by Victoria Mitchell | Jan 24, 2018 | Features, News, Primary Features, Primary News, Secondary Features, Secondary News, Student Features, Student News
Are you a French teacher? A teacher of other subjects in French? A trainer? A language leader or coordinator? A French language assistant ? A student teacher ? A head of school or language department? Becoming a member on IFprofs is FREE and will help you: 1) Find...
by Victoria Mitchell | Jan 19, 2018 | Features, Primary Features, Secondary Features
Guest blog post by Jane Harvey, ALL President Elect News and Events – keeping you updated I’ve been having a good look at what there is under the News and Events tab on the ALL website – and very worthwhile it was. I started with Consultations. Influencing...
by Victoria Mitchell | Jan 17, 2018 | Features, Primary Features, Secondary Features, Student Features
Guest blog by Peter Downes The recent British Council publication ‘Languages for the Future’ spells out clearly the challenge facing the MFL fraternity in the UK. MFL are fading in both the secondary and HE sectors at precisely the time when we are going to need more...
by Clodagh Cooney | Dec 11, 2017 | Features, Language Futures, Secondary, Secondary Features
Language Futures is an exciting, highly personalised and innovative approach to languages teaching and learning. It has been designed to foster deep learner engagement and enable students to take responsibility for their own learning, which they are encouraged to...
by Victoria Mitchell | Dec 8, 2017 | Features, Secondary Features, Student Features
Guest blog by Laura Simons, Second in Languages Faculty, Dylan Thomas Community School, Swansea, ALL Council Member and South Wales Network Lead Being a learner of many languages over the years has meant that I have often looked for ways to memorise vocabulary. In...
by Victoria Mitchell | Nov 29, 2017 | Features, Language Futures, Primary, Primary Features, Secondary, Secondary Features, Student, Student Features
Words: Clodagh Cooney, ALL Council Member, Language Futures Project Manager, Nottingham Primary Hub What is independence in language learning and how can it be encouraged? In Languages Today issue 22 on Learner Independence, Terry Lamb (Professor of Languages and...
by Victoria Mitchell | Nov 15, 2017 | Features, News, Primary Features, Primary News, Secondary Features
Words: Nicky Mcintosh, Learning Team Leader, Culture Coventry ‘What can you see in this picture?’ ‘Can you find the words in your dictionary?’ ‘What is she thinking?’ ‘Portrait of Miss Ashwanden in Cookham’ by Stanley Spencer...
by Victoria Mitchell | Nov 15, 2017 | Features, Primary Features, Student Features
Guest blog by primary language teacher and consultant and ALL Council member Clare Seccombe. Languages became a compulsory part of the Key Stage 2 curriculum in September 2014, and, since then, many schools have made great strides in their work. However, this is not...
by Victoria Mitchell | Nov 1, 2017 | Features, Secondary Features, Student Features
Guest Blog by Crista Hazell (Head of Department and ALL Council member) How to get more from the homework you set? What specific activities can be given as homework which will be effective? Homework or out of school learning, gets a bad reputation. I’ve always seen...
by Victoria Mitchell | Oct 6, 2017 | Features, Primary Features, Secondary Features, Student Features
Looking for ways to sustain the profile of languages post- European Day of Languages? Noelia Rivas shares her top tips to make languages more prominent in school life. Are you thinking of ways to give an extra dimension to language learning? Would you like to take...
by Victoria Mitchell | Sep 22, 2017 | Features, Secondary, Secondary Features, Student, Student Features
Guest blog by Lisa Probert, Head of Modern Foreign Languages, St Helen and St Katharine school, ALL Council member and Chair of the secondary steering group. At the start of a new school year our thoughts inevitably turn to transition. New colleagues, new classes and...
by Victoria Mitchell | Sep 20, 2017 | Features, Primary Features, Student Features
Guest blog by Lisa Stevens, primary language teacher and ALL Council member. There are several reasons why you might want to combine PE and languages. Firstly, the primary curriculum is rich in content and there are so many interesting and exciting subjects that we...