Membership – 25 years of creative pedagogies in the language classroom, and why the battle for creativity is worth fighting for. I came to England as a Foreign Language assistant in September 2000. Adapting to teaching French as a foreign language was the best thing in the world for me at the time as I […]

What does it mean to be a language teacher? What does it mean to be a language teacher? There is a rich strand of research on this and in The Language Learning Journal, we have recently published a number of related articles. Particularly useful as an overview is a survey of two decades of research […]

Jane Birtwistle is a qualified MFL secondary practitioner with over 25 years of experience teaching languages from EYFS to KS5 across various state sector schools. She currently serves as the Primary Languages Lead across five primary schools in Greater Manchester, where she teaches French to KS1 and KS2 pupils and runs extra-curricular Spanish activities.   […]