ALL Sixth Form Lectures in Bristol 2024 – Report by Thomas Weidner, interim chair of the West of England Branch Committee The ALL Sixth Form Lectures in Bristol has been a very popular event in the annual agenda of the ALL’s West of England Branch through the years....
New GCSE, new curriculum design? Wendy Adeniji was previously a secondary school principal, and is now an MFL consultant and trainer and co-author of the book Tried and tested: the ultimate guide to teaching primary languages (2022). Helen Myers’ scrupulously...
Impact is our stock-in-trade at The Language Learning Journal (LLJ). Assessing the impact of factor X or intervention Y is the purpose of research; defining what ‘impact’ is in a given context and working out how to assess it reliably is its major challenge. As...
The impact of the residential course Isabelle Jones, ALL Council Last summer, I had the opportunity to go on a CLIL course in Málaga, 22-29 July 2023. The course was offered exclusively to ALL members, funded by Erasmus+, organised by LFEE and facilitated by a very...
Languages Local to You 2023: Reflections on a schools’ project celebrating and making visible linguistic diversity in the UK Katy Humberstone, Francesco Goglia, Liz Black, and Joshua Taylor. Following a successful edition in 2022, the Languages Local to You project...
Who are we accountable to? Steven Fawkes (ALL Trustee and Volunteer) The pressures on educational establishments to behave like businesses, and the associated concept of accountability, have grown enormously over recent times. They have created demands on teachers’...
