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ASSOCIATION FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING

Trustees' Annual Report Year ended 31 August 2021 ALL report

CONTENTS

Introduction 3
Areas requiring support 4
Structure, governance and management 7
Objectives and activities 8
ALL’s partnership events 11
Global/International Activity 14
Achievements and performance 17
Membership 18
Services to members 19
Financial review 20
Representation, partnership and influence 34
Plans for future periods 35

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INTRODUCTION

The aims of focused Association for Language Learning activity for this year 2020-21, as agreed with ALL Council, were:

To support these developments, we focused some energies on the website. Additionally, a new team was created at Management Board level: the HMO team includes the Honorary Membership Officer, the Deputy Honorary Membership Officer and a Trustee, who work with the Development Manager on specific tasks.

Throughout the Pandemic, the Association has supported language professionals through free webinars and website resources.

Our open access resources and webinars for members and non-members ensured that all language professionals i) had access to a wide CPD offer, ii) were able to develop their online language pedagogy and iii) gained a greater understanding of proposed education policy changes and were able to fully engage in these consultations. At the start of the first lockdown, language teachers needed to radically change their teaching methods for the online world but were at home, isolated from colleagues. Through our webinars, they have shared ideas and experiences in a collaborative and supportive way to feel confident in meeting the challenges of remote teaching and doing the best for their learners.

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AREAS REQUIRING SUPPORT

ECTs and Trainees: Before Summer 2020 ALL hosted 3 webinars for teacher trainees at the end of their training year, and for NQTs (now renamed ECTs ‘Early Career teachers’), volunteers and staff then worked over Summer on the NQT/ ECT/trainee areas of the website in readiness for the new academic year. We created a new document ‘ALL as your Language teaching career begins’ with pointers to resources on the website and in other ALL repositories of relevance to NQT/ECTs. This ‘Shortcut’ document was the first in a series in ongoing development which point members in different professional contexts towards specific resources, documentation, CPD or information.

Other Shortcuts are to date:

On 24th August 2020, we hosted a special webinar for new NQTs/ECTs, making a good start (with over 130 attending); part of the feedback was that they would like regular informal events with a social aspect throughout the year and ALL responded by creating ‘First Fridays’, which ran every month for the whole academic year. They were advertised through the usual ALL routes (ALLNet, the website, social media, Languages Today etc.) as well as through the ALL Initial Teacher Educators forum. The ‘First Fridays’ were hosted by ALL London, who also put on a special event for the same audience in Autumn and in Spring: Transmedia in Language Learning, and one in July: Preparing for your ECT years.

A proposed joint event between ALL and ISMLA event (live or online) for the same target audience was postponed, but we hope to return to this idea in the new year.

ALL also supports the educators and trainers of new language teachers through the active online ITET Forum, and the annual meeting in July – online in 2021. We consulted this group in respect of the DfE ITET market review in July 2021 in order to build an internal picture of developments.

Other priorities were supported through website developments. Content was generated and edited by volunteers and updates implemented by the KC Jones team. They included:

Launch of the CLIL Zone https://www.all-languages.org.uk/research-practice/clil-zone/ offered as part of ALLs information service, and in order to signpost the work of other agencies involved in this area of curriculum development.

This followed the resources launch from ELAPSE, the Erasmus+ project in which ALL had been a partner.

Speaking Endorsement: A major challenge for Language teachers in Secondary schools was in the area of external examinations: the government wished to acknowledge the loss of teaching and learning time throughout 2020 by reducing the burden of exams (without removing content). Their first proposal was to remove Speaking as a formal element of GCSE and require teachers instead to provide an Endorsement of students’ abilities to be reported alongside the GCSE grades. Teachers were encouraged to use ordinary lesson time to gauge students’ levels, based on headings and criteria provided (See Consultations below).

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In response ALL created a page in the Secondary Zone called Speaking Endorsement which recorded all of the official documents, along with records of consultations and extensive links to articles about the importance of Speaking in the process of teaching and learning a language and different ways of encouraging good habits in speaking. This page has now (August 2021) been re-structured as the Endorsement process is complete, but all content is still available at: https://www.all-languages.org.uk/secondary/speaking-endorsement/

Subsequently DfE and OFQUAL launched a consultation on GCSE Content. ALL gathered relevant information and opinion in the Secondary Zone to inform members’ responses.

https://www.all-languages.org.uk/secondary-old/features-secondary-2/

These areas supplemented the pages created last year; https://www.all-languages.org.uk/guidance-on-the-covidaware-languages-classroom/ and https://www.all-languages.org.uk/home-learning-help/, which continue to be maintained.

