by Wendy Newman | Jun 19, 2014 | News
ALL is delighted to announce that the following positions within the Association for 2014-2017 will be filled by: ALL Council members Sue Balmer – Sue has had a long career in teaching modern languages, and has worked as an Advanced Skills Teacher and adviser to...
by Wendy Newman | May 9, 2014 | News
The Association for Language Learning would like to express its shock and sadness at the death of Spanish teacher Anne Maguire yesterday, killed while teaching her year 11 Spanish class. Tributes pouring in from staff, parents and pupils of Corpus Christi Catholic...
by Wendy Newman | Apr 23, 2014 | News
Department for Education calls for bids for CPD for modern foreign languages in primary and secondary schools The DfE has today announced a call for bids to support the new programmes of study at key stages 2 and 3. For further details, please click here. Interested...
by Wendy Newman | Mar 26, 2014 | News
The view from the red sofa Primary practitioner and ALL Primary Special Interest Group member Catherine Cheater was invited onto BBC Breakfast this week to talk about primary language teaching. In the run up to compulsory language learning in Key Stage 2 from...
by Wendy Newman | Feb 24, 2014 | News
UK language capacity in the fields of diplomacy, international relations and security As the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague, recently stated: “Diplomacy is the art of understanding different cultures, and using this...
by Wendy Newman | Feb 17, 2014 | News
Your help is needed! The University of York are investigating perceptions of research and evidence amongst language teachers and teacher educators based in the UK. They would like to know about what helps and hinders engagement with and interest in research (reading...