How to … approach using challenging texts in MFL: how beginner learners can benefit
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...
Stafford Leys Languages for the Future Project
By Angela Smith (Stafford Leys Primary School) Those of you with long memories may recall an article in the Languages Today magazine a couple of years ago detailing the Stafford Leys Primary School ‘Languages for the Future’ project. Having identified a training need,...
A Day in the Life … of a multilingual school
Jane Driver, May 2019 Jane Driver, Language teacher and Assistant Principal at Queen Katharine Academy (QKA) in Peterborough believes that MFL teachers have a lot to offer in supporting EAL students with their linguistic development, particularly newly-arrived...
ALL for One and One for All – How to engage adult learners
Tania Sanders, May 2019 The above quotation from ‘The Three Musketeers’ by Dumas has passed into the English language and conjures up thoughts of comradeship and unity. This motto could also be applied to my Derby U3A French Conversation Group which has been meeting...