Website capacity: Given the ongoing expansion in the online activity of the Association in the last year, and the fact that teachers like to have access to recordings of events which they cannot attend in real time, the ALL Board agreed to fund the provision of online space to store video recordings, through a link to Vimeo . Some of these are restricted to member areas and some open to anyone.

Consultations: Examples of recordings available include several Consultation Sharing webinars (details below). In these ALL Officers and Trustees share with members (and sometimes non-members) the background and facts surrounding national consultations, clarifying what is actually being asked. In return members share their views on these matters through the Chat function. The members-only model proved effective in helping formulate a collective response to the GCSE Content Review consultation. Various responses from partner associations are also collated on the ALL website, to inform our members and others.

See https://www.all-languages.org.uk/news-events/consultations/

New Language Zones: The purpose and history of Language Zones (normally restricted to members) are described below. In order to expand the range of languages supported by the Association, and also to support teachers and learners, ALL responded to suggestions from the Arabic and the Chinese Language teaching communities to create new Zones. The content is generated and shared by volunteers and partner organisations.

https://www.all-languages.org.uk/research-practice/language-zones/chinese-language-zone/ https://www.all-languages.org.uk/research-practice/language-zones/arabic-language-zone/

These Zones are currently open to all.

New Special Interest Group: ‘Decolonise Secondary MFL Curriculum’

Following an article in Languages Today and a Language World session, which sparked much interest, the Management Board agreed a proposal to create this new SIG as part of the social and educational equity agenda.

https://www.all-languages.org.uk/about/community/special-interest-groups/de-colonising-the-curriculum/

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Consultations 2020-21

Speaking / Endorsement (outlined above) – The ALL collective response is published on the website

GCSE Content Review – This review proposed major changes to the content of the GCSE exam for French, German and Spanish and excited much discussion. A variety of documentation and several personal blogs are shared in the Secondary Zone of the website.

See also https://www.all-languages.org.uk/news-events/consultations/

The MB’s Communication Group worked closely with other language associations and stakeholders, including the APPG Modern Languages,

ALL’s President also wrote to the Department on the matter of Language Teacher Supply

The several webinars associated with these consultations served

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STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

ALL is the national association of teachers of foreign languages. It is very largely a volunteer organisation.

ALL also has Corporate members, publishers, agencies, commercial businesses or partners whose work was severely affected by the pandemic. ALL continued to support them by listing them in the magazine and including updates in ALLNet; there were some losses of members, and of advertising, because of financial circumstances and the Development Manager invested a lot of time in maintaining these relationships.

Administrative tasks are carried out by our contractor KC Jones conference&events Ltd. who employ one 0.6FTE ALL Development Manager and one 0.6 FTE Events and Membership Administrator. All administrative roles are carried out through a contract in place since August 2018.

Volunteers are drawn from the membership. They serve on the Council (which advises and makes recommendations to the Management Board), in Language Networks (which represent the major languages taught by members), in Special Interest Groups, and in local Branches, Networks and Primary Hubs. Additionally, they contribute to the Association’s practitioner magazine, Languages Today, website content and to the online Language Zones.

Successful extended Council meetings were again held in September 2020 to explore ways forward for the Association.

Elections took place as usual for new Council members from September, and a new President Elect for the academic year 2021-2022, Liz Black, was appointed.

The Management Board comprises the elected Officers of the Association: President, (President-Elect) and Honorary Membership Officer and up to six persons invited by the Board to hold a three-year tenure as trustees, renewable up to two times, subject to the unanimous approval of the Board. Beyond a period of nine years, should there be a call to renew a member’s tenure, every subsequent year’s tenure has to be agreed unanimously by the whole Board. The - appointment of a Chair and a Treasurer is made from among the invited trustees. Details are here: https://www.all languages.org.uk/about/what-is-all/who-we-are-2/

The ALL Development Manager joins the Board meetings.

The administration of the Association is based at Association for Language Learning, 1A Duffield Road, Little Eaton, Derby, DE21 5DR

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OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

Objectives

The Association is established to promote and support the learning and teaching of natural languages and to encourage an understanding of the importance of languages at all levels in our society. The Association promotes the development of languages education in the United Kingdom to support the language needs and linguistic diversity of the country and its population. It also aims to advance public understanding of the nature of language teaching.

Activities

The members of the Association are teachers of foreign languages in all sectors in the UK and other language education professionals. All of our charitable activities focus on the promotion and support of foreign languages education in the UK. The Association comprises the Management Board (as above - the trustees and officers of the Association) which meets four times each year (during the pandemic more frequently as all meetings have been held virtually), a Council (elected by the members) which meets once each year, and Special Interest Groups, including Language Networks, which operate principally through virtual meetings and discussions as necessary.

