A summary of the content of the first few Languages Today magazines in 2009.
Spring 2009
Using phonics in a fun way, surviving the new secondary curriculum, and partnering an overseas school – a taster of issue 1:
- Good news for language learning, Trying Life in Another Language, and the new diploma in languages
- A focus on German with the Goethe Institut’s Karl Pfeiffer
- A world of language partnerships with the British Council, and
- Joe Dale with his Best 10 Blogs.
Summer 2009
Teaching languages through football, community cohesion and songs for motivation and learning – a taster of issue 2:
- The Open School for Languages, the recommendations of the Rose Review, crossing the curriculum divide and multilingual London
- A focus on French and how UK teachers and pupils can immerse themselves in la langue française
- Sir Keith Ajegbo about community cohesion, and how language learning can unite different cultural and socio-economic groups, and
- A day in the life of Bev Whiteside, Development Coordinator – Languages & Sport at the Youth Sports Trust.
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