The Ministry of Education provided ILEA with a grant to take the principles of financial literacy and create activities for the language classroom based on those principles. Unit plans have been created along with sample activity descriptions and rubrics for culminating tasks. Activity description handouts have also been translated/interpreted into French, Spanish, German, Arabic and Simplified Mandarin.  These are available here [...]

ILEA is the ONTARIO voice on the CLA (Canadian Languages Association) and has been communicating with Senator Mobina Jaffer on developing a multilingual vision for Canada.  We hope to provide you more information on this initiative in 2012.  In the meanwhile, have a look at the document that is the focus of our work and you will [...]

ILEA’s Presentation in Barcelona is being featured again! Our Executive Director’s interview at LINGUAMON in Barcelona is on the website again. Check out Linguamon’s website for information on the future opening of the new building for their “House of Languages.” The province of Catalunya has been looking at Ontario’s model for international languages in order [...]

ILEA Newsletter: Accents on Language! – Spring 2010 (Contains 1 attachments.)

The Weekend School… A child’s experience in an International Language Program in storybook format. (Contains 1 attachments.)

ILEA is now on YouTube!  More clips to come in the future – our channel name is:  ileaontario ILEA’s youtube channel

National Language and Cultural Expo was held on October 2-3, 2010 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  This was the first Language and Culture Expo in Toronto and it welcomed many language learners, teachers, linguists, translators, businesses, and everyone from the general public interested in language and culture education and services.  ILEA had a booth and was [...]

ILEA’s Executive Director presented in many places within Canada but also worldwide over the last year!  Stockholm, Sao Paolo, Boston, Rome, Barcelona.  Constantine was a plenary speaker for the Managing Multilingualism conference headed by Linguamon of Barcelona, Spain – visit his post convention interview on the Linguamon website. Constantine Ioannou, ILEA’s Executive Director in an [...]