ALL for primary teachers

ALL has a special membership rate for primary schools costing just £50 a year. Primary group membership enables all teaching staff involved in primary languages at a single school to receive full access to the Language Learning Journal, the ALL Language Zones, termly copies of Languages Today magazine and the weekly e-bulletin ALLNet.

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.

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What we offer for ALL members:

Primary Hubs

Local groups across the country offering training and support.

Languages Today

Practical ideas and content for primary teachers through our termly magazine, Languages Today.

ALLNet

Weekly news and updates with our e-newsletter, ALLNet.

Events

Low cost networking and CPD events across the country.

Language Zones

An entirely interactive and interconnected archive on language teaching practice.

Competitions

Discover challenges and competitions for your learners

Become a member

We have a range of packages available to suit your situation, and all include a host of benefits.

Primary Special Interest Group (SIG)

ALL has a special interest group on primary education, to support teachers (and thereby learners), share in local and national events and publications, give teachers a national voice, and bring people together. To get more involved in this online group, or to tell us what you, as a primary practitioner, would like ALL to provide, please get in touch.

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.

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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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What we offer to everyone:

ALL Connect

Free training materials for KS2 teachers through our ALL Connect programme.

Projects

Explore our range of national and international projects for teachers.

Email fora

Anyone who is teaching languages in the primary sector can also join Primary Languages, ALL's email discussion group.

Resources

Find resources for teaching languages for teachers, language coordinators and head teachers in primary schools.

Advice & guidance

Find advice and guidance on teaching languages for teachers, language coordinators and head teachers in primary schools.

Pinterest

Check out our Pinterest pages on a host of different topics.