Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania the 10^th International Conference

LANGUAGES ACROSS SCHOOLS, CULTURES, BORDERS:

CREATIVITY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SOCIAL INCLUSION

26-27 September, 2016
Vilnius

Organizers:

• Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania
• Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences
• Public Service Language Teaching Centre

Objectives:

1. To bring Lithuanian and foreign language teaching professionals, project managers, policy makers and businessmen together for a discussion about the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of different language teaching/learning in a changing world.
2. To boost synergy and cooperation among schools and the world of employment while sharing best practices and experiences, exchanging information and knowledge across national boundaries on the enhancement of creativity, entrepreneurship and social inclusion of university students and adults.
3. To disseminate best practices and experiences of Lithuanian teachers as well as of language teaching professionals from abroad in language teaching at all levels in all stages of life.

Assoc. Prof. dr. Roma Kriaučiūnienė is the Director of the Institute of Foreign Languages of Vilnius University.

She graduated in the English Language philology from the University of Vilnius in 1985 and she has been teaching at Vilnius University since 1989. In 2004-2008 she was a doctoral student at Klaipėda University (Lithuania) and in 2009 was awarded a doctor‘s degree in Social Sciences (Education) (07 S).

May 22 – 23, 2015, LACS Workshop took place at the ECML in Graz in a very friendly and stimulating atmosphere with 17 participants representing the UK, Iceland, Canada, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Chroatia, Ireland, Netherlands and Malta.

Sarah Breslin

Executive Director

The ECML is pleased to announce the official launch of the Call for proposals for the next ECML Programme 2016-2019 „Languages at the Heart of Learning“. The Call was developed in close collaboration with experts and stakeholders in ECML member states and truly reflects current priorities in language education across our member states.

Please consult the dedicated Call website: http://call.ecml.at/  for further details. The deadline for submissions to the Call is 1 May 2015.

On the 3rd of December, 2014,  Language Teachers‘ Association  of Lithuania president Eglė Šleinotienė, vice-president Irena Navickienė, and vice-president Ilona Antanina Rinkevičienė took part in the annual event “Challenges and Success Stories of Teachers‘ Associations” organized by the Ministry of Education and Science and Education Development Centre.