages
The Austrian Centre of Competence in Languages carries out a wide range of activities focusing on innovation in the field of language learning:
- innovative projects and their transfer to various educational institutions (schools, uni-versities and colleges, adult education);
- dissemination of information and examples of good practice as well as networking among experts.
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British Council
The British Council connects people worldwide with learning opportunities and creative ideas from the UK and builds lasting relationships between the UK and other countries.
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Centre canadien des ressources sur l'enseignement des langues (CCREL)
The Canadian Centre for Resources on Language Teaching (CCREL) is a site which aims at providing references deal with research works on the teaching of French as a second language in Canada. This site should be a meeting point for the different people implicated (professors, researchers, students, librarians, administrators, parents, etc.).
CCREL was developed by the Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and realised in cooperation with the Ministry for the Canadian Patrimony and Rescol.
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Centre for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
CAL is a private, non-profit organization: a group of scholars and educators who use the findings of linguistics and related sciences in identifying and addressing language-related problems. CAL carries out a wide range of activities including research, teacher education, analysis and dissemination of information, design and development of instructional materials, technical assistance, conference planning, program evaluation, and policy analysis
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Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (CILT)
The aim of the CILT is to collect and disseminate information on all aspects of modern languages and the teaching of modern languages.
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Centre for the Greek Language
The Centre for the Greek Language is a non-profit organisation, founded in 1994 in Thessaloniki. It operates under the auspices of the Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs and the shared responsability of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture.
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Centre international d’études pédagogiques (CIEP)
The CIEP was founded in order to develop international co-operation in education. The Centre works in three main aspects: the ingeneering of education, the exchanges and international teaching, and the French-speaking communities.
French, Spanish, English
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Department of Language Education and Policy of the Council of Europe
The activities of the Council of Europe in the field of modern languages aim to promote plurilingualism and pluriculturalism among citizens in order to combat intolerance and xenophobia by improving communication and mutual understanding between individuals.
French, English
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Education and Culture Directorate-General of the European Commission
Finnish, French, Greek, German, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, Danish, English, Italian, Portuguese
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European Youth Centre of the Council of Europe
The Centre is part of the Youth Directorate of the Council of Europe. This organisation stands for the promotion and safeguard of democracy, pluralism, the rule of law and human rights.
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EURYDICE
EURYDICE, the education information network in Europe, produces reliable, readily comparable information on national education systems and policies. EURYDICE also acts as an observatory, highlighting both the diversity of systems and their common features.
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Goethe Institut
Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes e. V. is the organisation for the teaching of German language and culture worldwide.
This organisation is financed by the Foreign Office, the German Press Office, sponsors and income from the various institutes.
German, English
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Instituto Cervantes
The Instituto Cervantes is a public institution founded by the Spanish Govermnent in 1991 to promote Spanish language teaching and knowledge of the cultures of Spanish speaking countries throughout the world. It is now the largest worldwide Spanish teaching organisation.The Instituto Cervantes is a non profit-making organisation.
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LALT Latvian Association of Language Teachers
LALT is an umbrella association, i.e. it will provide the forum whereby the language associations can come together and discuss issues that affect them all.
Latvian, English
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Svenska Institutet
The Swedish Institute is a public agency entrusted with disseminating knowledge abroad about Sweden and organizing exchanges with other countries in the spheres of culture, education, research and public life in general.
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The Icelandic Language Institute
The ILI’s roles are to answer linguistic questions, offer educational guidelines,
and provide official resolution on questions of language usage. It is the secretariat
of the Icelandic Language Council under the aegis of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.
Finnish, Danish, English
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The North-South Centre of the Council of Europe (Lisbon)
The Centre provides a framework for European co-operation in raising public awareness on global independence issues; promotes policies of solidarity with the aims and principles of the Council of Europe; creates an interface between Europe and the South to generate new ideas and proposals for constructive relations.
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
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Virtual Finland-Your Window on Finland
A lot of people think Government sites on the Internet are dry and predictable, offering too many speeches, policy statements and press releases. Well, that may be true of some but it is not the case with Virtual Finland.
Virtual Finland does not offer any of that type of material at all. What it does is operate like a magazine covering a wide array of topics through articles written by named authors.
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Bergen-Cando
The Bergen Cando Project, coordinated at the English Department, University of Bergen in co-operation with ECML, Graz, aims to develop ways of describing and documenting what pupils can do, and actually do, in their foreign languages.
Project 2.2.1 of the MTP 2000-2003
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European Day of Languages
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ICT & young learners
Once upon a time ...
...there was the Sun and, as you know very well, many years later the Sun is still there. But what would happen if the Sun is no longer there?
Project 1.3.3 of the MTP 2000-2003
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ICT in vocationally oriented language learning
From Awareness to Impact through Implementation
Project 1.3.1 of the MTP 2000-2003
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Language awareness
The introduction of language awareness into the curriculum.
Project 1.2.1 of the MTP 2000 - 2003
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Quality Management in Language Education
The website is a resource material including:
+ generic aspects of quality management in language education
+ standards and procedures developed at European level (on the example of EAQUALS)
+ case studies from various national and institutional contexts, as examples of good practice
+ questionnaires designed as instruments for awareness-raising & self-reflection / self-assessment
+ instruments for internal and external quality assurance
+ interviews with experts to reflect the latest developments in the field
+ links and contacts for further information
Project 2.7.1 of the MTP 2000-2003
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Web Journals in Language Education (BLOGS)
A peer to peer collaborative writing platform for language learning
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OREL Online Resources for Endangered Languages
OREL (Online Resources for Endangered Languages) is a library of annotated and categorised links to websites for people interested in endangered language documentation and revitalisation.
