We are dedicated professionals from all areas of language education and intercultural communication worldwide.

We promote excellence in the teaching and learning of languages by

• defining professional standards for teachers and learners

• recognizing quality and best practice across a wide range of educational environments

• disseminating these standards and practice to the widest possible public

By improving professional standards and teacher training in language education and intercultural competence more people achieve the higher level of communication skills that they need in our globalized, multilingual world.

The University of Westminster is co-ordinating a project bid for funding under the Erasmus+ call and is looking for a partner, preferably from eastern Europe or Scandinavia.

The project is called MedIC and is a three year project designed to produce training materials to improve intercultural communication in health settings - primarily in hospitals and mainly focussing on improving patient experience. The project will comprise a needs analysis, curriculum framework design, teaching and assessment materials production, the design of a VLE to provide a blended solution to training and a series of training courses both to train health professionals and to train future trainers of such courses. In response to the requirements of the Erasmus+ call for proposals we are looking for a partner with experience in specific purpose materials design, intercultural training experience and a connection to health practitioners.

If you have this set of expertise and are interested in joining an innovative project, please contact Rob Williams at Westminster This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

If you think you know of any institution that could be interested, could you also please let us know.

Conference Announcement 2014

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The edited volume of the 20th ICC Annual Conference 2013, “Language Identity and Culture in language education”, is now available.

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The overall theme “Language Identity and Culture in Language Education” focusses on one of the fundamental debates within the world of languages and language education. Contributors to this publication were invited to address the following questions: