A Year in the life of the ALL Decolonise Secondary MFL Curriculum Special Interest Group (SIG) Lisa Panford, Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of PGCE Secondary Modern Languages at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. This conference session at Language World 2021 (below) attracted much interest in collaborating on the theme of decolonised approaches to secondary MFL […]

Being reflective in an international context Caroline Conlon, Associate Professor (Education) at the IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society where she is subject leader for PGCE Languages and an MTeach tutor. Previously, Caroline worked in London secondary schools before joining the team at CILT, the National Centre for Languages.   We hear the term ‘Reflective practice’ […]

Die berichtigte Übung macht den Meister? Luke Cheveralls, Head of German, The Grey Coat School, London and recipient of the Peter Boak Prize for outstanding achievements in teaching German in 2022.   Whilst a unifying principle in foreign language teaching is the necessity of practice, we are far less unified on the extent to which […]