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Online Professional Learning
Online Professional Learning
CASLT is pleased to announce its next Online Professional Learning (OPL)session on December 11, 2019, with Michelle de Abreu. This one-hour session available for free to CASLT members will be on CASLT’s newest resources, Success for All series, aimed at supporting additional language learners.
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Call for Proposals: Celebrating Languages Without Borders 2020
Call for Proposals: CLWB 2020CASLT and BCATML invite you to submit a proposal for the Celebrating Languages Without Borders (CLWB) 2020, Canada’s premier professional development conference for second language teachers. Be a presenter and share your high-impact strategies, current research, and innovative ideas with language educators from across Canada and beyond. Submission deadline: January 31, 2020.
Consult the Call for Proposal webpage to learn more.
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“Languages Build…” Video Contest
“Languages Build…” Video Contest
What impact has learning English or French as a second/additional language had in your life? Create a video (3 minutes max.) to share your story or thoughts and run a chance to win amazing prizes. Submission deadline: March 31, 2020.
Consult the “Languages Build…” Video Contest Web page to learn more.
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Neurolinguistic Approach: Training Course in Quebec
Neurolinguistic Approach: Training Course in Quebec
The International Centre for Training and Research in the Neurolingusitic Approach and Neuroeducation will offer a training course on the Neurolinguistic Approach (ANL1) from 16 to 20 December 2019 in Québec City.
Consult the Neurolinguistic Approach (NLA) webpage to learn more.
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Success for All Series
New CASLT Publication
Success for All Series
The Success for All series is a collection of resources intended to guide teachers and school administrators in finding and applying strategies and best practices for making language education accessible to all types of learners. These first four volumes address challenges teachers and administrators face in supporting additional language learners. CASLT intends to produce additional volumes to address challenges teachers face in helping students with exceptionalities succeed in language learning.
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Aboriginal Languages Gathering
Aboriginal Languages Gathering Website
CASLT values the teaching and revitalization of indigenous languages and their contribution to Canada’s plurilingualism. We are delighted to present the Aboriginal Languages Gathering (ALG) website, CASLT’s online centre for pedagogies and resources for educators and communities striving to teach and revitalize indigenous languages.
Our hope is that this website will evolve into a comprehensive resource centre for indigenous language teaching and learning. If you have a resource that can contribute to this objective, do not hesitate to reach out to us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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“Languages Build…” Toolkit
“Languages Build…” Toolkit
As part of the “Languages Build…” campaign, CASLT has developed an advocacy toolkit to raise awareness of numerous benefits of language learning. The tools in the kit are arranged by the eight impacts identified in the Literature Review on the Impact of Second-Language Learning, and they will be posted as the campaign unfolds. Please join us in advocating for language learning by using and sharing these tools within your network.
Visit the Languages Build Advocacy Toolkit Web page to find the advocacy tools and learn how to use them.
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Why Learn Languages? Languages Build...
Why Learn Languages? Languages Build…
Research shows that second-language learning is beneficial on many levels. But to what extent?
Visit our Why Learn Languages? tab and learn how languages build brains, academic performance, personality, societies, cultural competencies, economies and plurilingualism. Furthermore, learn how language learning is for all, read research-based articles on the impact of second-language learning and explore a variety of resources for teachers, parents, students, schools, school administrators and second language stakeholders.
