ALL for primary teachers
As a primary group member, you will receive a school membership card which you can take to local ALL events as proof of membership. You and your colleagues will also benefit from a discount on attending the Language World annual conference. You can find out more about joining here.
What we offer for ALL members:
Primary Hubs
Languages Today
ALLNet
Events
Language Zones
Competitions
Become a member
Primary Special Interest Group (SIG)
Primary Steering Group
The Primary Steering Group operates virtually to review and to take significant matters forward. It consists of about ten invited people, identified by reason of geographical distribution, representation of different languages and areas of expertise.
Members of the Steering Group contribute to the termly Roadshow created to support Primary Hubs (on the right).
The Steering Group also makes recommendations virtually in between meetings, to approve, for instance, the establishment of new primary hubs, or advise on websites, publications or blogs with a primary languages focus.
The group also refers matters for discussion to ALL's governance functions, the ALL Council and Management Board.
Observers from cultural institutions are also invited to the Steering Group meetings. Members of the Steering Group contribute to the termly roadshow created to support Primary Hubs (on the right).
The Steering Group also makes recommendations virtually in between meetings, to approve, for instance, the establishment of new primary hubs, or advise on websites, publications or blogs with a primary languages focus.
The group also refers matters for discussion onto ALL's governance functions, the ALL Council and Management Board.
Branch & Network and Primary Hub Roadshows
The Roadshows are presentations to update local groups on news from ALL, events and projects of interest, along with sector news and resources of interest. Local ALL groups can access the presentations to share with their local group attendees.
Research links
The Language Learning Journal: If you are a head teacher or Primary Languages Co-ordinator you may be interested in two Special Issues of ALL's academic journal, the Language Learning Journal:
- Foreign Languages in Primary Schools Part 1 - Volume 37, Issue 2 July 2009: here you will find articles on a Discovering Language project, developing reading strategies in primary learners of French, creating the conditions for success, progression and assessment, the Brighton and Hove Pathfinder, motivation across the KS2/KS3 transition, and the educational aims of primary language teaching.
- Foreign Languages In Primary Schools Part 2 - Volume 38, Issue 2 July 2010: with reports on languages in Scotland and in Northern Ireland, a multilingual project, Assessment for Learning, English as a foreign Language teaching in Turkey, and two articles on video conferencing.
The OASIS database (https://oasis-database.org) makes research in language studies more accessible to those who don't have time or money to access research findings behind paywalls.
OASIS holds about 1,500 one-page summaries written in non-technical language - all summaries are freely available, and new summaries arrive every week.
The summaries cover a very wide range of topics including:
multilingualism computer-assisted language learning feedback
CLIL assessment classroom teaching language policy language learning
theories motivation
self-efficacy language learning across the lifespan teacher identity
neurolinguistics heritage, home, and community languages and many more!
OASIS also holds summaries of large systematic reviews of whole areas of research.
***Note*** The monthly newsletter about new summaries has ceased!
So, signing up is the only way you can receive notifications about new summaries. It takes just a minute. You will then receive an email containing links to new summaries. You can:
1) Sign up to all summaries. Every week you will receive an email with url links to all new summaries that week. We recommend this option if you have wide-ranging interests.
OR
2) Subscribe to keywords that match your interests. Every week you will receive an email with links to new summaries that match your selected keywords.
Sign up here.
RIPL
The RiPL network is a group of researchers, practising teachers, teacher educators and policy makers interested in Research in Primary Languages.
Please click here for more information.
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