In the context of the current pandemic and governmental advice about avoiding / limiting personal contact or staying at home entirely schools and teachers are looking for ways of using technology and self-study approaches to help students continue their language...
Dear Colleagues, In light of the rapidly changing circumstances and advice around Covid-19, the decision has been taken by ALL Management Board to cancel or postpone all events, workshops or seminars up to Easter 2020 (12th April 2020) with immediate effect. We will...
Theme: Effects of high-quality professional development on teachers and students Background: A new report (February 2020) from the Education Policy Institute undertakes a detailed review of the evidence on the impact of teacher professional development. The Key...
Theme: Boys and Languages This is an overview of a very recent report led by the British Council and the Education Policy Institute published in January 2020. The report comes in two parts: Part 1 looks at the background, while Part 2 looks at schools’ strategies....
Theme: Current initiatives concerning Languages Background: This is an overview of initiatives ALL members are aware of currently; some emerge from the several papers published in March 2019 (as reported in Briefing 7: ‘Live language learning issues’). APPG (All...
In preparation for the new academic year, we have prepared four teacher briefings for Primary Languages: Teacher Briefing 13: What Primary Language coordinators need to know: Background Teacher Briefing 14: What Primary Language coordinators need to know: The Primary...
