by Clodagh Cooney | Oct 28, 2018 | Language Futures, Project News
The Click, Connect, Learn fund is funded by Nesta and was launched in order to explore how digital technology could work to make volunteer tutoring more accessible. In 2017, Language Futures was announced as one of three organisations to receive a grant to model,...
by Clodagh Cooney | Jun 18, 2018 | Language Futures, News
Language Futures is an exciting, highly personalised and innovative approach to languages teaching and learning which aims to broaden languages provision. It has been designed to foster deep learner engagement and enable students to take responsibility for their own...
by Clodagh Cooney | Jun 1, 2018 | Language Futures, News
Since 2013, Nesta and the Cabinet Office have been working together to increase the availability of volunteer-led tutoring within schools in order to improve the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils. To this end, the Click, Connect, Learn fund was launched...
by Clodagh Cooney | May 24, 2018 | ALL News, Language Futures, News, Project News, Secondary News, Student News
Language Futures is a highly personalised, innovative and creative approach to language teaching and learning suitable for both primary and secondary schools. It has been designed to foster deep learner engagement and enable pupils to take responsibility for their own...
by Clodagh Cooney | Jan 17, 2018 | Language Futures, News
Since 2013, Nesta and the Cabinet Office have been working together to increase the availability of volunteer-led tutoring within schools in order to improve the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils. To this end, the Click, Connect, Learn fund was launched...
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 Helen Senior | Nov 30, 2017 | Language Futures, News, Primary News, Secondary News, Student News
“As we learn to adapt to a shifting international landscape, a new approach to developing our young people as competent linguists could prove crucial.” Following the DfE’s English Baccalaureate (EBacc) consultation, the government’s revised target is for...
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 24, 2017 | Language Futures
Words: Victoria Mitchell, ALL Before October half term, I had the opportunity to deliver training for the Language Futures initiative as part of a school’s INSET day. Sir Edmund Hillary Primary School in Worksop, Nottinghamshire were keen to get underway with the...
by Clodagh Cooney | Nov 21, 2017 | Language Futures, Primary, Primary Features, Secondary, Secondary Features
Project-Based Learning (PBL) is when students design, plan and carry out an extended project that produces an output, such as a product, publication or presentation. Ideally, these outputs are exhibited to an external audience which can be a powerful motivator for...
by Clodagh Cooney | Nov 20, 2017 | Language Futures, Primary, Primary Features, Secondary, Secondary Features
The most recent Language Trends Survey speaks about the importance of offering pupils the opportunity to engage with native speakers and of providing a model of authentic language and culture. However, due to financial pressures, many schools are no longer able to...
by Clodagh Cooney | Sep 27, 2017 | Language Futures, Primary News, Secondary News
Since 2013, Nesta and the Cabinet Office have been working together to increase the availability of volunteer-led tutoring within schools, in order to improve the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils. In order to explore how digital technology could work to...