by Victoria Mitchell | Oct 6, 2017 | Features, Primary Features, Secondary Features, Student Features
Looking for ways to sustain the profile of languages post- European Day of Languages? Noelia Rivas shares her top tips to make languages more prominent in school life. Are you thinking of ways to give an extra dimension to language learning? Would you like to take...
by Victoria Mitchell | Sep 22, 2017 | Features, Secondary, Secondary Features, Student, Student Features
Guest blog by Lisa Probert, Head of Modern Foreign Languages, St Helen and St Katharine school, ALL Council member and Chair of the secondary steering group. At the start of a new school year our thoughts inevitably turn to transition. New colleagues, new classes and...
by Victoria Mitchell | Sep 20, 2017 | Features, Secondary Features, Student Features
Guest blog by Natalie Campbell, Trinity Catholic School, Nottingham. We all need to know what to do next in order to move forward. Whether you are writing a creative piece or speaking about a recent event or a future plan, a second opinion is useful. In the MFL...
by Helen Senior | Sep 15, 2017 | Features, Secondary Features, Secondary News, Student Features, Student News
What do undergraduates see as the major changes between learning a Language at school and at University? In 2017 Durham University students answered this question, reflecting on content, approaches and skills they feel are developed differently. A video compilation...
by Victoria Mitchell | Aug 31, 2017 | Features, Secondary Features
Guest post by Mrs Hilary Scholes, Department Leader for MFL, Challney High School for Girls My name is Hilary Scholes and I am Department Leader for MFL at Challney High School for Girls in Luton. I have taught French and Spanish for 12 years and have been a...
by Victoria Mitchell | Jul 19, 2017 | Features, Secondary Features
Wales has been given a slightly negative press recently in the media with stories such as ‘Teachers in Wales ‘worried’ about future of foreign languages’ and ‘Wales teacher recruitment in crisis.’ However, the picture isn’t as bleak as it...
by Victoria Mitchell | Jul 7, 2017 | Features, Primary Features, Secondary Features, Student Features
Following on from the superb article featuring John le Carré celebrating why we should learn German, and the fantastic buzz this gave to language teachers around the country, ALL wanted to join the celebration of all things German. Here we highlight why people should...
by Victoria Mitchell | Jul 5, 2017 | Features, Secondary Features
Guest writer, Ian Bauckham, CEO of Tenax Schools Trust (Bennett Memorial Diocesan School) and author of the report on the Modern Foreign Languages Pedagogy Review writes about the future for languages, using the example of Michaela Community School. What is the...
by Victoria Mitchell | Jun 21, 2017 | Features, Primary Features, Secondary Features
On Friday 16 June, The British Council issued its latest Language Trends Survey looking at the main issues currently facing language teaching in schools in England. For a summarised version, please read The British Council’s press release. To access the full report,...
by Victoria Mitchell | Apr 7, 2017 | Features, Secondary Features, Student Features
What does it mean to be a successful student in languages? What is the purpose of assessment? What does progress look like? How can progress be assessed most effectively? How do assessment practices in a department contribute/work with whole school policy? These...
by Wendy Newman | Nov 4, 2016 | Features, Secondary Features, Student Features
How does language influence culture and identity? One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the ~7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear. But what is lost when a language falls silent? People and nature blur in the...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 21, 2016 | Features, Primary Features, Secondary Features, Student Features
Languages for all – why should everyone learn a language? Learning a language boosts self esteem, improves communication, and opens doors. According to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages: Research shows that language learning has a...
