How to … weave together Geography and Language – exploring new pedagogies through CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning)   Helen Aberdeen and Michelle Graffagnino,  University of Bristol School of Education.   Early in 2022, an MFL tutor at Bristol University’s School of Education mentioned to her geography colleague that she was doing a session […]

The Last Word: A Call to Arms for Languages: Safeguarding a Multilingual Education for the UK       For anyone working in our languages community, the importance of the study of languages is as obvious as breathing. It provides skills that go far beyond the accurate use of vocabulary and grammar: it fosters cross-cultural […]

Our Best ideas for using bilingual texts   The most common use of a ‘bilingual text’ in the secondary Languages context is possibly the flashcards teachers ask students to create for themselves (or sometimes provide for them) for revision of vocabulary, or for reviewing  grammatical structures, or for practising questions and answers. These  have English […]