The Association supports its members (and the wider community) through:

Updates – weekly ALLNet message to members, news features on the website and through social media publications – in hard copy and digital format online.

Events - locally and nationally, in person and online, and in collaboration with partners.

The many branches, networks and primary hubs of ALL organise their own programmes. They are supported by a Handbook available from the website, and by two termly Roadshow presentations (one for Primary Hubs and one for Branches/Networks), created by the HMO Team and sent out by email to ALL Local leaders, this year using Mailchimp. They are invited to circulate them to their local members in order to keep them abreast of events. In turn a combined version of the Roadshows is developed as a webinar Conversation between the HMO Team and others; this happens termly and is open to all.

Publications

The Association publishes one major academic journal, the peer-reviewed Language Learning Journal (which is currently published on behalf of ALL six times a year by Routledge) and is a member-benefit. LLJ’s editorial team and editorial advisory board were expanded during the April 2021 Editorial meeting. It was also agreed that the Editorial Advisory Board should meet virtually twice a year. The first meeting of this Board took place in Autumn 2021.

ALL has language-specific Language Zones (which were previously journals): Deutsch Lehren und Lernen - the German Zone, Francophonie - the French Zone, Rusistika, Tuttitalia and Vida Hispanica. Since September 2012 these publications have been housed in a members’ only area of the ALL website, known as the Language Zones. Work continues on refreshing these zones: the German, French and Spanish Zones are now developed, as reported on above (Website developments).

https://www.all-languages.org.uk/research-practice/language-zones/

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Also in this area are the two new Language Zones created in 2021 – the Arabic Zone and the Chinese Language Zone (also described above).

Another related page has been re-designed this year; Practitioner Focus has been re-shaped to include sectors not otherwise visible in the website design, particularly the areas of Adult Education and of English as an Additional Language – in which foreign Language teacher members are often involved because of their awareness of linguistic development.

Also in this page are articles which cross between sectors and therefore have broad relevance.

https://www.all-languages.org.uk/research-practice/practitioner-focus/

ALL produces a members’ magazine, Languages Today, three times a year; it continues to receive excellent feedback.

A free edition from 2020 is still downloadable here: https://www.all-languages.org.uk/home-learning-help/ and we provide a digital sampler of new editions as they appear in the website shop.

From May 2019 the setting, printing and dispatch arrangements for the magazine changed provider. The arrangements continue to be very satisfactory both in terms of production quality and in terms of finance.

Articles are sought largely from members and from language professionals in specific fields, and this year have covered these major themes:

Autumn 2020 - Recycling for progression

Winter 2021 - Closing the gap

Spring 2021 - The Big Picture

Digital samplers of these magazines are available for open access in the website shop.

Where authors have more to say than can be contained in the magazine they are invited to contribute longer articles available as ‘extra content’ on the website: https://www.all-languages.org.uk/research-practice/languages-today/

In September 2019 ALL published a supplement to Languages Today, produced in collaboration with cultural and other partners, especially for Primary Schools to support their curriculum development at the moment of the launch of a new Ofsted inspection framework. This was mirrored on the website in order to be accessible to all, and the Primary Zone was also reshaped at that time. The supplement was also recommended by NAHT to all of its member Primary schools. It continues to be openly available.

The ALL website now features more dynamic contributions from members and others in the form of reports, reviews, anecdotes and blogs, as well as the more traditional articles.

The online area Learning from the Classroom , which aims to bridge the gap between classroom research and practice, continues to develop:

https://www.all-languages.org.uk/research-practice/learning-from-the-classroom/

In 2020/21, Briefings were superseded by the content of the webpages entitled

all of which generated too much content for the Briefing format.

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October 2020 26 GCSE 2021 (revised twice)
January 2021 27 DfE Consultation on Summer exams 2021
February 2021 28 Outcomes of consultation on awarding grades in Summer 2021
March 2021 29 GCSE MFL Subject Content Consultations March 2021

Continuing Professional Development / In-service training for teachers

This remains one of ALL’s core activities. The Language World conference is the centrepiece of the year’s work in this area.

The theme of ALL’s Language World Conference in 2021 , was ‘A rich curriculum for ALL’, held for the first time online at a reduced cost to delegates.

There were over 575 registrations for the online conference, arranged and hosted by KC Jones.

The burgeoning of online CPD activity reported last year has continued - in the form of webinars and online conferences organized by ALL volunteers and by ALL Corporate members.

