by cristahazell | Oct 14, 2020 | ALL News, Corporate Member News, Discussion Area, Language News, News, Secondary News, Teacher Briefings
Theme: GCSE Languages 2021 Background: OFQUAL was tasked by the Secretary of State with mitigating the impact of the pandemic on schooling in the academic years 2019-20 and 2020-21. For Languages the major recommendation was to make the spoken language assessment an...
by cristahazell | Aug 28, 2020 | CM Event, Corporate Member News, Language News, News, Spanish Discussions, Spanish event, Spanish Network, Spanish news, Spanish Zone, What's New
Cursos de formación en línea para profesorado británico e irlandés de español (octubre-noviembre 2020) El Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional de España ofrece plazas a profesorado británico e irlandés de español para cursos en línea que se desarrollarán...
by cristahazell | Aug 19, 2020 | ALL News, Consultations, Discussion Area, French Discussions, German Discussions, Language News, News, Secondary, Secondary News, What's New
As you are aware, ALL wrote to OFQUAL on Monday to ask how the 2% adjustment to French and German GCSE results would be applied to Centre Assessment grades. We have had a reply which you can read here. In the meantime, we wanted to share with you two documents...
by cristahazell | Aug 18, 2020 | ALL News, French Discussions, German Discussions, Language News, News, Secondary News, What's New
ALL have written to Sally Collier and Roger Taylor at Ofqual with regard to severe grading measures in GCSE French and German. Read the letter in full here: ALL_Ofqual_SevereGrading2020 We look forward to their statement in response and shall share this with you...
by cristahazell | Aug 13, 2020 | ALL News, Language News, News, Secondary News, What's New
ALL President Jane Harvey comments on this year’s results: “I would like to congratulate all A and AS-level language students and their teachers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on their results in this exceptional year. A level language courses require not...
by cristahazell | Aug 2, 2020 | ALL News, Language News, News, What's New
Report from: Internationalism Alliance webinar hosted by the British Council and The Prince’s Trust Monday 20th July 2020 The mission of the Alliance is to ensure that internationalism is interwoven in every young person’s education, life and experiences...
by cristahazell | Jul 30, 2020 | Corporate Member News, Discussion Area, Language News, News
On July 29th, the ALL-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages (APPG MFL) submitted the following to the Migration Advisory Committee : Call for the inclusion of teachers of all modern foreign language, and public service interpreters and translators, on the...
by cristahazell | Jul 26, 2020 | Language News, News, What's New
The OWRI-funded ‘Creative Multilingualism’ project has published a report about their research outlining the impact of creative approaches to language learning in schools. Creativity with Languages in Schools documents work involving 95 partner schools, 250...
by cristahazell | Jul 8, 2020 | ALL News, Corporate Member News, Discussion Area, Language News, News, Secondary News, What's New
PRESS RELEASE: July 8, 2020 Towards a National Languages Strategy: Education and Skills The Association for Language Learning (ALL) welcomes the proposals put forward in the new report from the British Academy and partners “Towards a National Languages...
by cristahazell | Jul 1, 2020 | ALL News, Corporate Member, Corporate Member News, Discussion Area, Language News, News, Teacher Briefings, What's New
Theme: Language Trends 2020 Background: The annual Language Trends report was published here in late June: https://www.britishcouncil.org/research-policy-insight/research-reports/language-trends-2020 Key messages: We have extracted here some of the key findings of...
by cristahazell | Jul 1, 2020 | Corporate Member News, Language News, News, Primary, Primary News, Secondary News, Wales
A new approach to language learning in Wales. The importance of celebrating and underlining the strength of home languages for many of our multilingual pupils. Pupils in Wales already have the opportunity of a bilingual foundation at nursery and primary level. Close...
by cristahazell | Jun 19, 2020 | Action research, Discussion Area, Events, Language News, News, Primary, Secondary, Secondary News, What's New
Teaching and Learning Languages in Primary Schools: Putting Research into Practice. A new MOOC (free online course). A team of researchers at the Universities of Southampton, Essex and Reading have developed a free online course, open to anyone, to encourage...
