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QUICK LINKS:   Student Competition 2010   Eunice Beveridge Memorial Prize  Student Competition 2009  Vocabulary Olympics  Certificates of Excellence

Events 2010

Click here to see a calendar of NZALT related events for 2010. Please get in touch with the webmaster if you wish to add any language events to this calendar.

Awards for Members : Excellence in Teaching Languages Award & Life Membership Award

NZALT makes available two awards for members : Excellence in Teaching Languages Award and Life Membership Award.

For further information and a nomination form click here

Student Competition 2010 : NZALT/Language Perfect "Design a Pen"

This year's competition was to design a slogan that promotes your language.

The results were announced at Conference in Queenstown. Click here to view the winning results.

The winning design in each category will be produced as pens and will be available later in the year for purchase by members.

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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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Student Competition 2009 : Design a Languages Banner

Click here to see the winning entries from last year's student competition.

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NZALT  - Language Perfect Vocabulary Olympics 9-22 August 2010

NZALT is once again sponsoring the certificates for this year's Vocabulary Olympics in August this year.  Registrations open on 1 July.

Keep up-to-date on the Vocabulary Olympics' website: www.vocabolympics.com/site/home.html
For further information click here

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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. Applications for the certificate are to be directed to the local Regional Officer. The deadline for applications to be in is the end of term 1.

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

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

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

5. Applications must state:
     a.  candidate's name (correctly spelt)
     b.  language learned;
     c.  school attended;
     d.  evidence of achievement;
     e.  name(s) and position(s) of teacher(s) making application;
     f.   the citation which will be written on the certificate.

6. 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:
    four Excellences for Level 1
or
    three Excellences for Level 2 / Level 3

 


  To apply for Certificates of Excellence for your students, click here to download a request form. Please forward it to your Regional Officer by the end of term 1. We then send the certificates to the printers for delivery by the end of Term 2.

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