The accessibility and flexibility of online events has seen a growth in the number of people attending events of this sort and ALL has expanded its provision to catch the mood: we have initiated four new regular events this year:

TiLT Seminars and Roadshows

ALL London was in a strong position to be able to respond quickly to teacher needs for online CPD relating to distance learning having built up experience in running webinars (these began in in 2011 using Adobe Connect) and having coordinated several annual conferences on the use of Technology in Language Learning with the support of corporate sponsors Sanako and Linguascope, and the expertise of members and independent consultants.

We also continued our online versions of the termly Roadshows created for ALL Local groups (now structured as Conversations), arranged information / consultation sessions on various proposals, and ALL local groups responded to the need of Language teachers to get together by setting up informal Lockdown Lunchtime events, webinars, Show and Tell events etc.

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ALL’S PARTNERSHIP EVENTS

ALL collaborated with the British Council and the Cultural partners in a project around the celebration of Speaking. Express Yourself in Lockdown was an online activity for learners and language speakers, of all ages, asking them to record a short oral presentation (a recitation, an anecdote etc.) which was uploaded to a YouTube channel. The celebration event ran over several weeks and encouraged schools and colleges to run their own internal events on the same theme. It culminated with a live online event hosted by the British Council.

https://www.britishcouncil.org/school-resources/languages/express-yourself-lockdown

ERASMUS+ DIPS project (Developing International Projects programme) has been given an extension, and ALL Trustee Jane Harvey is liaising with Corporate Member LFEE.

ALL also collaborated with International Newcastle and partners in the North-East of England on the 2021 Express Yourself North-East Festival of Languages, which ran for several weeks but had a Festival Week at its heart; this included recorded and live events, and activities for learners (and for families) of all ages and coved a wide range of languages.

https://expressyourselfne.com/

ALL volunteers collaborated with the Institut Français in their annual French Pop Video competition, providing judges and dissemination.

ASCL (Association of School and College Leaders) produced toolkits to support transition from Primary to Secondary schools in Languages (French, German, Spanish) with support of the ALL Primary Steering Group.

https://www.ascl.org.uk/Help-and-Advice/Primary-education/KS2-KS3-Language-Learning-Transition-Toolkit

These were subsequently expanded through an initiative of the new Chinese Language Zone volunteer group with a version for Mandarin.

ALL has been commissioned this year by the National College to create several video webinars, and has supported volunteers in developing these:

ALL volunteers also worked with Corporate member Languagenut on their Question Time event; with Sanako in promotion of a new resource as part of an international communication event, and with Teachers Talk Radio on a podcast exploring the role and contributions of Subject Associations.

https://www.ttradio.org/listenback/episode/44f1119e/the-saturday-lunch-with-tom-hopkins-burke-10-07-21

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Further collaboration

ALL has collaborated with Corporate members and others in the provision of online CPD and other support, e.g. Manchester Metropolitan University who ran three webinars under shared auspices with excellent feedback:

“Isabelle and I would like to express our gratitude to you and to the ALL for the support in delivering the INSETs on Using short films for the language classroom.

We would not have reached the number and variety of teachers and future teachers who have registered for both events without your kind and effective support in the organisation and in the assistance with the technical support.

It is amazing to see that almost 400 teachers registered from all over the world!

Participants in yesterday’s Inset were grateful for having a bespoke event for Arabic teachers as these are “very rare”. At least for the ones who have answered the post-questionnaire, it was the first time that they have attended an event organised by the ALL or by us. The feedback in the pre- and post-questionnaire of yesterday’s event demonstrates that there is a need for this type of workshop.

Some comments on what they found more interesting/useful and the impact of the workshop include the following:

I hope we can organise more events next year with your support”.

Carmen Herrero, Manchester Metropolitan University

The ALL collaborative COVID 19 response webpage has been maintained:

This signposts a range of resources and websites; ALL added to the Primary Zone this year a Primary Compendium aimed at non-specialist teachers who were being asked to deliver Language lessons when the usual teacher was not available (because of COVID re-organisation). These include online lessons, video resources, printable resources etc, curated by the Primary Steering Group.

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Events for language learners

The majority of these activities, such as Language Days, competitions and festivals, take place locally, https://www. all-languages.org.uk/about/community/local/, or are organised by language networks. They cover a range of languages and add value to our work through engaging young language learners; examples include

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GLOBAL/INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY

Overseas professional links and contacts

ALL continues its membership of the world federation of associations of language teachers, FIPLV, and in the international federations of associations of teachers of French and German, FIPF and IDV and has contributed articles for its readers around the world.

Since FIPF launched its ‘Jour du prof’ and ALL collaborates with the Institut Français (IFRU) to promote this event nationally and locally.

The Chair of Management Board is a member of the IDV’s Language Policy SIG, which has published an online guide - on language policy and agency for language associations across the globe: https://idvnetz.org/handreichungen verbandsarbeit-erfolgreich-gestalten

In 2020 ALL was approached by Francophonia, a teacher training body based in Nice which operates on a principle of solidarity with teachers of French around the world. Francophonia organises an annual Université de l’été in Nice and offered bursaries to ALL members wishing to attend. This clearly was not possible in 2020. In 2021 they renewed the invitation and also offered the possibility of teachers joining the events online, where there were health concerns.

In August 2021 a group of ALL Members took advantage of this generous offer, some attending in person to benefit from the environment and the muliti-national aspects of the event.

Erasmus+

Following successful involvement in recent Erasmus+ projects Grail, ALL is now a member of the international team developing a game called Knights of the European Grail , aimed at Secondary-aged learners, and has a historical / geographical storyline.

Progress has been affected by the pandemic and all meetings have been online to date.

How our activities deliver public benefit

ALL’s ongoing response to the Coronavirus crisis is exemplified above.

As well as Member-only resources, ALL provides many of its updates and articles in the open-access areas of the website to support the wider community of language professionals in line with a public service ethos.

and the areas of Guidance and Advice for Primary and Secondary professionals.

The new Chinese and Arabic Zones are currently open to all, to encourage members of these communities to contribute and consider joining the Association.

Feedback on the Arabic Zone launch with 60+ booked participants:

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Twitter:

“It was an amazing evening with the Arabic show and tell evening. Full of creative ideas and enthusiasm. Thank you ALL for all your hard work towards all languages. Really enjoyed every moment”. Fatima

Email

“Dear ALL

I want to say thank you so much for the amazing evening yesterday, I enjoyed it so much and I am looking forward to adding more resources on the site and share the work with the whole world. Thank you so much for giving this opportunity, this was my dream and made it realizable”. [Member]

Members (individual, group, corporate) are the direct beneficiaries of our activities but ALL events and a number of our services are open to all teachers of languages, regardless of whether they are members or not, thus providing opportunities for all language teachers to receive both information and professional development focused on their needs.

Some of the funded work we have done in the past has allowed us to develop resources and other services (often online) which are still freely available to language teachers everywhere, such as Language Futures, the ALL Literature wiki, ALL Connect CPD resources and the associated themed wikis, and all of the resources of THE LANGUAGE MAGICIAN and ELAPSE.

Some ALL local groups also provide wide support through their online work: webinars are hosted regularly by ALL London, for instance, recorded for later viewing on request and advertised on social media.

Through its activities for learners ALL also supports and promotes language teaching in the UK. This benefits not only the learners themselves but also the teaching community, in so far as these initiatives promote lifelong language learning, raise aspirations, and illustrate, for example:

The also provide additional enrichment activities upon which language teachers are able to build to enhance the progress and achievement of their students.

Dedicated pages on our website house information to support all language teachers:

News - https://www.all-languages.org.uk/news

Corporate Member News - https://www.all-languages.org.uk/news/corporate-member-news

Challenges & Competitions - https://www.all-languages.org.uk/calendar_events/challenges-and-competitions

Features - https://www.all-languages.org.uk/research-practice/languages-matters/features

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Specific public benefit is delivered through the ALL website, www.all-languages.org.uk, and other allied websites, wikis and blogs maintained by different groups and individual volunteers within ALL, or by previous ALL staff.

ALL strives to support discrete groups of teachers who may need specific support, or be isolated from the mainstream:

This support is especially important in times of continuing financial stringency, when many structures have disappeared, when teachers risk isolation (e.g., in Primary) and when there are shrinking departments in Secondary schools

As ALL’s objectives are focused entirely on languages, the Association is regularly involved in national debate and policy-making through work with Government and other bodies, making an important contribution to education and public life which has never been more in demand.

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ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE

National context

This year has been an exceptionally complex one for teachers in general and teachers of Languages in particular, given the constraints and complexities generated by the pandemic, and variations of policy with regular changes in relation to:

Developments in policy, and proposals for developments, are reflected in the ALL Briefings / website content (outlined above).

In 2020-21 these include:

Language Trends 2021 (an annual publication now provided by British Council) reported:

Teachers and pupils faced unprecedented challenges during the 2020-21 school year because of Covid-19. Headline findings in this year’s report include:

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MEMBERSHIP

Membership fees have been kept at the same rates for some years now:

https://www.all-languages.org.uk/join/become-a-member/ with special rates for trainees / ECTS, a low group rate for Primary schools and concessions.

For the launch of the new Zones this year the Board agreed that teachers of Arabic (many in the supplementary sector and unsalaried) would have access to the concessionary rate.

