Hannah White @madamewhite2017 teaches Primary children in Bristol and runs the ALL Bristol Primary Hub with a colleague. Languages Today (LT) asked her about how she uses stories to help pupils memorise and progress in their language learning. This is an extended...
Let me begin this article with a confession: before taking up my current post as a PGCE tutor in MFL at the University of Bristol, I was a full time classroom teacher with middle management departmental and pastoral responsibilities. No, that’s not the confession. The...
Who would have thought it? The 19th March was my last “normal” day of the school year! It was also the first of many incredible webinars supported by ALL London, and one in which Joe Dale presented a 12-page-document full of ideas and IT resources to support MFL...
During the lockdown, many companies offered extended free trials of their language learning websites and apps. Ones I used with my pupils include: Education Perfect, Yabla, LanguageNut, TheEverLearner, ImmerseMe, uTalk and ThisIsLanguage. All of them were great in...
At the Stephen Spender Trust we have been busy thinking anew about creative translation: how can this activity, which for a number of years has focused on in-person translation workshops in schools and universities, be adapted for the ‘new normal’? We felt fortunate...
This is a fuller account of the article in LT36 about Natascia Servini’s project with a Y8 Italian classer Sarah Bonnell School in London. This is based on her reflections as to the most effective way forward given current priorities and the context of 2020. Last...
