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Breaking News

Greg Horton who teaches at Wildern School in Hampshire, England, will give a workshop for local facilitators in Athlone’s Hodson Bay Hotel on Friday 11th September. The workshop will offer strategies on encouraging students to speak with confidence in the target language.
Check out Greg’s award-winning approach to Group Talk on Teachers TV: http://www.teachers.tv/videos/32765

Booking forms will be sent to all local facilitators in August.

Greg will also offer a workshop on Group Talk in Mayo Education Centre on Saturday 11 September 2010.

Booking for the workshop in Mayo can be made with Mayo Education Centre: 094-9020700 . 

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Do you know that there are two major DES initiatives to support and extend the teaching of Modern Language in Irish schools?

The first is the Post-Primary Modern Languages Initiative, with an emphasis on Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese. You can sign up for access to the free resources.  Check out the website at http://www.languagesinitiative.ie/

The second is the Modern Languages Primary School Initiative.  The website has excellent resources suitable for students in First and Second Year: http://www.mlpsi.ie/

The European Centre for Modern Languages at Graz supports a range of projects aimed at encouraging excellence and innovation in language teaching.  For further information, check out their website: http://www.ecml.at/ If you would like to learn more about becoming involved with an ECML project, the contact organisation for Ireland is Léargas (www.leargas.ie). For more on the ECLM, click here.

European Day of Languages is on the 26 September 2010  click here for website