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Esperanto: a contemporary lingua franca
Deak Kirkham, Teaching Fellow, Academic English for Business & Management and Linguistics Tutor at Leeds University Name some international languages (or ‘lingua francas’ as they’re sometimes called). English is likely to top most contemporary lists; other reasonable answers might include Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Russian and Spanish, all of which are spoken in some sense across […]
The Big Idea – Resilience
Anna Lise Gordon, ALL President 2016-18 The Theory What is resilience? Neenan (2009: 3) describes resilience as an ‘intriguing yet elusive concept’ but there is no doubt that the concept has assumed greater significance in educational documents in recent years. Teachers are expected to develop resilient pupils with the ‘grit’ needed to […]
Approaches to assessment in KS2 and beyond
(This is an extended version of the article which appeared in the Summer 2016 issue of Languages Today magazine, with additional references and exemplification) Introduction Two of the issues exercising colleagues in the ALL Primary Hubs and beyond are the vexed question of assessment, and what recording of pupil achievement and experience in key stage […]
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