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Posted on June 05 2023
The Mother Tongue Other Tongue (MTOT) competition has been running in Scotland since 2014, offering young linguists from P1 to S6 the opportunity to &...
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Posted on June 05 2023
In January we hosted our first ‘Show and Tell’, focusing on language learning in the Early Years. We welcomed three guest presenters to sh...
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Posted on December 09 2021
As the pandemic and lockdowns limited access to classrooms and the ability of teachers to travel internationally, the team at the CISS sought out alte...
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Posted on December 09 2021
We are thrilled to announce that all schools involved in the Professional Learning Partnership (PLP) with Save the Children have completed their paren...
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Posted on December 09 2021
In collaboration with Dobrochna Futro and Bilingualism Matters, SCILT has been exploring an innovative approach to using art as a medium to support la...
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Posted on December 09 2021
As part of our professional learning offer for the past few years, SCILT Professional Development Officers have facilitated a number of collaborative ...
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Posted on December 09 2021
After a pandemic-induced hiatus, the Languages Leadership Programme (LLP) returned in June 2021. In transferring wholly online, we welcomed the larges...
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Posted on December 09 2021
At a time when Scotland continues to work towards the incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into Scots Law...
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Posted on December 09 2021
Following on from a successful early years Bitesize and drop-in CLPL session in September, SCILT is continuing to extend its reach in working with col...
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Posted on December 09 2021
On the morning of 10 November 2021, colleagues from across the globe joined ‘Climate Ready Classrooms – Innovations in Transnational Educa...
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Posted on June 03 2021
Presenting at a conference can be nerve-wracking at the best of times. If it’s presenting online at an international conference, it al...
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Posted on June 03 2021
In collaboration with the Polish Social and Educational Society in Glasgow and the Polish Consulate in Edinburgh, SCILT has developed a resource to su...
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Posted on December 09 2020
Scotland’s languages community will celebrate Languages Week Scotland during the week beginning 1 February 2021. Throughout the week SCILT, LANG...
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Posted on December 09 2020
Supporting teachers of languages has always been central to SCILT’s work. The quest to provide high quality professional learning opportunities ...
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Posted on December 09 2020
BSL is a language in its own right, with its own grammar, syntax and vocabulary. It has its own dialects and rich variation. Most importantly, it...
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Posted on June 09 2020
The 1+2 Languages Leadership Programme has been an important feature of the SCILT professional learning calendar for the past six years. During that t...
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Posted on June 09 2020
Unsurprisingly perhaps, the innovative distance learning programme offered in partnership between The Open University and SCILT has been able to conti...
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Posted on December 06 2019
Schools and businesses across Scotland can now receive recognition for successful partnership working in promoting languages as a key skill for employ...
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Posted on December 06 2019
During the month of November, SCILT hosted two bilingual events that allowed audiences, including students from schools and universities, to listen to...
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Posted on December 06 2019
“Generation global: Multilingualism and intercultural skills for a dual-competency workforce of the future” is a three-year Erasmus+ proje...
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Posted on December 06 2019
An exciting new opportunity is on the horizon for schools to offer learning experiences in Arabic language and culture. SCILT, in collaboration with Q...
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Posted on December 06 2019
In October 2019, SCILT and Education Scotland were delighted to award ‘Professional Recognition: Leading learning in languages’ to another...
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Posted on August 12 2019
Towards the end of last academic session, SCILT made contact with all of the Regional Improvement Collaboratives (RICs) in order to find out how langu...
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Posted on August 12 2019
The Springboard Charity helps people of all ages and backgrounds improve their career potential in hospitality, leisure and tourism, especially young ...
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Posted on August 12 2019
‘Family learning is a powerful method of engagement and learning which can foster positive attitudes towards life-long learning, promote socio-e...
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Posted on May 14 2019
Coming in 2019: More leadership and collaborative CLPL opportunities
The 1+2 Languages Leadership Programme (LLP) was recognised for the second con...
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Posted on May 14 2019
New resource will help schools and colleges run local events to highlight the business value of languages through direct engagement with employers
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Posted on May 14 2019
Pupils and parents from three primary schools in North Ayrshire joined a group of senior citizens at the Harbour Arts Centre in Irvine on 15 November ...
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Posted on May 14 2019
This issue, the last under the current editor Dr Hannah Doughty, has contributions from a diverse range of authors.
Within Scotland, Rebecca Colquh...
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Posted on June 15 2018
Thousands of primary school pupils from P5, P6 or P7 have been rehearsing and performing an
opera about the exciting voyages of 14th century Chinese ...
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Posted on December 05 2017
In July 2016, I took part in SCILT’s week-long national languages leadership programme, which at the time was called ‘Train the Trainer&rs...
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Posted on December 05 2017
The revised national languages leadership programme welcomed its largest cohort in June 2017. Under its new name the 1+2 Languages Leadership Programm...
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Posted on December 05 2017
Family Languages event – save the date!
SCILT is delighted to be hosting a Family Languages event for young people and their families on Saturd...
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Posted on December 05 2017
On 10 November 2017, Chinese Hanban teachers from across Scotland gathered with their mentor teachers in the Technology and Innovation Centre at the U...
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Posted on June 12 2017
Scottish Languages Review and Digest #32 (Summer 2017) – out now!
This edition really is a must-read! The incidental theme emerging from all five con...
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Posted on June 12 2017
SCILT, in conjunction with Education Scotland, Scottish Government, the GTCS and ADES, is holding eight national events across the country, focusing o...
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Posted on June 12 2017
Following a wide-ranging consultation with the profession earlier this academic session, our 1+2 FAQs for practitioners have been updated and uploaded...
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Posted on March 17 2017
In order to support the implementation of the 1+2 Approach in Scottish schools, CISS has focused on developing a variety of resources for Chinese. The...
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Posted on March 17 2017
SCILT and Education Scotland's leadership programme has been revised and renamed.
Formerly known as Train the Trainer, the all-new 1+2 Languages Lead...
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Posted on December 09 2016
A key feature of each of the GTCS Professional Standards, there is a lot of talk these days about practitioner enquiry as a means of professional lear...
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Posted on December 09 2016
Partnership was the order of the day on 29 November 2016 at Atlantic Quay in Glasgow.
The day began with a presentation by Associate Professor Angela...
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Posted on June 07 2016
Language Linking, Global Thinking (LLGT) is a project that links a student on their year abroad to a class in a school in Scotland. The project has th...
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Posted on June 07 2016
Recommendation 9 of Language Learning in Scotland: A 1+2 Approach states that “language learning be recognised as an entitlement for all young people ...
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Posted on June 07 2016
Recently, the third and final event in this series of seminars took place in Victoria Quay in Edinburgh. The events brought together a variety of stak...
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Posted on June 07 2016
Train the Trainer (TTT) is an extended professional learning programme run by SCILT and Education Scotland which was accredited with “Professional rec...
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Posted on March 15 2016
Recent articles related to the implementation of the 1+2 approach to language learning, written by practitioners and development officers, feature in ...
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Posted on March 15 2016
SAVE THE DATE! Train the Trainer summer school will be taking place from Monday 27 June to Friday 1 July 2016 at the University of Strathclyde city ce...
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Posted on November 24 2015
Are you aware that in addition to our termly newsletter we also publish peer-reviewed articles in our online journal, the Scottish Languages Review? T...
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Posted on November 24 2015
Two new leaflets from SCILT will be powerful tools for language teachers, Support for Learning colleagues and senior management, and they will equip y...
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Posted on November 24 2015
Recommendation nine in Language learning in Scotland: A 1+2 Approach states that, 'language learning be recognised as an entitlement for all youn...
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