by Victoria Mitchell | Dec 8, 2017 | Features, Secondary Features, Student Features
Guest blog by Laura Simons, Second in Languages Faculty, Dylan Thomas Community School, Swansea, ALL Council Member and South Wales Network Lead Being a learner of many languages over the years has meant that I have often looked for ways to memorise vocabulary. In...
by Victoria Mitchell | Nov 29, 2017 | Features, Language Futures, Primary, Primary Features, Secondary, Secondary Features, Student, Student Features
Words: Clodagh Cooney, ALL Council Member, Language Futures Project Manager, Nottingham Primary Hub What is independence in language learning and how can it be encouraged? In Languages Today issue 22 on Learner Independence, Terry Lamb (Professor of Languages and...
by Victoria Mitchell | Nov 15, 2017 | Features, Primary Features, Student Features
Guest blog by primary language teacher and consultant and ALL Council member Clare Seccombe. Languages became a compulsory part of the Key Stage 2 curriculum in September 2014, and, since then, many schools have made great strides in their work. However, this is not...
by Victoria Mitchell | Nov 1, 2017 | Features, Secondary Features, Student Features
Guest Blog by Crista Hazell (Head of Department and ALL Council member) How to get more from the homework you set? What specific activities can be given as homework which will be effective? Homework or out of school learning, gets a bad reputation. I’ve always seen...
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, Primary Features, Student Features
Guest blog by Lisa Stevens, primary language teacher and ALL Council member. There are several reasons why you might want to combine PE and languages. Firstly, the primary curriculum is rich in content and there are so many interesting and exciting subjects that we...
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 | 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 | 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...