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QUICK LINKS:   NZALT Teacher Awards  Conferences & LangSem  Student Competitions  Eunice Beveridge Memorial Prize  Language Perfect World Championships 2013  
Certificates of Excellence  International Languages Week

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Awards for Members : Excellence in Teaching Languages, Leadership in Languages& Membership Award

NZALT makes available two awards for members : Excellence in Teaching Languages Award , The Peter and Eunice Beveridge Award for Outstanding Leadership in Languages and Life Membership Award.

For further information and a nomination form click here

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Our Conferences and LangSems

NZALT holds an annual Conference every second year and LangSems(Language Seminars) in each region every other year.

Conference years are even numbered years and LangSems are odd numbered years.

To find out about our next Conference click here.

To find out when and where our next LangSem is click here.

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Student Competitions

2013 :

Check back mid-April for further details.

2012 : NZALT/Language Perfect Short Advertising Film

2012's competition was to produce a short film advertising a product or service, real or imaginary in the language that entrants are studying.
To see the winning videos click here.

2011 : NZALT/Language Perfect Design a Badge

2011's competition was to design a BADGE that celebrates your language.
To order badges from 2011's competition click here.

2010 : Design a Pen

Click here to see the winning entries from previous student competitions.

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Eunice Beveridge Memorial Prize for French and Japanese

This is awarded in conjunction with the NZALT Student Competition each year.

For further information click here

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Language Perfect World Championships

20- 30 May 2013

  • NZALT/Langauge Perfect World Championships 2012 on TVNZ News
    See video.

  • NZALT/Language Perfect World Championships 2012 hit the media!
    Read the article from Te Waha Nui(AUT journal) about the Championships.

  • Peter Garrett, Federal Minister for School Education, Early Childhood & Youth in Australia encourages people to participate in the upcoming Language Perfect World Championships.
    See video.

Now is a good time to register and:

Prizes:
For the first time in 2013 students in your school will be competing for the chance to win the NZALT Award for the top NZALT school!
Plus we are VERY excited to confirm that NZIIU will again offer Gold Award students from New Zealand the chance to apply for a $4000.00 Overseas Language Learning Scholarship!
Click here for full details.
All this is in addition to the MASSIVE list of prizes we already have on offer!
Click here for full details.
Who's involved?
We are PUMPED to be involving high profile people and associations to help lift the profile of Languages Education in your school!
The Department of Education, Training and Employment in Queensland as well as the European Commission in the UK have joined NZALT as Official Partners for this year's competition!
Click here to view the full list.
Check out this list to see which schools participated in the competition in 2012 - why not lay down a challenge to a school near you?
If you haven't already done so, you still have time to secure 50 FREE ENTRIES (worth $250.00 per school) for the World Championships when you register with our code: NZALT.

How to register in 30 seconds:

1. Follow this link.

2. Click Register my school!

3. Select "I am a Teacher"

4. Enter your details

5. Press Submit

Language Perfect will reply with details on how to proceed.

Learn, Compete, Win. Let the Championships begin!

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NZALT Certificate of Excellence

Rationale

To recognise exceptional achievement in a field of second language learning, NZALT will provide certificates, suitably endorsed, for NZALT members to award to their students.

Guidelines

1. Eligibility : a student is eligible to receive a Certificate of Excellence if s/he has gained, in a language in any one year, at least:
at NCEA Levels 1 and 2
14 or more credits at Excellence level, and at least 3 credits at Excellence from externally and 3 credits at Excellence from internally assessed standards.
(The same requirements as NZQA's Course Endorsement at Excellence level)
or    
at NCEA Level 3
three Excellences
or    
Cambridge International Examinations
A or A*
or    
International Baccalaureate (IB)
Standard Level grade 7 or Language B Higher Level grade 6 or 7.

2. Applications must state:
     a.  candidate's name (correctly spelt)
     b.  language learned and which examination / level;
     c.  school attended;
     d.  name(s) of teacher(s) making application;
     e.  name of school principal;
     f.  NZALT region of the school.

3. Certificates are for students in Years 11 to 13.

  
4. These certificates are intended to recognise the achievement of second-language learners only.

5. The student's teacher must be a current member of NZALT.

6. Applications for the certificate are to be downloaded by clicking here     for a spreadsheet. (or you can also use the spreadsheet your Regional Officer sent you.)

7. Please rename the file with your school name and e-mail it to Philippa Doig at philippa.doig@xtra.co.nz by the deadline of Tuesday 12 February 2013.
   We then send the details to the printers for the certificates to be printed and delivered before the start of Term 2.(at the latest)
   

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