Who would have thought it? The 19th March was my last “normal” day of the school year! It was also the first of many incredible webinars supported by ALL London, and one in which  Joe Dale presented a 12-page-document full of ideas and IT resources to support MFL teachers in response to the Coronavirus outbreak. […]

During the lockdown, many companies offered extended free trials of their language learning websites and apps. Ones I used with my pupils include: Education Perfect, Yabla, LanguageNut, TheEverLearner, ImmerseMe, uTalk and ThisIsLanguage. All of them were great in different ways, including customer support and communication. Considering I was a non-paying customer, I was unfailingly impressed […]

At the Stephen Spender Trust we have been busy thinking anew about creative translation: how can this activity, which for a number of years has focused on in-person translation workshops in schools and universities, be adapted for the ‘new normal’?   We felt fortunate that our flagship programme, the Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation, […]