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Language Assertiveness Training

IAITH is looking forward to starting to pilot a new course on language assertiveness with Mudiad Meithrin as part of the LISTEN project.

The LISTEN project is piloting a training programme that helps speakers of regional and minority languages express themselves in their own language while feeling calm and self-assured.

The training will offer strategies when people are unsure whether their counterparts speak the same language.
This methodology will be supported by reading material, videos, and resources.
The main outcome of the LISTEN project will be the development of a methodology for adapting the concept of 'language confidence' to specific situations and developing courses for speakers of minority languages.

For further details contact post@iaith.cymru

https://www.iaith.cymru/uploads/general-uploads/Hyfforddiant_Pendantrwydd.pdf

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(Added on 22/03/2021)

Networking Works

The LLECHI, GLO a CHEFN GWLAD partnership invites you to a webinar on Thursday morning, 25 February (11.00 – 12.00 am) to celebrate the first year of this innovative project. The new leaders themselves will introduce you to their work locally and highlight the exciting cross-fertilisation that has resulted from their collaboration. And to question them on the detail of their work we have the journalist Dylan Iorwerth.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iJn_fkSxSZeM6B5HdlE29A

For help or further details contact post@iaith.cymru

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(Added on 12/02/2021)

Publication of IAITH study on childcare and early education

The Welsh Government has published IAITH’s study of beliefs, behaviours and barriers affecting parental decisions regarding childcare and early education. The study focuses on a sample of parents who were not accessing government-funded early education or childcare.

The report is available here:https://gov.wales/parent-beliefs-behaviours-and-barriers-childcare-and-early-education

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(Added on 15/01/2021)

Placemaking as if a thriving Welsh language mattered

Placemaking is the Welsh Government’s way of realising the Wellbeing of Future Generation goals through the planning system. At the “Eisteddfod Amgen” (the virtual Eisteddfod) in August Owain Wyn, BURUM and Dr Kathryn Jones, Cwmni IAITH presented a webinar looking at land use planning in Wales from the perspective of “a Wales ...with a thriving Welsh language”, and in particular, the Government’s target of realising a million Welsh speakers by 2050. This article by Owain summarises that presentation and discusses from an interdisciplinary perspective what planners can and should do to strengthen Placemaking's contribution to the national effort.

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(Added on 04/12/2020)

Launch of Listen website

The Listen project on language assertiveness has launched a new multilingual website https://listen-europe.eu/

The website gathers project information and news, as well as providing a platform for future project developments.

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(Added on 25/11/2020)

Welsh:proposals for the manifestos of Welsh political parties.

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Welsh Government has set an ambitious policy framework for Welsh with its Cymraeg 2050 document (Welsh Government: 2017). The document has received widespread support from a large number of members from all parties of the Welsh Parliament. However, despite this, and the goodwill towards Welsh across Wales, Welsh continues to face significant challenges.

Below, we outline some ideas that Welsh political parties could consider when drawing up their manifestos for the proposed national election.

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(Added on 13/10/2020)

Placemaking…as if a thriving Welsh language mattered

The Placemaking principle is Welsh Government’s way of realising the Wellbeing of Future Generations’ goals through the planning system.

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(Added on 23/07/2020)

Launching An Innovative Educational Methodology for Inclusion through Minority Languages

IAITH is pleased to announce that The Methodological Guide for Inclusion in Centres with Plurilingual Programs has now been finalised and is now available to download. http://innolang.eu/wp-content/pdf/Guia-Innolang-download.pdf

Targeting pupils in the first years of secondary education, this project promotes minority language learning and provides a holistic approach to developing the linguistic, social and cultural skills for migrant and refugee pupils and pupils with additional learning needs. This innovative methodology is the fruit of a two-year collaboration between Acció Cultural del País Valencià, IAITH, ELEN, Dublin City University and Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche via the EU funded Erasmus+ programme.