We also use discounts at special events to attract new members.

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SERVICES TO MEMBERS

The Language Learning Journal, which is managed by Routledge on behalf of ALL, has a small team of editors. It continues to build a high international reputation and to bring significant funds into the Association as well as helping us maintain a high reputation as a professional body. During the period of this report the number of annual editions has been increased to respond to demand for space.

ALL uses online environments to enhance the offer to members by providing up-to-the-minute information (through our website and weekly ALLNet newsletter); the website also functions as an online repository for ALL resources and background information.

ALL maintains an active social media profile with a Facebook presence and a Twitter account; messages about events, policy developments, etc. are regularly posted via social media.

The weekly ALLNet electronic bulletin is supplemented by ALLNet Extra bulletins to promote the services, work and special offers of our corporate members, or to highlight learning and teaching opportunities for students and teachers.

ALLNet lists events from ALL locally and national; an Events calendar is also maintained on the website where additional news items and statements on policies affecting language teachers are published in the News section.

Much of our direct work with members is carried out locally by ALL’s regional and local networks, led by volunteers, - who continue to be very active. https://www.all languages.org.uk/about/community/local/

Their programmes are planned and delivered independently according to local priority but ALL provides termly Roadshow presentations with suggestions of current themes or items to advertise; archived here:

In 2020-21 we updated the communications route to local volunteers by creating Mailchimp distribution accounts for the 3 groups:

These are linked to the ALL database.

ALL Local groups continue to thrive and new Local groups were created this year:

In addition, the ALL Peterborough Network has expanded its work with an active EAL Hub, exploring synergies between foreign language teaching and teaching children who learn English as an Additional Language.

As ever, members benefited from discounted fees for Language World attendance and many members and nonmembers contributed as speakers at the event.

Conference logistics were managed once again by KC Jones conference&events Ltd. on behalf of ALL.

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ASS IATION FOR LANGUAGE LEARNIN TATEMENT THE YEA F FINAN ENDED IALA TIVITIE 21 Unrestricted fund Restricted fund 2021 Total Funds 2020 Total Funds Notes INCOME AND ENDOWME￿[5 FROM Donation5 and legacies Other trading activities Investment income 88,264 92.082 66 112.033 200,297 92.082 66 91,274 101.983 258 Tot21 180,412 112,033 292,445 193,495 EXtENDttURE ON Raising funds Other 23,251 95.670 23,251 95.670 34.872 88,857 123.729 Total 118,921 61,491 118.921 NET INCOME 112.033 173,524 69.766 RECONCILIAfflON OF FUNDS Total funds brought lorward TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 189.514 30.549 219.863 150.097 251.005 142.582 395.387 219.863 23 The notes form part ofthesefinancial statement5

ASSOCIATION FOR LAKUAGE LEARNING BALAN HEE[ 21 Unrestricted fund Restricted fund 2021 Total Funds 2020 Total Funds Notes HXED ASSEts Tangible assets 53 53 1,706 CURRENT ASSEts Debtors 2,268 100 294,845 297.211 2,268 100 437.225 15.025 100 245.043 Investments Cash at barnk 142,382 142,382 Total 439.593 260.168 CREDITORS Amountsfalling due within one year 146259) 146,2591 142.0111 NET CURRENT ASS￿5 250,952 142,382 393,334 218,157 TOTAL AssEfs LESS CURREMt LIABILITIES 251,005 142,382 393.587 219.863 NEf ASSEts 251,005 142,382 393.587 219.863 FUNDS Unrestricted funds 251.005 142.582 189.514 30,549 219.863 Restricted funds 593.587 The financial slalements were approved by the Board of Trustees andauthori5ed for issueon17 March 2022 and were 51Rnedon its behalf by.. ProfessorRené KoRlbauer-Trustee The notes form part ofthese financial statement5 24

ASSOCIATION FOR LAKUAGE LEARNING TE THE FINAN THEYEA ENDED TATEME 21 I. ACCOUMll￿ F¥)LICIES Basisotpreparingthefinancialstatements The financial statements of the charity. which is 3 public benefit enlily under FRS102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP IFRS 1021 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities.. Statement of Recommended Practice applicable lo charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland IFRS 1021 lefFeclive I january 20191,, Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland, and the Charities Act 2011 The financial 51alements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. Income All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Actriities once the charity has entitlement to the funds. it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably. Expenditure Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation commilling the charity lo that expenditure. it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted lor on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where c051$ cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated lo activities on a basis consislenl with the use of resources. Tangiblefixedassets Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write ott each asset over its ¥timaled useful Taxation The charity is exempl from tax on its ch2ritableaclivilies. Fundaccounting Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objective5 al the discretion of the trustees. Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Reslrittion5 arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised lor particular restricted purposes. Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial 5tstements. Hire purchaseand leasing commitments Rentals paid under operating leases are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities on a 5traighl line basis over the period of the lease. continued... 25

