The Community Languages Bulletin contains information and articles on language teaching and research of interest to all those in the field.

• Issue 25, Autumn 2009
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Issue 24, Summer 2009 (pdf, 3.4mb)

• Latest news from the Our Languages project
• Bengali as the primary languages entitlement
• A night in the library
• International partnerships: Opportunities through the British Council
• Community languages provision in Tower Hamlets
• Statistics: Languages spoken in the UK
• Managing employment-based routes into teaching
• Refugees into Teaching...the story continues
• Teacher training and development: Developing professional skills
• Intercultural skills: New National Occupational Standards
• Supporting community language teaching at 14-19.

Issue 23, Autumn 2008 (pdf, 1.38MB)

• Developing Practice for the 21st century
• Szacunek/Meas in Armagh
• Turkish in the primary curriculum
• Teach a Friend a Language (TAFAL) 2008
• Our languages - where we are now
• Partnerships for success
• The Our Languages database of schools
• Focus on ... Regions
• New languages and diversity module: Early Years and Primary PGCE
• Supplementary school teacher aspirations
• Focus on ... Interpreting and translation
• Focus on ... Qualifications

Issue 22, Spring 2008 (pdf, 1.18MB)

• Language, identity and learning in complementary schools
• Practical ideas for the primary languages classroom
• Bringing maintained and complementary schools together through Our Languages
• Community languages provision in Southampton, Hampshire and Portsmouth
• Languages Sheffield supporting community languages
• Qualify to teach community languages
• Every Language Matters
• The school-based mentor role - working with PGCE Mandarin trainees
• The Community and Lesser-Taught Languages (COLT) project: an introduction
• Employers need community languages
• London businesses using community languages

Issue 21, Autumn 2007 (pdf)

• Sharing dialogue - Developing 21st Century practice
• Tamil Primary Language and Family Learning Project
• Accessing support for primary language teaching
• Talk To Your Baby
• School puts spotlight on Somali
• Teacher training and development … Goldsmiths sets benchmark for PGCE in Community Languages
• Qualify to teach community languages
• Community Languages in higher education
• Panjabi at the Modern Language Centre, King’s College London
• Progressing with languages

Issue 20, Summer 2007 (pdf)

• Positively plurilingual
• Using Asset Languages qualifications with adult learners at the Brasshouse Language Centre
• National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education | Caribbean languages and literature
• Supporting Portuguese-speaking pupils in Lambeth primary schools
• Language and identity in community language schools
• New Primary Languages website | We have the technology
• PGCE courses in community languages 2007/8
• Modern Languages extension course opportunities
• Can early GCSE entry in community languages impact positively on students' academic achievement? | Using the Curriculum guides
• Animated Rama and Sita at the Shireland City Learning Centre

Issue 19, Autumn 2006 (pdf)

• German Saturday schools in the UK
• The Year of African Languages 
• School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
• Somali in Sheffield
• Tu parles français? Moi aussi
• Graduate Teacher Programme
• More languages on 26 September 

• Multilingual Month project is an example to all 
• Qualify to teach community languages
• The Key Stage 2 Framework for Languages 

• Asset Languages rewards primary school pupils with skills in Panjabi
• NACELL Regional Support Groups
• Junior European Language Portfolio
• Curriculum guides for community languages

Issue 18, Summer 2006 (pdf)

• Research and statistics: Community languages in the 21st century
• The National Languages Strategy: An update on the Languages Ladder
• Asset Languages: Supporting community languages learning 
• Southampton primary school takes a lead in teaching KS2 community languages
• Language investigation in Coventry primary schools
• Training support for teaching assistants in the primary classroom
• Managing plurilingualism: A report on the VALEUR project | Multilingual City Forum Language Exchange Evenings
• Teacher training and development
• Qualifying to teach Panjabi: Flexible PGCE route
• CILT Register of Specialists
• North Westminster Community School visit Oman

Issue 17, Autumn 2005 (pdf)

• Community languages in the press
• Community languages in secondary schools
• Strong community languages showing European Award
• Astronomers and zoo-keepers say 'hello' to language benefits
• Multilingual Europe: A seminar series at Goldsmiths College
• Languages ICT website
• Bollywood comes to Smethwick!

Issue 16, Summer 2005 (pdf)

• Community languages in the press
• The European Award for Languages
• Languages spoken by the UK population
• Focus on Specialist Language Colleges
• Qualify to teach community languages
• Pilot training project for supplementary schools in Brent
• Working with learners of community languages
• National Community Interpreting Project
• Multilingual Britain: Implications for MFL teaching in secondary schools

Issue 15, Autumn 2004 (pdf)

• Community languages in the press
• Book review
• Early language learning – cornerstone of the National Languages Strategy
• Focus on Specialist Language Colleges
• Trainee teacher profile
• Sign of the times
• Launch of Sheffield Languages Strategy – Burngreave Language Support Agency (BLSA)
• Building confidence through drama
• The INCA Project

Issue 14, Summer 2004 (pdf)

• Community languages in the press | Valuing all languages in Europe
• Scheme of work for mother tongue teaching for pupils aged 5–11
• Complementary schools and their communities in Leicester
• The Languages Ladder – Steps to success
• Focus on Language Colleges
• Focus on Qualified Teacher Status
• Hampstead School – a governor's perspective
• Pupils from families with little or no English – access to the school Year 7 Maths curriculum
• Integrating the four skills in the early stages of teaching Chinese

Issue 13, Autumn 2003 (pdf)

• Community languages in the press
• European Award for Languages
• Complementary schools and their communities in Leicester
• Community languages and British Sign Language best practice
• Researching languages in Liverpool
• British Airways' Arabic Taster Day
• Using the word processor to support the drafting and redrafting process: An example in Arabic
• GCSE and A level statistics

Issue 12, Summer 2003 (pdf)

• Community languages in the press
• Book review
• CILT UK
• Interpreting, translation and the National Centre for Languages
• The Panjabi Language Challenge and parents’ evening, Valentines High School, Essex
• Guidelines for providers working in partnership with community-based language schools
• Focus on PGCE trainees’ experience
• Early biliteracy – a positive advantage
• Complementary schools and their communities in Leicester
• Speak up for languages!

Issue 11, Autumn 2002 (pdf)

• Community languages in the press: ‘Drop French, say Heads, and teach Urdu instead’
• CILT UK
• Year 9 pupils teach at the University of Birmingham
• North Kensington supplementary schools
• PGCE Urdu at Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Ormskirk | PGCE Turkish at Middlesex University | Routes to Qualified Teacher Status: training while you work
• Talking books
• It takes two to TAFAL
• Visiting the CILT library

Issue 10, Spring 2002 (pdf)

• Community languages in the press | The Green Paper
• Book review
• A PGCE in Turkish - community driven
• The European Language Portfolio
• Early mother-tongue learning in Tower Hamlets Education
• Qualify to teach community languages!
• Community languages at BECTA
• Managing support for the attainment of pupils from minority ethnic groups
• Woodbridge High School
• Entitlement to languages: a Scottish perspective

Issue 9, Autumn 2001 (pdf)

• Community languages in the press
• Colloquial Turkish | Face to face
• Numeracy in the multilingual classroom
• Inspecting modern foreign languages with guidance on self-evaluation
• Reaction to the DfEE response to the Nuffield Report
• Community languages in the secondary curriculum
• Using ICT to support community languages
• Goldsmiths College Community Languages Initiative
• Multilingualism in action
• European Award for Languages