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...
by cristahazell | Jun 19, 2020 | Arabic events, Competitions, French events, German events, Italian events, Japanese events, Language News, Mandarin events, News, Portuguese events, Primary, Primary events, Russian events, Secondary, Secondary events, Spanish events, What's New, World languages events
This year's Routes into Languages East Mother Tongue Other Tongue poetry competition is now open. It is aimed at encouraging school students whose first language wasn't English to share their Mother Tongue by remembering or creating poetry written in their 'Mother...
by cristahazell | May 17, 2020 | Language News, News, Secondary News, Wales, What's New
What can be done to inspire an uplift for modern foreign languages across Wales in the future? Lucy Jenkins, the national co-ordinator for the Modern Foreign Languages Student Mentoring Project and also project development manager for Language Horizons, a digital...
by cristahazell | May 12, 2020 | ALL Local, ALL News, Language News, News, North East, Other Event, What's New
At a time when Language learning and cultural diversity in England are again under pressure it is nice to hear of projects that are championing an international ethos for personal, social and economic purposes. The city of Newcastle has set up International Newcastle...
