In June 2016, the Teaching Schools Council (TSC) announced a review of modern foreign language pedagogy within secondary schools. The aim of the review was to produce an authoritative report on effective language pedagogy by Autumn 2016, drawing on the available...
How does language influence culture and identity? One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the ~7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear. But what is lost when a language falls silent? People and nature blur in the...
Languages for all – why should everyone learn a language? Learning a language boosts self esteem, improves communication, and opens doors. According to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages: Research shows that language learning has a...
The many ways in which languages boost brain power – who’s saying what: How morality changes in a foreign language: “Moral judgments made in a foreign language are less laden with the emotional reactions that surface when we use a language learned in...
News from the British Academy Born Global is a British Academy project on languages and employability, which set out to develop a deeper understanding of language needs for employment, employer attitudes to languages and how languages are used in the workplace for...
GCSE & A Level qualifications in lesser taught languages to continue Following the reform of GCSE and A level qualifications, the exam boards announced in March 2015 that they would not be continuing to offer GCSE and A level qualifications in a number of smaller,...