ASSOCIATION FOR LAKUAGE LEARNING TE THE FINAN THEYE ENDED TATEMEW . 21 in 2. OTHER TRATh￿ ACMVMES 2021 2020 Branch income Language World Subscriptions 1,800 13.6461 93.928 92,082 14.793 4,865 82.525 101,983 3. INVESTME￿ INCOME 2021 2020 Deposit account interest 66 238 4. RAISING FUNDS Raising donations and legacies 2021 2020 Branch Expenditure Support costs 4,419 18.808 23.227 11,827 23.045 34.872 5. TRUSTEES, REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS There were no trustees, remuneration or other benefitsfor the year ended 31 August 2021 nor for the year ended 51 August 2020. Trustees'expenses Therewere notrustees. expense5 paid forthe year ended 31 August 2021 nor for the year ended 51 August 2020. 6. COMPARATIVESFOR THE STATEMENTOF FINANCIALACTIVITIES INCOME AND ENDOWMEWS FROM Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Total funds Donations and legacies Other trading activitie5 Investment income 91.274 101.983 258 91.274 101.983 258 Total 193.495 193.495 EXPENDtruRE ON Raising funds 34.872 34.872 continued... 26

ASSOCIATION FOR LAKUAGE LEARNING TE THE FINAN THEYEA ENDED TATEMEW . 21 in 6. COMPARATIVESFOR THE STATEMENTOF FINANCIALACTIVITIES- continued Unrestricted funds Restricted fund5 Total funds Other 88.857 88.857 Total 123,729 123.729 NEtINCOME 69.766 69.766 RECONCILIAfflON OF FUNDS Totsl funds brought fomard 119.748 50.349 150,097 TOTAL FUNDS 189.514 50.349 219.863 CARRIED FORWARD 7. TANGIBLE RXED ASS￿5 Fixtures and fittings COS[ At I September 2020 and 31 August 2021 42.935 DEPRECIAMON At I September 2020 Charge for year At 31 August 2021 41.229 1.655 42,882 NET BOOK VALUE At 31 August 2021 At 31 August 2020 53 1.706 continued... 27

ASSOCIATION FOR LAKUAGE LEARNING TE THE FINAN THEYEA ENDED TATEMEW . 21 in 8. DEBTORS. AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR 2021 2020 Trade debtors VAT 2.020 14.483 542 2.268 15.025 9. CURRENT ASSET INVESTMENTS 2021 2020 Shares in group undertakings 100 100 10. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR 2021 2020 Trade creditors Other creditors 810 45.449 1,288 40.725 42,011 46,259 11. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS At 1.9.20 Net movement in funds At 51.8.21 Unrestr￿ed funds General fund 189,514 61,491 251,005 Restricted functs Margaret Truss Fund Language Futures japanese Emab35sy Grant japanese Emabassy Grant- additional funding KAI CLIL Courses Erasmus KA2 21.150 245 21.150 245 5,033 5,035 3,945 5,945 105,836 8.197 103.836 8.197 30,549 219.863 112.033 175,524 142.582 TOTAL FUNDS 393.387 continued... 28

ASSOCIATION FOR LAKUAGE LEARNING 11. MOVEMENTIN FUNDS- continued Net movement in funds. included inthe above are asfollows Incoming resources Resources expernded Movement in funds Unrestricted funds General fund Restricted funds KAI CLIL Courses Erasmus KA2 180.412 -118,921 61,491 105,836 8.197 112.055 292.445 103.836 8.197 112.055 175,524 TOTAL FUNDS -118,921 Comparatives for movement in funds At 1.9 20 Net movement In fund5 At 31.8.21 unreStr￿ted funds General fund 119.748 69.766 189.514 Restricted funds Margaret Truss Fund Language Futures japanese Emabassy Grant japanese Emabassy Grant- additional funding 21,130 243 5,033 21,130 243 5,033 3.945 3.945 30.549 150,097 30.549 219,863 TOTAL FUNDS 69.766 Comparative net movement in fvnds. included in the al)oveare as follows.. Incoming resources Resources expended Movement in funds Unrestricted funds General fund 193.495 -123.729 -125.729 69.766 69.766 TOTAL FUNDS 193.495 Comparative net movement in fund5, included in the above are asfollows continued... 29

