The Debate on Developing Speaking in Classrooms Post Covid. During the Covid pandemic 2020-2022, Speaking in language lessons was discouraged on medical grounds and began to disappear from language teaching and assessing and is only now beginning a resurgence. A...
Language learners have their say from the NCLE team In the National Consortium for Languages Education the team has put Pupil Voice at the heart of work on revitalising languages teaching. As part of the focus on motivation, many of the lead hubs engaged with pupils...
Brisk Teaching, Diffit and LDP Multilingual Profiler Brisk Teaching Throughout the last academic year, I was delighted to embrace AI in my teaching and preparation to save me time and enhance the learning of my students. Certainly, the free Chrome Extension Brisk...
In the classroom: Joy of reading Two years ago, I had an epiphany. Cast adrift from the island of MFL to teach English I had realised how steeped in fantastic literature English lessons were and how poor the literary diet was in MFL lessons, by comparison. What...
How to … use drama and performance to develop confidence and independence in speaking. Exactly ten years ago – Autumn 2014 – Languages Today published an article on ‘Transition: the next challenge’. Primary languages had just become statutory, and transition was a hot...
Amplifying children’s voices and expanding spaces for language and culture learning through a whole-school bilingual Russian-English project Vally Lytra, Maria Gavrilova, Paul Hume, Nadia Loureda, Tatiana Shtykova and Jelena Rosenberg Vally Lytra is Reader in...
