by Wendy Newman | Aug 18, 2015 | ALL News, News
The headlines At A Level, results continue to be stable overall, with A* grades unchanged from last year at 8.2%, A*-A down slightly at 25.9%, and A*-E up slightly at 98.1%. The number of A Levels taken has risen by 2.0% compared to 2014, total entries for...
by Wendy Newman | Jul 30, 2015 | Languages Today, Languages Today extended content
Sarah Campbell, UK Linguistics Olympiad Why? Those of us who have made our careers working with languages are likely to have done so, at least in part, because we actively want to; because we love language learning, are intrigued by unusual words, fascinated by...
by Wendy Newman | Jul 29, 2015 | Russian Zone
A selection of events across the country this summer, from or about Russia and her neighbours… 22 Jul – 21 Oct 2015: Three Days in the Country (based on Ivan Turgenev’s passionate, moving comedy, A Month in the Country) at the National Theatre, London 29 Jul – 01 Aug...
by Wendy Newman | Jul 23, 2015 | ALL News, Arabic News, Italian News, Japanese News, Language News, Mandarin news, News, Portuguese news, Russian news, World languages news
Exam boards choose not to redevelop GCSE and A level exams in small-entry languages With the introduction of new GCSE and A level specifications for languages from 2016 (for French, German and Spanish – 2017 for other languages) – some exam boards have announced their...
by Wendy Newman | Jul 23, 2015 | Italian Practice, Italian Zone
Dr. Enrico Bertelli (University of York) 1 PRESENTATION OF ITALIAN FOR MUSICIANS The didactic application of music and songs in foreign language education boasts a long and interesting history; the use of ‘sound records’ inside the classroom appears as early as 1936...