ASSOCIATION FOR LAKUAGE LEARNING 11. MOVEME￿ IN FUNDS- continued A current year12 months and prior year12 months combined p051tion is asfollows". At 1.9.19 Net movement In funds At 51.8.21 Unrestricted funds Gernera1￿rnd 119,748 131,257 251,005 Restricted funds Margaret Truss Fund Language Futures japanese Emaba55y Grant japanese Emabassy Grant- additional fundinR KAI CLIL Courses Erasmus 21,130 245 5,033 21.130 245 5,033 3,943 3,943 103,836 8,197 142.382 393.387 103,836 8,197 112.033 50.349 150.097 TOTAL FUNDS 245,290 A current year12 months and prior year12 months combined net movement in fund5. included in the above are a5 follows". Incoming resources Resources expended Movement in funds Unrestricted funds General fund 373,907 1242.6501 131,257 Restricted funds KAI CLIL Courses Erasmus KA2 103.836 8.197 112.055 105,836 8.197 112.035 TOTAL FUNDS 485,940 1242,6501 245,290 continued... 30

ASSOCIATION FOR LAKUAGE LEARNING 12. RELATED PARTYDISCLOSURES Therewere no related party transactions fortheyear ended 31 August 2021 31

ASSOCIATION FOR LAKUAGE LEARNING DETAILED TATEME￿[ THE YEA ENDED FHNAN IALA T2 21 VME 2021 2020 INCOME AND ENOOWMENTS t)onations and legacies Grants and donations 200.297 91,274 Other trading activities Branch income 1,800 13.646) 93.928 14.793 4.865 82.525 Language World Subscription5 92.082 101.983 Investment income Deposit account interest Totsl incoming resources 66 292,445 238 193,495 EXPENDITURE Raising donations and legacies Branch Expenditure Other trading activities Bank interest Other External staff costs 4.419 11,827 24 67.000 28.670 95,670 Purchases 23,746 88,857 Support costs Finance Bank charges 2,174 2,296 Infom)ation techrKAogy IT Software & Consumables 6,311 6,062 Human resources Sundries 350 Other Insurance Carried forward 2,004 2,004 2,244 2,244 This page does not fomi part ofthe stalulorythnanciJ statements 32

ASSOCIATION FOR LAKUAGE LEARNING DETAILED TATEMENT THE YEA ENDED F FINAN IALA 21 VITIE 2021 2020 Other Brought forward Postage and stationery Depreciation of tangible fixed assets 2,004 445 1,655 4,102 2,244 3.486 1,655 7,383 Other 2 Advertising Govemance costs 263 1,094 Accountancy and legal fees Total resources expended Net income 5,628 118.921 175,524 6,210 123.729 69.766 This page does not form part of the slalutory financial statement5 33

REPRESENTATION, PARTNERSHIP AND INFLUENCE

ALL has been represented by officers, trustees or other expert members on panels and groups where languages education is discussed, bringing the voice of teachers into these debates; ALL representation will continue largely through volunteers and through the ALL Development Manager.

Groups range from those convened by government, to advisory panels for other bodies in languages education (e.g. publishers, examination boards and awarding bodies, Language Alliance), to expert groups convened by other agencies (e.g. CfSA).

ALL has over forty key partners with whom it works on a regular basis. They encompass all educational sectors and include UK and EU governmental and non-governmental bodies, foreign embassies and cultural institutes, other professional and subject associations in the UK and abroad, private companies and others. During the period covered by this report ALL has continued to benefit from its relationship with IFRU (the Institut français in the UK), the GoetheInstitut in London, the Consejeria de Educacion, British Council, the DAAD, the Austrian Cultural Forum and new cultural partners contacted in the development of the new Zones.

ALL continues to have close relationships with

During the report period ALL volunteers has been working collaboratively with several international partners on the design and delivery of resources for the Erasmus+ project: Knights of the European Grail.

This project centres on the creation of an online game, aimed at secondary-aged students, in a variety of European Languages. The game is based in the Middle Ages in several European countries and will include Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality elements as an innovative approach.

The profile of the Association continues to be high, as measured by references from other bodies, and in perception of the Association’s activity in the mind of members and the broader community of Language professionals.

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PLANS FOR FUTURE PERIODS

The Association’s medium-term strategy is to keep under review the structure established in August 2018 with a view to creating additional paid roles as we see that finances become increasingly more stable.

The Board, with advice from ALL Council and Editors, will keep its overview of Language Learning Journal, and has no plans for reforming Languages Today magazine as it presently operates, beyond seeking further advertising revenue, without detriment to the editorial content, in order to continue to build its economic viability.

Language World 2022 sees a return to an in-person conference and is in planning with the title: Language Learning for Social Justice. Volunteers are planning a workshop online for prospective speakers on writing their submissions.

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