ALL Council members hosted by the Goethe-Institut, meeting the GEMS (German Expert Mentors) in November 2025   As a Charity ALL is managed by a Board of Trustees (we call it the Management Board), supported by other volunteers in advisory roles. These include the ALL Council, a group of elected members who meet once a […]

In the classroom Being a Languages Learner in a primary school   In many primary schools languages are being squeezed due to the pressures of the core curriculum, so it is important that we use the limited time we have creatively to make the learning experience enjoyable and accessible to all our pupils as well […]

The Debate on Vocabulary What’s in a Word?   Historical context and the relative importance of vocabulary teaching. It would seem obvious that learning new words is a vital part of language learning and yet, over the 30+ years that I have been teaching languages (at all key stages) I’ve seen the importance afforded to […]