How to … use drama and performance to develop confidence and independence in speaking. Exactly ten years ago – Autumn 2014 – Languages Today published an article on ‘Transition: the next challenge’. Primary languages had just become statutory, and transition was a hot topic. I reported on a new KS2 / KS3 French/Drama initiative – […]

Amplifying children’s voices and expanding spaces for language and culture learning through a whole-school bilingual Russian-English project Vally Lytra, Maria Gavrilova, Paul Hume, Nadia Loureda, Tatiana Shtykova and Jelena Rosenberg  Vally Lytra is Reader in Languages in Education at Goldsmiths, University of London. Maria Gavrilova is Founder and Headteacher of Azbuka International School, where Paul Hume […]

Sharing the NCLE Vision of Principled Practice Introduction We asked UCL IOE’s Honorary Professor Bernardette Holmes  MBE, Director of the National Consortium for Languages Education (NCLE) and the Language Hubs to choose 10 principles with examples to describe Principled Practice and Learning from What Works, which underlie the ethos of NCLE. Funded by DfE, the […]