by cristahazell | Jul 13, 2021 | Arabic News, Arabic Zone, Language News, News
In our daily lives, we spend a lot more time tapping at a screen and typing on a keyboard than writing with pencil and pen, so does handwriting tuition still offer anything useful? Absolutely, according to a new study. Researchers tasked 42 adult volunteers with...
by cristahazell | Jul 13, 2021 | Language News, News
Most primary school children and 40% in secondaries missed out during first lockdown, says British Council. Millions of children did not receive any language tuition during lockdowns in England, the British Council has said. The council’s annual survey of English...
by cristahazell | May 18, 2021 | Corporate Member News, Language News, News, Secondary News
The latest consultation from OFQUAL includes recommendations about the Speaking element of GCSE Languages in 2022. The essence of the proposal is to revert to the arrangements in place before the need arose to create Speaking Endorsement arrangements in 2021...
by cristahazell | Apr 7, 2021 | Consultations, Language News, News, Secondary News
ALL encourages members to respond to the DfE Content Review which is now open until 19 May 2021. There is a parallel OFQUAL consultation on ensuing arrangements for the examinations themselves. The Teacher Briefing 29 gives some of the key points about these...
by cristahazell | Mar 9, 2021 | Corporate Member News, Language News, News
Express Yourself in Lockdown, Spring 2021 This year’s Celebration of Speaking is now over, but you can still take a / listen look at how people have celebrated by putting into Twitter Search #CelebrateSpeaking. You’ll find there some of the contributions to...
by cristahazell | Jan 28, 2021 | Language News, News, Secondary News, What's New
ALL is grateful to Sonja Fedrizzi from our sister organisation in Scotland (SALT) for sharing her thoughts on the New Normal. At the 2020 annual SALT conference, I was fortunate to share my experience of teaching ML in the ‘new normal’. My presentation,...
by cristahazell | Jan 25, 2021 | Language News, News
This weekend, the Guardian reported that since Duolingo launched Welsh on it’s language learning app it is helping the Welsh Government towards reaching it’s goal of achieving 1 million Welsh speakers by 2050. To read more on how the National Centre for...
by cristahazell | Jan 21, 2021 | French Network, French Resources, German Network, German resources, Language News, News, Other Event, Primary, Primary events, Primary News, Primary Resources, Secondary, Secondary events, Secondary News, Secondary Resources, Spanish Network, Spanish resources
NALA colleagues have created a FREE resource for primary and secondary colleagues which we hope that you and any of the schools you work with might be interested in. The resources link the grammar taught in primary English with the grammar of French, German and...
by charlottelr | Jan 20, 2021 | ALL Event, ALL News, Celebration, Competitions, Corporate Member News, French Zone, German Zone, Language News, News, Primary, Primary News, Secondary, Secondary News, Spanish Zone, What's New
We all know that Speaking a language confidently and coherently is an important thing, and forms a critical part of linguistic and cultural development for all learners of languages. One of the impacts of COVID-19 has meant that many pupils have had fewer...
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 in Autumn 2020 with mitigating the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on schooling in the academic years 2019-20 and 2020-21. For Languages the major recommendation was to make...
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...
