‘There are no passengers on planet earth, we are all crew.’ The British Council International School Award and wider schools offer. Did you know that as the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities, the British...
“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...
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...
This article represents my personal and professional reflections on the importance of language learning in general and the particular importance of language education post-pandemic. It aims to articulate a reimagining of language learning as a regenerative and...
Our Best (more than) Ten things to hang on to As things change in technology, the scheme of work, inspection focus or specifications, teachers sometimes drop activities they have been doing with success, in order to try new ones (and sometimes risk throwing away some...
An aspiration expressed in vision statements, in schemes of learning and indeed in the National Curriculum itself in some incarnations is that the education system exists to create lifelong learners, to awaken curiosity in younger pupils and develop for older students...
