The Language Learning Journal (LLJ) is ALL’s flagship research journal, published on our behalf by Routledge. It provides a forum for scholarly contributions on current aspects of foreign language and teaching. The LLJ is an international, peer-reviewed journal that...
By Sarah Schechter Routes into Languages East projects, most of which are available nationally, offer engagement with proven, successful, motivating projects created by, and developed together with highly regarded, experienced teachers, with their strong insights into...
By Claire Jones and Stéphanie Schmitt (St James School, Exeter) Phonics is an aspect of language learning with many benefits, which has long been recognised by teachers as crucial for pupils to master, but in the time poor context of a UK classroom it has perhaps been...
By Esmeralda Salgado (Head of MFL & Spanish at King’s Ely Senior school in Cambridgeshire) Language learning is not an easy journey and there are many theories and methodologies based on different research on how our brain acquires a second language. Over the...
By Suzanne Graham (Institute of Education, University of Reading) and Robert Woore (Oxford University Department of Education) Fluent reading may appear effortless, but look beneath the surface and it is a feat of enormous complexity, underpinned by a wide range of...