by cristahazell | Jun 10, 2021 | News
The Conversation posted this piece concerning ‘what makes someone bilingual’, an interesting read. It’s estimated that half the world’s population is bilingual, and two-thirds of the world’s children grow up in an environment where several languages...
by cristahazell | Jun 7, 2021 | ALL News, News, Secondary News, What's New
ALL Press Release Ofsted Research Language Review “ALL welcomes the emphasis in this report on the integral role of languages in the curriculum and agrees that learning a language helps to equip pupils with the knowledge and cultural capital they need to...
by cristahazell | Jun 7, 2021 | News
A news article featured in The Guardian gives a warning that the loss of young Europeans on pupil visits will cause reputational damage to UK, say tour organisers. French and German educational trip organisers bringing as many as 750,000 school pupils to the UK every...
by cristahazell | May 24, 2021 | Languages Today extended content
“The process of teaching a foreign language should imply teaching the cultural aspects connected to such a language and not just its grammar and vocabulary.” (Cortés, 2007). Few would disagree but it is easy to be misled into thinking that language and culture can be...
by cristahazell | May 24, 2021 | Languages Today extended content
Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence Revisited Michael Byram Multilingual Matters, 2020, 200pp, £79.95 ISBN 1800410247 This is without doubt one of the best, most thought provoking books that I have read in recent years. The central message...
