by cristahazell | Jan 20, 2023 | French Network, French Resources, German Network, German resources, Language News, News, Other Event, Primary, Primary events, Primary News, Primary Resources, Secondary, Secondary events, Secondary News, Secondary Resources, Spanish Network, Spanish resources
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by cristahazell | Mar 11, 2022 | German Discussions, German Network, German News, German updates, German Zone, Language News, News, Primary, Primary News, Secondary, Secondary News
The German Teacher Award has opened again for nominations for 2022! If you know a truly outstanding German language teacher at your primary or secondary school – make sure that their dedication and excellence get the recognition they deserve! The Embassy of the...
by cristahazell | Mar 11, 2022 | Language News, News, Online Event, Practitioner Focus, Primary, Primary News, Secondary, Secondary News
Dyslexia and language teaching A new course from Futurelearn runs from 25th of April – 22nd of May 2022. This exciting course is offered by Lancaster University in cooperation with FutureLearn and takes place over four weeks entirely online. It is aimed at teachers of...
by cristahazell | Jan 28, 2021 | News, Primary Reviews, Secondary Reviews, What's New
The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book Alex Bellos Guardian Faber, 2020, 416pp, £14.99 978-1-783-35218-0 When ALL was asked to review this book, my interest was immediately sparked. Having always been interested in the development of languages and an avid puzzle solver, I...
by charlottelr | Jan 20, 2021 | ALL Event, ALL News, Celebration, Competitions, Corporate Member News, French Zone, German Zone, Language News, News, Primary, Primary News, Secondary, Secondary News, Spanish Zone, What's New
We all know that Speaking a language confidently and coherently is an important thing, and forms a critical part of linguistic and cultural development for all learners of languages. One of the impacts of COVID-19 has meant that many pupils have had fewer...
by cristahazell | Jan 13, 2021 | News, Primary, Primary News, Secondary, Secondary News, What's New
With remote education becoming the norm for many learners across most phases, Ofsted released guidance on ‘What’s working well in remote education’ on January 11th. The guidance which defines ‘remote education’, seeks to end some...
by cristahazell | Sep 23, 2020 | News, Other Event, Primary, Secondary News, World languages event
Our colleagues at SCILT have collated a wealth of ideas for Primary and Secondary schools as well as parents and families to join in the languages fun safely. For more details see here: https://scilt.org.uk/EuropeanDayofLanguages/tabid/5390/Default.aspx The rest of...
by cristahazell | Jul 1, 2020 | Corporate Member News, Language News, News, Primary, Primary News, Secondary News, Wales
A new approach to language learning in Wales. The importance of celebrating and underlining the strength of home languages for many of our multilingual pupils. Pupils in Wales already have the opportunity of a bilingual foundation at nursery and primary level. Close...
by cristahazell | Jun 19, 2020 | Action research, Discussion Area, Events, Language News, News, Primary, Secondary, Secondary News, What's New
Teaching and Learning Languages in Primary Schools: Putting Research into Practice. A new MOOC (free online course). A team of researchers at the Universities of Southampton, Essex and Reading have developed a free online course, open to anyone, to encourage...
by cristahazell | Jun 19, 2020 | Arabic events, Competitions, French events, German events, Italian events, Japanese events, Language News, Mandarin events, News, Portuguese events, Primary, Primary events, Russian events, Secondary, Secondary events, Spanish events, What's New, World languages events
This year’s Routes into Languages East Mother Tongue Other Tongue poetry competition is now open. It is aimed at encouraging school students whose first language wasn’t English to share their Mother Tongue by remembering or creating poetry written in their...
by cristahazell | Jun 15, 2020 | News, Primary, Spanish news, Spanish Zone
Help parents of bilingual Spanish children keep their Spanish skills tip top with ideas for reinforcement and continued learning at home with bilingual films, audiobooks, sing-a-longs as well as streaming services with this article from Parents.com read more here:...
by charlottelr | May 25, 2020 | Primary, Uncategorized
June 2020 Putting Research into Practice: New MOOC (free online course) Teaching and Learning Languages in Primary Schools: Putting Research into Practice https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/teaching-languages-in-primary-schools-putting-research-into-practice/1 If...