Jill Fernando, British Dyslexia Association How can we respond to the needs of learners who are dyslexic, multilingual or both? This article aims to highlight some of the difficulties faced by dyslexic and/or multilingual learners and then suggests some approaches...
Anthony Lodge, Emeritus Professor of French (St. Andrews University) In staff common-room discussions about those parts of French grammar which cause the most difficulty for English-speaking learners, attention swiftly focusses on past participal agreements and on the...
Kathy Wicksteed, Association for Language Learning Council member and coordinator of FLAME Mysterious ways I can’t remember when I first became interested in CLIL,[ref]It is difficult to choose vocabulary to refer to the teaching of non-language subject content...
Martine Pillette (Moulton, Northamptonshire) THE GRAMMAR AGENDA In the days of O level (GCE Ordinary level was introduced in Britain in 1951) communication was not at the heart of the MFL agenda. The emphasis was much more on linguistic competence than on performance....
Christine O’Leary (Sheffield Hallam University) INTRODUCTION L’utilisation du tableau numérique intéractif (TNI) doit tenir compte de l’évolution des pratiques pédagogiques, en particulier l’approche actionnelle. Celle-ci exige une méthodologie active centrée sur ...
Sandrine Aguerre (Université de Bordeaux 3), Bill Alder (Open University), Tita Beaven (Open University) INTRODUCTION Tele-collaboration is now a well-established practice in language learning and teaching and usually involves ‘learners in parallel language classes...
Anne Preston, Paul Seedhouse, Patrick Olivier, Daniel Jackson, Phil Heslop, Jürgen Wagner, Thomas Ploetz and Saandia Ali (University of Newcastle) This article reports on the French Digital Kitchen, a French language learning project developed by human-computer...
Wendy Adeniji, Kings Science Academy (Bradford) ‘When I was learning to be a language teacher […] I became aware that I was learning to […] teach what I call “phonic blobs”. Groups of phonemes that meant nothing to anyone who had never been to France, met a French...
Karen Turner and Kate Cruise, Maura Gordon, Becky Lipsey, Ellen Paige, Philippa Rae (Former full-time PGCE students, Institute of Education, University of London) Government policy underpinning the languages initiative in English primary schools (DfES 2005) has three...
Jonathan Tyrens (The Grammar School at Leeds) Commenting in the educational supplement of The Independent on the climate of language learning in Britain in 2004 Susan Bassnett wrote that ‘languages are in crisis [….] and part of the problem may be the mainly...
Image: Huw Meredith Photography Peter Downes, ‘Discovering Languages’ Project Director, Association of School and College Leaders REVIEWING THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM As many readers will know, a root-and-branch review of the national curriculum is now under way. As...
Photo: Huw Meredith Photography Kate Norman, Jack Hunt School, Peterborough With the widening of participation and the growth of confidence in the Key Stage 2 languages classroom which we have seen slowly – and in many cases painfully- over the last few years, Key...