Our Languages

Author contribution:

Wendy Newman

Image:

URL:

http://www.ourlanguages.org.uk

Target audience:

Teachers of community and other languages in all complementary and mainstream schools.

Creation date:

2007

Country:

Reach:

nationwide

Commissioning body:

The Government Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), in conjunction with the Centre for International Language Teaching (CILT)

Coordinator:

The Centre for International Language Teaching (CILT)

Context:

The ‘Our Languages' website was set up to raise the status of community languages in the curriculum, to recognise the work of the complementary education sector in England, and to support regional partnerships between schools teaching community languages.

Target language:

Community languages (arabic,chinese...)

Source language:

Content²:

A directory of schools teaching community languages (to enable partnerships), case studies / video clips of partnerships in practice, advice on career development, resources, links, news and events.

Interactive components:

There is an email address for queries / adding events.

Support website:

It contains ideas, examples, articles and resources about community languages and how to teach them effectively, plus information about training events.

The Comenius project SAEL partners

With the following websites:

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.