Die berichtigte Übung macht den Meister? Luke Cheveralls, Head of German, The Grey Coat School, London and recipient of the Peter Boak Prize for outstanding achievements in teaching German in 2022.   Whilst a unifying principle in foreign language teaching is the necessity of practice, we are far less unified on the extent to which […]

In the classroom: Using songs for language practice, and more  Catherine Cantin teaches French to nursery and primary children.   I love singing and dancing. I sing and dance at every opportunity; when I’m making a cup of tea, when I’m walking my children to school, when I’m waiting in a queue… I can’t help […]

Working with the de-colonising agenda Rachel Wright.   My language learning and language teaching experience (30 years combined) have taken place almost entirely in the multicultural and multilingual context of London schools and universities. Today I am head of languages in an extremely diverse West-London girls’ comprehensive school where every classroom and most staff offices […]