April 2010
Participation of ECML staff in an event
7-10 April 2010
Conference on Applied Interculturality Research
Venue: Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria
Organiser: Karl-Franzens University, Graz
Participants: about 80 practicionners, researchers
ECML contribution: presentation by Waldemar Martyniuk, Executive Director; contribution to the conference handbook; documentation for the ECML stand
Website
Visit of the ECML
14 April 2010
Participants: a teacher with her 17 students from the private secondary school "Ursulinen" (Graz, Austria)
Participation of ECML staff in an event
15-16 April 2010
LETPP Conference “Unlocking the Gates of Languages”
Venue: the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK
Organiser: LSE
ECML contribution: plenary speech by Waldemar Martyniuk, Executive Director; documentation
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Participation in an external event
15-16 April 2010
3rd International Colloquy on "Languages and Technology / Teaching - Learning & Acquisition"
Venue: Casablanca, Morocco
Organiser: University Hassan II Casablanca – Mohammedia
Expert: Anthony Fitzpatrick, Spain
Participants: modern language teachers, methodologists, education professionals
ECML contribution: expert mission, documentation
ECML project site
Participation in an external event
22-24 April 2010
EAQUALS Marketing Workshop (22 April), Annual General Meeting (23 April) and International Conference "Upholding and accrediting excellence in language education"
Venue: Berlin, Germany
Organiser: EAQUALS
Participants: EAQUALS member representatives only (Marketing Workshop and Annual General Meeting); 135 conference participants: school directors, directors of studies, teachers, marketing people
ECML contribution: documentation for the ECML stand
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Visit of the ECML
23 April 2010
Participants: 3 teachers from Norway, 1 teacher from Austria (Sporthauptschule Weiz, coordinator of a bilateral Comenius co-operation project between Austria and Norway)
Visit of the du CELV
23 April 2010
Participants: Odile Canale, General Delegation for the French Language and the Languages of France (Délégation générale à la langue francaise et aux langues de France), Ministry of Culture and Communication, and Frédéric Sauvage, Attache for education co-operation, French Embassy in Austria
National support event
23-24 April 2010
Annual Conference of the Bulgarian Association of English Teachers “European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages – EPOSTL“
Venue: Veliko Tirnovo, Bulgaria
Expert: David Newby, Austria
Organiser: Bulgarian Association of English Teachers
Participants: modern language teachers
Participation in an external event
23-25 April 2010
Eleventh Biennial TEA Conference "Vienna ConneXion 2010 - Teaching English in the Twenty-First Century"
Venue: Vienna, Austria
Organiser: Teachers of English in Austria (TEA)
Participants: TEA members
ECML contribution: documentation
Website
Participation in an external event
24 April 2010
Colloquium “Instructed Language Learning”
Venue: University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Organiser: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Participants: hundreds of foreign language teachers in Greece and students of the School of English of the University of Thessaloniki
ECML contribution: documentation for the ECML stand organised by the Centre for the Greek Language, the National Contact Point for the ECML in Greece
Preparatory meeting of the network meeting
26 April 2010
“The European Language Portfolio in whole-school use” (ELP-WSU)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Participants: project team
Network meeting
27-28 April 2010
“The European Language Portfolio in whole-school use” (ELP-WSU)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: David Little, Ireland
Co-animators: Marnie Beaudoin, Canada; Francis Goullier, France; Rose Margarethe Oehler, Austria; Rosanna Margonis-Pasinetti, Switzerland
Participants: active members of the network nominated by the project team
Participation of ECML staff in an event
27-30 April 2010
Meetings with representatives of the Commissioner of Official Languages and the Department of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages
Conference
27-28 April 2010
"Individual Plurilingualism and Multilingual Communities in a Context of Official Bilingualism" (29-30 April)
Venue: University of Ottawa, Canada
Organiser: the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI, the National Contact Point for the ECML in Canada) and its research centre CCERBAL, in collaboration with the Canadian Association for Second Language Teachers (CASLT)
Participants: about 150
ECML contribution: participation of Waldemar Martyniuk, Executive Director, as a guest speaker; documentation for the ECML stand
