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1. Records description The 70 documents contained in this box relate to the work of Council of Europe s Committee of Ministers, Council for Cultural Cooperation and the Division for Out-of-School Education. This collection of papers deals with the following topics: aims, achievements and perspectives of the Modern Languages Projects of the Council of Europe; influence of the work of the Council of Europe on language teaching across Europe. 2. Keywords Belgium communication Finland language teaching multilingualism Netherlands Norway Spain Switzerland testing Threshold Level 3. Topics Aims, achievements and perspectives of the Modern Languages Projects of the Council of Europe Influence of the work of the Council of Europe on language teaching across Europe 4. Time periods 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 2
5. Events Events Venue Date Meeting of Experts on Teacher Training Not mentioned 10-11 September 1980 Conseil de l'europe/unesco réunion Inter Secrétariat Strasbourg, France 26 October 1981 Conference "Accross the threshold towards a multilingual Europe - Vivre le multilinguisme européen" Curriculum Workshop (Goethe-Institut Singapore) Strasbourg, France 23-26 February 1982 Singapore, Republic of Singapore 30 August - 3 September 1982 2nd Meeting of the Project Group Strasbourg, France 8-10 November 1983 Meeting of the Project Group No. 12 Strasbourg, France 7-9 November 1984 Meeting of the Project Group No. 12 Strasbourg, France 7-8 November 1985 Atelier 3: "Approaches communicatives, interactivité et nouvelles technologies" Sevres, France 21-25 April 1986 Workshop 8 Wolfenbüttel, 22-27 September 1986 Federal Republic of Germany TESOL Convention Miami, FL, USA 21-25 April 1987 55th Session of the Council for Cultural Cooperation (23rd Session as a Steering Committee) Strasbourg, France 24-27 January 1989 Meeting of the Council of Europe convened for the presentation of programmes 1 and 24 of "Viaje al Española" Madrid, Spain 10-11 April 1989 84th Session of the Committee of Ministers Strasbourg, France 5 May 1989 1st Meeting of the Coordinating Group Strasbourg, France 13-15 June 1989 6. Council of Europe committee and council involved Council of Europe, Committee of Ministers Council of Europe, Council for Cultural Cooperation Council of Europe, Division for Out-of-School Education 3
7. Associations, institutions and organisations quoted AUPELF British Department of Education and Science Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Centre international d'etudes Pédagogiques (C.I.E.P.) CILT Der Bundesminister für Bildung und Wissenschaft Finnish National Board of General Education Goethe Institute Singapore Hessisches Institut für Lehrerfortbildung Ministerie van Onderwijs Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia Norwegian Royal Ministry of Cultural and Scientific Affairs Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, Instituut voor toegepaste taalkunde en computerlinguistiek Schweizerische Konferenz der kantonalen Erziehungsdirektoren Stichting voor de Leerplanontwikkeling Television Española Unesco University of Lancaster Université de Genève, Facultédes lettres University of London Institute of Education UTC, Division du Développement Général de la Personnalité 8. Experts quoted Candlin Christopher Coste Daniel Courtillon Janine Dumont Michel Edelhoff Christoph Funk Hermann Girard Denis Groot P. Harrison A. Hirsch Michael Lyytikäinen Vesa Mogensen Birgit Müller Lothar Narcy Jean Paul Neuner Gerhard Nyhamar Olav Page Brian Petro Rauha Porcher Louis Rasmussen T.K. Richterich René Roulet Eddy Salin Sven Salter M. V. Stocks Gé Trim J. L. M. Ulijn J.M., Meijers A.J.A. Uriz Martin Ana van Ek Jan Widdowson Henry G. Widmer Aldo 4
9. Document types Appendix Book Conclusions Declaration Extract Journal Letter Notes Paper Proposal Recommendation Report Suggestions Summary Test 10. Document reference numbers CC-GP 12 (85) 14 CC-GP 4 (81) 23 CC-LANF (89) 3 CDCC (82) Misc. 10 CDCC (88) 33 Extract CDCC (89) 1 CDCC (89) Misc I 5