As this issue of Languages Today is focussing on skills our reviewers have been looking at three resources available to teachers which focus on listening and speaking practice. For language learners these two skills are intrinsically linked, and I do hope you will...
President’s blog February 2022 Among the buzzwords that assail us, the term levelling up is frequent just now – levelling up between the South and the North has promised state of the art transport for the northern powerhouse. I looked forward to getting from...
Echt 1 and 2 Anneli McLachlan, Mariela Affum and Marcus Waltl Oxford University Press, 2020 (Echt 1), 2021 (Echt 2), 151pp, £21.50 ISBN: Echt 1: 978-0-19-849471-3; Echt 2: 978-0-19-849472-0 Echt 1 and Echt 2 are German textbooks suitable for KS3. Echt is ideal for...
What’s new in The Language Learning Journal? October 2021 Elspeth Broady, Academic Co-editor, The Language Learning Journal Our most recent special issue (LLJ 49.4 The Language Learning Journal: Vol 49, No 4 (tandfonline.com)) focuses on multilingual identity...
Our friends at CLIE (Committee for Linguistics in Education) have noted the conclusion of the recent OfSTED Research Review for Languages that ‘an effective languages curriculum focuses on the building blocks of language: phonics, vocabulary and grammar.’ (See link...
