© fiplv executive committee member cecilia odé, [email protected], graz, ecml, 29-30 september 2006 1

© FIPLV Executive Committee member Cecilia Odé, [email protected], www.fiplv.orgGraz, ECML, 29-30 September 2006

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FIPLV Mission Statement A global network of support

for language professionals

FIPLV exists for the worldwide support, development and promotion of languages through professional associations

We are active in over 100 countries and cover several hundred thousand teachers of languages worldwide


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Our membership • international unilingual associations such as FIPF (French),

IATEFL and LATEUM (English), IDV (German), ILEI (Esperanto), MAPRYAL (Russian) and SIPLE (Portuguese)

• national multilingual associations such as AFMLTA (Australia), ALL (UK), ANILS (Italy), ASEC (Bulgaria), FUPL (Uruguay), ITE (Ireland), GMF (Germany), KMF (Czech Republic), LALT (Latvia), LMS (Norway), LMS (Sweden), MANYE (Hungary), MLAA (USA), MLAN (Nigeria), MLTASL (Sri Lanka), NZALT (New Zealand), PTN (Poland), RALMLT (Russia), SAALT (South Africa), STIL (Iceland), SUKOL (Finland), VLLT (Netherlands)

• FIPLV Regions, bringing together local members of international unilingual and national multilingual associations


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What we do

• contribute to the professional development of language teachers

• collect and disseminate the latest international research to our member associations

• campaign on issues of concern - e.g. language policy, multilingualism, class sizes, less commonly taught languages


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• enable professional associations of language teachers worldwide to learn from each other

• represent language teachers internationally through their national and international associations

• represent UNESCO, where requested, on Linguapax, language policy, language rights, multilingualism, endangered languages and related matters


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What we believe• languages enhance both individual and national potential

• there is no single global recipe for good language teaching

• we can all learn from each other

• ideas are for sharing and information should be a ‘free good’

• all languages and their speakers deserve equal respect

• language diversity is essential to the human heritage

• each and every language embodies the unique cultural wisdom of a people

• the loss of a language is a loss for all humanity


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What we want in future is to

• impact more significantly on individual teachers

• foster and increase links between associations of language teachers

• help our colleagues in countries where working conditions leave a great deal to be desired

• create links with international humanitarian, industrial and business communities


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If your business involves languages, we have something to talk about


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FIPLV and Multilingualism


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FIPLV World CongressesPapers on multilingualism at

• FIPLV 2006 – a multilingual (7 languages) world congress organized by FIPLV and LMS Sweden in Göteborg, attracting almost 800 participants from 40 countries

• FIPLV 2003 – a multilingual world congress organized by FIPLV and SAALT South Africa in Johannesburg in South Africa, attracting 400 participants from 30 countries


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Multilingualism in FIPLV Publications and Presentations

• publications and presentations by FIPLV President Denis Cunningham on linguistic diversity at many conferences and in various journals and proceedings (e.g. reports to UNESCO)

• monographs published by FIPLV:

- Cunningham, Ingram & Sumbuk (2006), Language Diversity in the Pacific: Endangerment and Survival. Clevedon, Multilingual Matters


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- Cunningham & Hatoss (2005), An International Perspective on Language Policies, Proficiencies and Practices. Belgrave, FIPLV

- Cunningham, Freudenstein & Odé (2006), Languages Teaching: A Worldwide Perspective – Celebrating 75 Years of FIPLV, Belgrave, FIPLV

ask me for order forms for these two publications!


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• a multilingual approach in editing FIPLV World News (last five issues since 2004: articles in English, French, German, Portuguese and Russian)


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FIPLV Meetings

• participants use the language of their choice

• participants present written materials for discussion in the language of their choice

(if necessary, translations are provided)


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FIPLV and Endangered Languages from the FIPLV Mission Statement:

• all languages and their speakers deserve equal respect

• language diversity is essential to the human heritage

• each and every language embodies the unique cultural wisdom of a people

• the loss of a language is a loss for all humanity


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FIPLV publications and presentations on endangered languages

• in FIPLV World News:

- articles on endangered languages

- “language classrooms of the world” on minority languages teaching


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“The very motivated Tundra Yukagir children learn their mother tongue in school from a very young age on from local native teachers who literally make all courseware with their own hands, because there is no courseware, there is also no money. Their devotion and enthusiasm commands deep respect. At home the language is hardly spoken anymore, and parents, including the language teachers, blamed themselves for not passing the mother tongue on to their children. We are guilty ourselves, tells the headmaster of the secondary school, we should have understood that the language is doomed to disappear if we do not work hard for its revitalization.” (Odé in World News 64)


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• at conferences: e.g. presentations by FIPLV members on endangered languages

• in journals: e.g. scientific publications by FIPLV members

• in other publications: e.g. in Cunningham, Freudenstein & Odé (2006), Languages Teaching: A Worldwide Perspective – Celebrating 75 Years of FIPLV, Belgrave, FIPLV


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FIPLV and UNESCO

• FIPLV contribution to the UNESCO policy paper on languages, Education in a Multilingual World, UNESCO, Paris 2003

• FIPLV contribution to Words and World: World Languages Review, Etxea/Clevedon, Multilingual Matters, UNESCO, Bilbao 2005

more information on FIPLV and UNESCO in Cunningham, Freudenstein & Odé (2006), Languages Teaching: A Worldwide Perspective – Celebrating 75 Years of FIPLV, Belgrave, FIPLV


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FIPLV and Linguapax

• In 1987, during a UNESCO meeting on languages teaching in Kiev, FIPLV Secretary General, György Szépe, participated in the creation of Linguapax: “Foreign Languages and Literatures for Peace and International Understanding”

• Since 1987, Linguapax Meetings were held all over the world, in many of which FIPLV was actively involved (e.g. Linguapax IX, X, Barcelona 2002 and 2004)

• FIPLV is also involved in establishing the International Linguapax Network


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(from www.linguapax.org)

The Linguapax Institute aims to:

• Promote information and research about language policies

• Assist the language policy makers of state or regional governments

• Foster multilingual education and the improvement of learning methods

• Connect multilingual education with the culture of peace

• Offer technical assistance to minority or minoritized communities


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• Defend linguistic rights as human and collective rights

• Facilitate the management of language diversity in cities with different community languages

• Contribute to the presence of multilingualism in cyberspace

• Create new mechanisms of collaboration between specialized NGOs


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FIPLV and Multilingualism: some perspectives

• meeting at the FIPLV/LMS World Congress in Göteborg, Sweden 2006, on multilingualism:

a discussion on strategies to promote multilingualism and how FIPLV will actively participate in this area

• follow-up of a successful panel discussion at the FIPLV/LMS World Congress in Göteborg, Sweden 2006, on concerns of Language Teachers Associations

• FIPLV participation in the AILA 2008 World Congress on “MULTILINGUALISM, Challenges and Opportunities” (www.aila2008.org)

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