by cristahazell | Jan 15, 2022 | ALL News, Language News, News
The Government believes that focusing on key ‘building blocks’ will build students’ confidence and motivation, but some teachers fear that cultural topics and themes could be squeezed from the curriculum. The school curriculum for French, German and Spanish is to be...
by cristahazell | Jan 14, 2022 | Language News, News
Teachers criticise DfE decision, saying narrow focus on grammar and vocabulary will put students off. The government is to push ahead with controversial changes to languages teaching in schools, which would see pupils in England memorising lists of 1,700 words...
by cristahazell | Jan 14, 2022 | ALL News, Language News, News
The Association for Language Learning released a statement in response to the DfE GCSE MFL Subject Content Review. You can read the full statement here: Response to DfE GCSE MFL Subject Content Review announcement.
by cristahazell | Jan 2, 2022 | News
In March 2020, as the Covid pandemic took hold, the language learning app Duolingo reported double its usual number of sign-ups. Stuck inside under lockdown orders, people had time on their hands and were looking for ways to occupy it. It wasn’t long before I joined...
by cristahazell | Dec 30, 2021 | News
Researchers in Japan used magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of secondary school students during a task focused on musical observation. They found that students trained to play music from a young age exhibited certain kinds of brain activity more strongly...
by cristahazell | Dec 30, 2021 | News
Interest in anime, gaming and K-pop is fuelling a boom in Korean and Japanese university degrees that is helping to revive modern languages departments struggling with falling enrolments. Acceptances to study Korean more than trebled from 50 to 175 between 2012 and...
