What is your thinking … on international visits?   The 2024 Language Trends includes in its headlines ‘Decreases in international engagement in both state primary and state secondary schools’. ALL Members know from their own experience the importance and inspiration that travel and encountering new cultures and people bring. Languages Today went to a Stoke-on-Trent […]

The Big Idea: Student Voice, civic engagement and the arts.   This blog reports on a sustainable development project at the Peace School, a community-based heritage language school in London providing Arabic language and culture education. Supported by Young Brent Foundation the project involved a close collaboration between the Peace School and Start Easy, an […]

The Debate on Developing Speaking in Classrooms Post Covid.   During the Covid pandemic 2020-2022, Speaking in language lessons was discouraged on medical grounds and began to disappear from language teaching and assessing and is only now beginning a resurgence. A group of ITT MFL provider leads were becoming discouraged with the lack of target […]