by cristahazell | Sep 23, 2020 | News, Other Event, Primary, Secondary News, World languages event
Our colleagues at SCILT have collated a wealth of ideas for Primary and Secondary schools as well as parents and families to join in the languages fun safely. For more details see here:https://scilt.org.uk/EuropeanDayofLanguages/tabid/5390/Default.aspx The rest of...
by cristahazell | Aug 20, 2020 | ALL News, French Discussions, German Discussions, News, Secondary, Secondary News, What's New
Dear Prof Koglbauer and Ms Harvey, Thank you for your email to Sally Collier and Roger Taylor, and my apologies for the delay in responding to you. I am responding on their behalf. Prior to the summer, we announced that we would make an adjustment to the...
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 6, 2020 | News, Secondary News, What's New
Today Ofqual have published further information for students and their families in the following guide: ‘What to do if you have concerns or questions about your grades: student guide to appeals and malpractice or maladministration complaints’. The guide sets...
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 | 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 | 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 15, 2020 | French Resources, French Zone, News, Primary News, Primary Resources, Resources, Secondary News, Secondary Resources, Spanish resources, Spanish Zone, What's New
The Oak National Academy came about over a very short timescale during the Easter holiday as a spontaneous coming together of a number of academy trusts around the country in response to the growing awareness that during the ongoing lockdown period many schools would...
by cristahazell | May 11, 2020 | Corporate Member, German Discussions, German event, German Network, German News, German Zone, Language News, News, Other Event, Secondary News, What's New
Call for Abstracts – Submission Open The next International German Teacher Conference (IDT2021) will take place in Summer 2021 in Vienna, Austria. The call for abstracts is open from 1st April until 15th September 2020 so please do get thinking about what you...
