by cristahazell | Jan 14, 2022 | ALL News, Language News, News
The Association for Language Learning released a statement in response to the DfE GCSE MFL Subject Content Review. You can read the full statement here: Response to DfE GCSE MFL Subject Content Review announcement.
by cristahazell | Jan 2, 2022 | News
In March 2020, as the Covid pandemic took hold, the language learning app Duolingo reported double its usual number of sign-ups. Stuck inside under lockdown orders, people had time on their hands and were looking for ways to occupy it. It wasn’t long before I joined...
by cristahazell | Dec 30, 2021 | News
Researchers in Japan used magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of secondary school students during a task focused on musical observation. They found that students trained to play music from a young age exhibited certain kinds of brain activity more strongly...
by cristahazell | Dec 30, 2021 | News
Interest in anime, gaming and K-pop is fuelling a boom in Korean and Japanese university degrees that is helping to revive modern languages departments struggling with falling enrolments. Acceptances to study Korean more than trebled from 50 to 175 between 2012 and...
by cristahazell | Dec 30, 2021 | News
New visa requirements mean that EU students will go elsewhere, writes Karen Brandes, while Brigid Hoffmann worries about the consequences for language learning. The slump in school trips to the UK described in your article does not surprise me at all (‘Almost...
