How to … weave together Geography and Language – exploring new pedagogies through CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) Helen Aberdeen and Michelle Graffagnino, University of Bristol School of Education. Early in 2022, an MFL tutor at Bristol...
The Last Word: A Call to Arms for Languages: Safeguarding a Multilingual Education for the UK For anyone working in our languages community, the importance of the study of languages is as obvious as breathing. It provides skills that go far beyond the accurate...
Our Best ideas for using bilingual texts The most common use of a ‘bilingual text’ in the secondary Languages context is possibly the flashcards teachers ask students to create for themselves (or sometimes provide for them) for revision of vocabulary, or for...
A Languages Celebration Evening – Hosted by the Brayford Language Hub (one of the NCLE Language Hubs) On Thursday the 17th October, the Brayford Languages Hub, led by the Priory Academy LSST, held their inaugural Celebration of Languages. This event not only...
What is your thinking … on international visits? The 2024 Language Trends includes in its headlines ‘Decreases in international engagement in both state primary and state secondary schools’. ALL Members know from their own experience the importance and inspiration...
The Big Idea: Student Voice, civic engagement and the arts. This blog reports on a sustainable development project at the Peace School, a community-based heritage language school in London providing Arabic language and culture education. Supported by Young Brent...