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The Modern Languages in Primary Schools Initiative (MLPSI)
The Modern Languages in Primary Schools Initiative (MLPSI) supports the teaching and learning of modern languages at primary level in Ireland. Currently over 500 schools are part of this voluntary project and they offer modern language provision in Italian, Spanish, German or French. The MLPSI provides a comprehensive support service for teachers and schools through language-specific CPD, Induction Days for new teachers, Principals’ Seminars, Whole Staff presentations and other training events. We also host an extensive catalogue of on-line resources which has been developed by the MLPSI team specifically for the Irish primary context.
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Easton Language Education
Materials for teaching Albanian, Chinese, Croation, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian, Spanish and other languages. Teaching methods, distance education, teaching resources and information material.
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Adum
The ADUM project aims to offer people and organisations throughout Europe that work for the so-called “regional” or "minority" languages information on the European programmes that can be used to (co)fund projects to promote these languages. ADUM also offers a virtual space to aid the drafting of European proposals by bodies and people working for over 60 linguistic communities across Europe.
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Dictionaries, Grammars, and other online language resources
Private home page including a huge selection of online language resources and translations of basic sentences (How are you? I do not know. I love you etc.) into many languages.
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Educational resources and activities
- offers a vast selection of multimedial educational materials (in French) (examples of "good practice")
- promotes cultural and language diversity
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E-learning
The eLearning Initiative aims to enhance the use of new multimedia technologies and the Internet to improve the quality of learning by facilitating access to resources and services as well as remote exchanges and collaboration.
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Franc-parler.org
Dédié à la communauté des professeurs de français, franc-parler.org permettra à tous d'accéder à des ressources pédagogiques régulièrement actualisées, d’acquérir des éléments de formation professionnelle et d'établir des communications entre ses utilisateurs
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Gateway to information about Norway
A comprehensive collection of feature articles and background information about Norway written by specialists in the various fields. You will find relevant links to other web sites under the menu for each topic.
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iLoveLanguages
The iLoveLanguages Page is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 1800 links in the iLoveLanguages database have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer. Whether you're looking for online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language you've heard about, the HLP probably has something to suit your needs.
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Index of English Language Resources
Website with a large number of useful links for the teaching and learning of the English language, including grammar, dictionaries, conferences, schools or job offers.
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Language Awareness and Diversity
Le projet, à l'origine de ce site, a pour objectif général de développer et de diffuser en contexte québécois l'approche que l'on nomme Éveil aux langues, apparue en Europe au début des années 80.
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Language futures Europe
This site collects links on the language futures of Europe - on language policy, multilingualism, global language structures, and the dominance of English. It starts with a comment on the structures of language: then texts/essays, and sections on EU policy, national policies, and research sites.
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Language Learning Resource Center
For three years a teacher of English at Grenoble University -Bernard Moro, has been developing web-based, language-related methodology and contents.
Colleagues Gabriele Hermann in German and Victor Vorobioff in Russian have joined him to open resources to their students, thereby improving their pedagogical offer and researching appropriate solutions for distance learning.
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Language Resource Centres
This project aimed to improve and develop support for language teaching and learning by sharing expertise between established and emerging Language Resource Centres. It brought together 17 partner organisations from 13 European countries, incl. the ECML. Good Practice Guidelines (available in 14 languages) and a discussion forum may be of interest for anyone involved in setting-up or running Language Resource Centres (LRCs).
Catalan, Bulgarian, Czech, Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, German, Luxemburgish, Maltese, Dutch, Slovene, Galician, Spanish, English
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Languages of the World
An ethnologue including 112 language maps, 241 overviews of language situations by country, 682 bibliographic references, 6,703 language descriptions, Language name index: 39,000+ alternate names and dialect names, Language family index: 99 language family trees, 64,811 hypertext cross-references.
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Linguanet
All around languages: material, research, professional development.
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Linguasphere
"In the galaxy of languages each persons voice is a star". World language register, map base, Linguasphere observatory, definitions of language and a multilingual world.
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Mosaique du Monde
"Mosaique du Monde" (Mosaic of the World) is a non profit-making association that creates points of Internet access in French speaking countries.This association provides technical and material solutions, trains teachers how to use computers and how to integrate the tools of Internet and Multimedia in the line of pedalogical work.
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Opening the Door to Language Learning
The Opening the Door to Language Learning project explored ideas for setting up and supporting open, resource-based and autonomous language learning in a non-formal context. The project outcome was a handbook of practical ideas and advice to assist language learning providers in developing new initiatives for language learning in this context. It was funded by the EU Socrates Lingua 1 programme.
English, Spanish, Dutch, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Irish, Swedish, French (forthcoming) and German (forthcoming).
Hungarian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Swedish, English, Gaelic
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Primlangues
The website portal accompanying teachers and those responsable for foreign languages in primary schools provides useful ressources in 7 languages: German, English, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian.
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Say "hello" - a game to celebrate the EYL
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The big myth
The Big Myth is a new experimental learning module designed for use in European primary school classrooms funded by grants from the Socrates Fund of the European Commission, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences and Kennisnet.
It is a sociology textbook for the comparative study of world creation mythology. The myths are told using Flash animation and are accompanied by an overview of the culture, the pantheon of the gods and a series of exercises based on that culture.
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The European Schoolnet
The European Schoolnet is the framework for the co- operation between the European Ministries of Education on Information and Communication Technology in Education and the European network of national, regional and local educational networks.
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The Language Investigator
This site is aimed at Primary School teachers who are interested introducing a multilingual dimension into their lessons.
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The Web in the classroom
A collection of Web lessons for foreign language classes.
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