Clare Seccombe, author of this blog, has been sharing resources, purpose-made for the Primary Language classroom, for nearly 20 years. LT celebrates here Clare’s commitment to her colleagues, and the recent award she has richly deserved.   All teachers, including primary languages teachers, are short of time, and I hope that being able to access […]

To paraphrase JFK “Ask not what your German teacher can do for you, but what you can do for your German teachers.” His message of solidarity has relevance today at a time when the teaching and learning of German is once again feeling the pinch, despite a plethora of excellent, expert and enthusiastic teachers. Summer […]

A Year in the life of the ALL Decolonise Secondary MFL Curriculum Special Interest Group (SIG) Lisa Panford, Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of PGCE Secondary Modern Languages at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. This conference session at Language World 2021 (below) attracted much interest in collaborating on the theme of decolonised approaches to secondary MFL […]