Sharing the NCLE Vision of Principled Practice Introduction We asked UCL IOE’s Honorary Professor Bernardette Holmes MBE, Director of the National Consortium for Languages Education (NCLE) and the Language Hubs to choose 10 principles with examples to describe...
Hawkins joins Trim in the ODNB The contribution of Eric Hawkins to the development of our profession has been recognised by his inclusion in the online Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB). alongside other distinguished educators, including his friend and...
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...
