by Clodagh Cooney | Oct 23, 2018 | Initiatives, News, Primary News, Project News
In September, we received some fantastic news from the British Council – ALL is part of a successful KA2 ERASMUS + application and along with our partners has been awarded funding for the ELAPSE project. ELAPSE (Embedding Languages Across Primary and Secondary...
by Clodagh Cooney | Oct 16, 2018 | News, Primary News, Secondary News, Student News
Nurturing yourself, personally and professionally Quality connections Time to grow as a MFL teacher Your career as a teacher has begun… This mini publication is designed to support you to become an outstanding MFL NQT with some suggestions that will set you well on...
by Victoria Mitchell | May 1, 2018 | ALL News, News, Primary News, Secondary News, Student News
Hackney Learning Trust was invited by Baroness Cousins, (Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Languages), to showcase their unique MFL provision to the committee at the House of Lords on Monday 19 March. A team made up of experts, consultants, teachers...
by Victoria Mitchell | Apr 13, 2018 | ALL News, News, Primary News, Secondary News, Student News
More than three in four British business leaders believe speaking Mandarin will give school leavers a career advantage over their counterparts, according to a survey published this week by YouGov. The new survey, commissioned by the Mandarin Excellence Programme, aims...
by charlottelr | Feb 2, 2018 | ALL News, Primary News
The Northern Ireland Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (NICILT), has recently launched a call for undergraduate students of French, Irish and Spanish at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) to ‘adopt a class’ of twelve year olds at their former...
by Victoria Mitchell | Feb 1, 2018 | Primary News, Secondary News, Student News
Guest blog by ALL Student Ambassadors, Florence Brown and Tessa Stevenson, who attended the APPG meeting at the House of Lords An All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) meeting was held on Monday 29 January at the House of Lords on the topic of the cognitive benefits of...
by Victoria Mitchell | Jan 24, 2018 | Features, News, Primary Features, Primary News, Secondary Features, Secondary News, Student Features, Student News
Are you a French teacher? A teacher of other subjects in French? A trainer? A language leader or coordinator? A French language assistant ? A student teacher ? A head of school or language department? Becoming a member on IFprofs is FREE and will help you: 1) Find...
by Victoria Mitchell | Jan 19, 2018 | Primary News, Secondary News, Student News
Here at the Association for Language Learning (ALL) we like to keep members up to date with initiatives which will support your practice. We would therefore like to draw your attention to a new online, open-access journal called “Languages, Society and Policy” run by...
by Victoria Mitchell | Jan 15, 2018 | News, Primary News, Secondary News
Nominations for ALL Fellowship 2018 are now open! The award of fellowship recognises ALL Individual Members who have made a long-standing contribution to language learning in the UK. This will be beyond the call of their professional role and may be on a national or...
by Victoria Mitchell | Jan 10, 2018 | Primary News, Secondary News, Student Features, Student News
ALL Council member David Shanks reflects on the benefits of becoming a member of ALL and engaging in local and regional events. I first became aware of ALL whilst completing my PGCE at the Institute of Education in 2009-10. I duly took advantage of a next-to-nothing...
by Helen Senior | Dec 11, 2017 | ALL News, News, Primary News, Secondary News, Student News
ALL is spreading a little festive cheer between 11-22 December 2017 with its 12 days of Christmas campaign. Traditionally the twelve days of Christmas are the days between Christmas Day and the Epiphany, Jan. 6th when Christians celebrate the arrival of the Magi (Wise...
by Helen Senior | Nov 30, 2017 | Language Futures, News, Primary News, Secondary News, Student News
“As we learn to adapt to a shifting international landscape, a new approach to developing our young people as competent linguists could prove crucial.” Following the DfE’s English Baccalaureate (EBacc) consultation, the government’s revised target is for...
