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Modern Languages Symposium

2 and 3 December, 2011

Language, Migration and Diaspora

Committee for Modern Language, Literary and Cultural Studies of
the Royal Irish Academy

School of Languages, Dublin Institute of Technology Scoil na dTeangacha, Institiúd Teicneolaíochta Átha Cliath

For more details please see: http://ditlanguagesconferences.blogspot.com/

The National Languages Strategy

National Language Strategy Cover Professor Aine Hyland launched the National Languages Strategy, by the RIA Committee for Modern Language, Literary and Cultural Studies, at 1pm on Wednesday 5 October 2011 at Academy House.

Download the the National Languages Strategy here

Download the Executivie Summary here

The National Languages Strategy provides an overview of the position of languages in education in Ireland today, outlines the challenges facing Ireland in its development as a multilingual society and makes recommendations, in relation to language education and more broadly, which seek to meet these challenges and enhance Ireland’s position within an increasingly multilingual global economy.

The National Languages Strategy is aimed primarily at policy decision-makers at national, local and institutional levels across Ireland. It seeks to encourage these key stakeholders to collaborate in the development of a coherent and integrated national policy for languages in education. This policy would ideally put in place a clear and consistent framework for the provision of language education at each level within the education system (primary, post-primary and third levels).