The Scottish CILT annual conference will deal with two themes: a final look at motivation and consideration of the implications for modern languages of A Curriculum for Excellence.
The programme for the day is likely to include the following:

A summary of Scottish CILT’s work on motivation

Motivating boys, a presentation by Barry Jones

An introduction to the main […]

English firms need to get up to speed on the languages and mores of their trading partners, writes Mike Nicks in this article for the Times Online.

Language expert David Graddol warns in a study published recently by the British Council that monolingual English graduates face “a bleak economic future” as multilingual workers from other countries […]

Exposing your child to a second - or even more - language is a wonderful gift to give them, writes Annalisa Barbieri in the Education Guardian. But how to do it? She mentions among other resources the BBC’s Muzzy language course for young children.

On edu.blogs today, Ewan McIntosh discusses today’s Herald article concerning languages and new technologies and what has caused him to post an answer to the article. Here’s an example from the post:
Most ‘typical’ modern languages lessons do not, these days, revolve around teacher and textbook. Some do, but most typical lessons are taught by vibrant teachers with a […]

SQA announce that they will shortly be appointing a Development Officer who will have specific responsibility for the development of this qualification. Higher Urdu will be available to all their centres from academic session 2007-08 with the first certification taking place in August 2008.
This marks an important stage in the development of their qualifications in minority […]

Apple Macintosh launched their first home computer with spotlights and Also Sprach Zarathustra booming across the theatre. Across the screen of the tiny little beige box Macintosh Class scrolled a message written in the curliest and, at the time, most elegant typeface known to mankind: Zapf Chancery. For this in the world of PCs, exchange […]

OK, if you’re reading this it’s because you realise that PowerPoint can be a useful tool in making things clearer. If you’ve made it this far in the top ten tips it’s because you enjoy having that support. But PowerPoint and Support don’t need to go together. You could use many a visual to back […]