Our Purpose
Welcome to the Language Teachers Association of Zambia’s (LATAZ) official website. LATAZ is a teacher association established to create personal and Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) for language and literacy teachers in order to promote quality language and literacy teaching and learning.
The Language Teachers’ Association of Zambia – LATAZ is a teacher association established as English Teachers’s Association of Zambia (ETAZ) on 20th August 1976 by British expatriate English language teachers. Its defining aim then was to provide a forum for the discussion of aspects of teaching the English language’ and ‘to stimulate and promote research into English language studies.’ The first national Chairman of ETAZ was a renowned material writer, Brian Tomlinson and the first National Secretary was Mervyn Ogle. Over the years, the association has expanded its scope to include aspects of teaching local and other international languages taught in Zambian schools. It was thus renamed the Language Teachers’ Association of Zambia on 7th July 2009. LATAZ operates and has representation in all 116 districts in the country and collaborates closely with the Directorate of Standards, Assessment and Evaluation of the Ministry of Education. It is run by a national executive committee headed by the president and has regional and district committees across the country that implement its programmes. With the broadened mandate, the association’s mission is to help language and literacy teachers connect, collaborate and develop professionally through support systems
What We Do
Our mission is to Connect, Develop and Support language and literacy teaching professionals countrywide. We provide a variety of teacher and pupil activities to members and the wider language and literacy teaching and learning community. You can join as an individual or institutional member by completing this form. If you are an entrepreneur or business organisation wishing to reach our over 20,000 teaching community or over 100,000 pupils countrywide, advertise with us and grow your clientele.
Current Project
We are delighted to announce that we have been selected to be part of the PRELIM 3 project and will be working in partnership with Hilderstone College to create locally focused resources for the English language classroom. The project which began on January 2 023 will run up to May 2024.
PRELIM – the Partnered Remote Language Improvement project – is a joint initiative from the @BritishCouncil, @IATEFL and @EnglishUK.
We also provide links to international opportunities through our partnership with the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), Africa ELTA, the Hornby Education Trust Alumni Network, the English UK Partnered Remote Language Improvement (PRELIM) Project and many more.
