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24.03.2025National training workshop: Relating language curricula, tests and examinations to the CEFR (RELANG) (18 - 19 March 2025, Utrecht, Netherlands)
Local organiser: Andrea Lutz, Levende Talen
ECML experts: José Noijons (Netherlands), Karine Dekeukelaere (Belgium)
Participants: 11 (teachers and teacher trainers, curriculum developers, publishers)
Getting started with RELANG and the updated final attainment levels for modern foreign languages.
“It's an honour to be here” said Wendoline Timmerman from the Ministry of Education, Department of Secondary Education and ECML Governing board member for the Netherlands at the opening of the two-day RELANG training workshop that took place on 18 and 19 March 2025 in Utrecht. This is unique for the Netherlands and has long been a wish of Ms Timmerman’s to bring the importance of the CEFR to the minds of teachers of modern foreign languages. Levende Talen has thus made a first step towards professionalising teachers in CEFR and its relation to the updates of the core objectives and examination programmes for modern foreign languages developed by SLO, national expertise centre for the curriculum.
An enthusiastic group of teachers, a curriculum developer and a teacher trainer took part in this inspiring workshop. Participants were introduced to the principles of the CEFR Companion Volume where the relationship with the attainment targets and core objectives was made clearly visible. By gaining insight into how the alignment with descriptors of the modern foreign language exam programme domains Communication, Language Awareness and Cultural Awareness and CEFR was made, participants were able to produce their own test materials through assignments and grading instruments. All are now looking forward to applying this new knowledge in their own learning environments.
Andrea Lutz, local coordinator, 21 March 2025
ECML project website: RELANG, ECML-EC cooperation agreement 2025 "Innovative methodologies and assessment in language learning"
06.10.2017Workshop "Beyond CLIL" (Amersfoort, The Netherlands, 13 September 2017)
The presentation delivered by ECML representatives was very insightful. It gave participants a new perspective on their current teaching and the way they can help their students experience a deeper learning. The presentation was interesting and sparked a discussion amongst the participants and trainers, which helped to deepen understanding of the subject ‘Pluriliteracies”. In the second half of the training, participants were given the opportunity to get hands on with the material. They were positive about the training and felt inspired to get to work with new ideas.
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[Dutch version]
De presentatie van de ECML vertegenwoordigers was erg inzichtelijk. Het gaf de deelnemers een nieuw perspectief op hun huidige manier van lesgeven en een manier om leerlingen met meer diepgang te laten leren. De presentatie was interessant en zorgde voor discussies tussen de deelnemers onderling en de trainers. Deze discussies leidden weer tot een beter begrip van het onderwerp Pluriliteracies. In de tweede helft van de training kregen de deelnemers de kans om aan de slag te gaan met voorbeeldmateriaal. De deelnemers lieten zich positief uit over de training en gaven aan geïnspireerd te zijn om de ideeën in hun werk te gaan toepassen.
Mieke van der Made, Nuffic (local organisation)
ECML experts: Oliver Meyer, Germany; Kevin Schuck, The Netherlands. Local organiser: Lieke Boersma, Project Officer, Nuffic, Schools Network Department, The Hague, The Netherlands. Participants: up to 50 CLIL teachers/coordinators.
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12.10.2016 “The effects of migration on the position of minority languages”: Symposium by Mercator European Research Centrexxx
On 11 november 2016, the Mercator Research Centre will host a symposium - organised in consultation with other Frisian organisations - on the effects of migration on the position of minority languages. The relation between immigration, migrant languages and regional and minority languages is a theme that has become more and more important in recent years, in particular in the field of minority language education.
At the symposium, six speakers, each an expert of multilingualism and surrounding issues, will give their own (international) perspective on the issue. Participants will discuss how the experts’ views can be ‘translated’ to the situation in Fryslân.
The symposium is open to all.
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