Sharing the NCLE Vision of Principled Practice Introduction We asked UCL IOE’s Honorary Professor Bernardette Holmes MBE, Director of the National Consortium for Languages Education (NCLE) and the Language Hubs to choose 10 principles with examples to describe...
Hawkins joins Trim in the ODNB The contribution of Eric Hawkins to the development of our profession has been recognised by his inclusion in the online Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB). alongside other distinguished educators, including his friend and...
ALL Sixth Form Lectures in Bristol 2024 – Report by Thomas Weidner, interim chair of the West of England Branch Committee The ALL Sixth Form Lectures in Bristol has been a very popular event in the annual agenda of the ALL’s West of England Branch through the years....
New GCSE, new curriculum design? Wendy Adeniji was previously a secondary school principal, and is now an MFL consultant and trainer and co-author of the book Tried and tested: the ultimate guide to teaching primary languages (2022). Helen Myers’ scrupulously...
Impact is our stock-in-trade at The Language Learning Journal (LLJ). Assessing the impact of factor X or intervention Y is the purpose of research; defining what ‘impact’ is in a given context and working out how to assess it reliably is its major challenge. As...
The impact of the residential course Isabelle Jones, ALL Council Last summer, I had the opportunity to go on a CLIL course in Málaga, 22-29 July 2023. The course was offered exclusively to ALL members, funded by Erasmus+, organised by LFEE and facilitated by a very...
Languages Local to You 2023: Reflections on a schools’ project celebrating and making visible linguistic diversity in the UK Katy Humberstone, Francesco Goglia, Liz Black, and Joshua Taylor. Following a successful edition in 2022, the Languages Local to You project...
Who are we accountable to? Steven Fawkes (ALL Trustee and Volunteer) The pressures on educational establishments to behave like businesses, and the associated concept of accountability, have grown enormously over recent times. They have created demands on teachers’...
Teaching and Learning Impact through Curriculum choice Stewart Dearsley, Curriculum Advisor for MFL IB programmes are delivered in 150 countries worldwide in international, independent and grammar schools. All programmes are underpinned by central elements of...
Best Ten tips for classroom management Managing the classroom is about more than behaviour, although that is important. Here are some suggestions about engagement, spontaneous speaking, lesson start, building sentences, mistakes and interaction. Elaine Bocking: Whole...
Judith Rifeser … in conversation with … Steven Fawkes Judith Rifeser is President Elect of ALL Steven Fawkes is a Fellow, Trustee and Volunteer for ALL Making space (i) for talking in the languages classroom (ii) in the cellar Judith Rifeser’s interview with Steven...
How to … include all languages, and enrich your school’s culture and success ‘Languages are a gateway, a window we see the world through. And from a house with multiple windows, the view outside is simply more glorious’ Sharmaine Benkaddour-de Graaf (1). According to...