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June 2009

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European Network will develop new approaches for RMl education
group of people attending the ENTTI meetingFor the preparation of a European Network of Teacher Training Institutes a group of teacher trainers met for the second time in Ljouwert / Leeuwarden. Goal of the meeting, organised by the Mercator Research Centre on 2 - 4 June 2009, was aiming at the strengthening of multilingual education. Participants from Estonia, the Basque Country, Catalonia, Sweden, Finland and Wales came together with their Frisian colleagues.

They visited a couple of primary schools and discussed the key elements for the future Network: improving the relationship of theory and practice; blended learning and the use of ict; content and language integrated learning (Clil); new research issues such as the testing of reading skills, the acquisition of mother-tongue and second language simultaneously and at an early age.    


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New Regional dossier: Latgalian in Latvia
The Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning has recently published a new Regional dossier: the Latgalian language in education in Latvia. The dossier has been written by Heiko F. Marten, Ilga Šuplinska and Sanita Lazdiņa. The dossier on Latgalian is the 38th regional dossier that has been published. The new editor of the Regional dossiers series, Tjallien Kalsbeek, aims to publish about 10 dossiers this year. For instance Albanian in Italy, Serbian in Hungary and an update on Swedish in Finland.

The Regional dossier on Latgalian in Latvia was presented to the authors Heiko F. Marten, Ilga Šuplinska and Sanita Lazdiņa at the ICML conference in Estonia (May 28th), by the project coordinator of the Mercator Research Centre, Cor van der Meer.
 
You can find an overview of the Regional dossiers series here on the website of the Mercator Research Centre. Here you can also download dossiers or order printed versions.

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