NEWS

Newsletter Re-designed

Have you seen our re-designed Newsletter?  Have you already subscribed?

If you haven’t, then you should read this item.

Season’s Greetings 2019!

Season’s Greetings from all at PPLI.

View our interactive Christmas card.

#ThinkLanguages 2019

3000 TY students from every corner of Ireland attended our flagship event #ThinkLanguages at the Convention Centre Dublin on Friday 6th December.

MFL Together Conference 2020

We are very excited to announce MFL Together, Ireland’s first Mega Conference for MFL Teaching and Learning, hosted by PPLI, JCT and PDST.

Mother Tongues Poetry Competition

Calling All Aspiring Young Poets!

Do you like to compose prose, rhyme your lines or converse in verse? Well then, write this way- we have the perfect opportunity for you!

“Come on, Pronto!”  – CoP piece from Associates

Read an article about Communities of Practice (CoP) from two of our Associates: Erica Flanagan and Laura Quigley.

Adding Languages to Work Experience: A Resource Available to Students

A Work Experience Student Activity Pack for the TY & LCA/LCVP students has been developed by Languages Connect. ‘Working with languages’ combines the world of work with the awareness of language skills during work experience.

Creating an MFL Department: how do we get started?

PPLI launched this year a suite of resources to support MFL teachers establish Modern Foreign Language departments in their schools.

Foreign Language Assistants (FLA) and Cooperating teachers (CT) support

This academic year, PPLI is offering support to the Foreign Language Assistant scheme run by the Department of Education and Skills.

FLA and Cooperating teachers support session 2 – webinar registration

Registration is now open for the webinar for the second support session for foreign language assistants and cooperating teachers.

Latest Poll now available

Have you taken part in one of our polls?  They are on every languages page (12 in total)!

Our latest poll is about Digital Technologies in the classroom.

Expressions of interest from teachers of new Leaving Certificate curricular language subjects, Polish, Portuguese, Lithuanian and Mandarin Chinese

Recruiting an Education Officer

Student Event Season – up to 50,000 students visit Languages Connect stand!

September and October were jam-packed full of student events and our team of Languages Connect ambassadors were run off their feet at the stand!

School Library Home Languages Funding Scheme

Attention School Libraries! Post-Primary Languages Ireland (PPLI) is launching a School Library Home Languages Funding Scheme available to all post-primary schools.