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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Dear colleagues, this may well be only of interest to European (particularly UK) university lecturers, but I thought it worth publicizing. This country (Great Britain) needs a drastic change in its attitude to foreign language acquisition; fewer and fewer high school pupils study a language, and it is increasingly easy for them to avoid it altogether after the age of 14. This helps explain why almost every language department in almost every British university has spent the past two weeks -- high school results were announced two weeks ago -- begging for students to sign up for their language degrees. Source: <http://www.cilt.org.uk/edl/index.htm>. _______________________________________ European Day of Languages Speak up for languages! 26 September is the European Day of Languages It will be a day - for encouraging people of all ages to start learning a new language - to take part in events celebrating learning and speaking other languages - to focus on the benefits that language learning brings The European Day of Languages has been established as an annual event, as a result of the enthusiasm with which it was celebrated during 2001, the European Year of Languages, and the need to continue to develop language capability across Europe. If you have any enquiries about the European Day of Languages, or anything you would like to tell us about the promotion of languages, please e-mail us on: [log in to unmask] ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html