CILT Advisory Group on Community Languages
CILT has established an Advisory Group on Community Languages. Membership of the group covers teachers, training providers and policy-oriented bodies (such as QCA).The group's main concerns are:
- promoting community languages in schools and colleges, among governors and parents, and in the community; positive images of community languages;
- access to information about suitable teaching materials, in the absence of any major interest from the mainstream publishers of teaching materials;
- adequate provision of nationally recognised examinations in these languages;
- teacher training, both initial and in-service, and accreditation for training undertaken; also career development for teachers of community languages;
- professional updating - how to keep in touch with new developments in the field;
- the need for statistical information on the number of speakers of these languages;
- the extent to which the problems encountered by community languages teachers are the same as those encountered by teachers of the 'big four' languages.
