In conversation with ECTs and trainee teachers The ALL Social Zoom is a monthly online event during the academic year which brings together trainee teachers, ECTs, practising teachers and teacher trainers. We encourage the ECTs and trainees to take the lead with short...
A Moment of Clarity for Languages: Reflections on the House of Lords Debate on Teacher Recruitment By René Koglbauer‑Franklin, ALL Chair of the Management Board and Professor of Professional Learning and Leadership, Newcastle University On 8 January 2026, the House...
Revolution? Evolution? The Curriculum Assessment Review 2025 Our first LLJ issue of 2026 is a special focusing on the Department for Education’s recent Curriculum Assessment Review. Following publication of the CAR Interim Report in the spring of 2025, The Language...
ALL Council members hosted by the Goethe-Institut, meeting the GEMS (German Expert Mentors) in November 2025 As a Charity ALL is managed by a Board of Trustees (we call it the Management Board), supported by other volunteers in advisory roles. These include the ALL...
In the classroom Being a Languages Learner in a primary school In many primary schools languages are being squeezed due to the pressures of the core curriculum, so it is important that we use the limited time we have creatively to make the learning experience...
The Debate on Vocabulary What’s in a Word? Historical context and the relative importance of vocabulary teaching. It would seem obvious that learning new words is a vital part of language learning and yet, over the 30+ years that I have been teaching languages (at...
