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All the latest news from the world of languages and language teaching.Home Learning Help from our Corporate Members – Educandy
A generous offer from our friends at Educandy - all totally free. Educandy.com: Create interactive activities for free Are you looking to can create interactive learning games but have no time to learn how? With Educandy, you can create engaging activities in minutes....
Home Learning Help from our Corporate Members – PowerLanguage Schools
Free 3 month access to PowerLanguage online French Course details below: Learn a Language: French for Families The PowerLanguage team would like to offer their support to children and their families whilst they wait out the reopening of schools. Why not take this...
Online Teaching with Joe Dale
Joe Dale shared his wealth of knowledge and vast expertise to help teachers with an array of online tools and technology in light of school closures and the need for teachers to move to online teaching and distance learning. Read more here Joe shared a very detailed...
Teacher Briefing 20: Remote Working & Online Teaching
In the context of the current pandemic and governmental advice about avoiding / limiting personal contact or staying at home entirely schools and teachers are looking for ways of using technology and self-study approaches to help students continue their language...
Guidance for Parents published by DfE on 20th March 2020
The latest information and guidance for Parents on the closure of educational settings from the DfE available here
Guidance for Schools, published by DfE on 19th March 2020
For the latest information and guidance for schools, childcare providers, colleges and local authorities in England on maintaining educational provision please click here
From our Corporate Member: Linguascope
Educandy.com: Create interactive activities for free Are you looking to can create interactive learning games but have no time to learn how? With Educandy, you can create engaging activities in minutes. Just enter your words, or questions and answers and Educandy turns your content into cool interactive games. Once you’ve created an activity, a unique […]
From our Corporate Member: Sanako
An important message from our Chair of Trustees
Dear Colleagues, In light of the rapidly changing circumstances and advice around Covid-19, the decision has been taken by ALL Management Board to cancel or postpone all events, workshops or seminars up to Easter 2020 (12th April 2020) with immediate effect. We will be in touch whether or not events can be reinstated after Easter nearer […]
Invitation to take part in research project: Consolidating the evidence base for MFL curriculum, pedagogy and assessment reform at GCSE: An investigation of pupils’ and teachers’ views.
Interested in Research? Our colleagues at the University of Oxford are offering all MFL teachers and trainees the opportunity to share their views on MFL curriculum and specifically: what should be included in the MFL curriculum the sorts of activities through which that curriculum should be delivered and assessed Here is the invitation, in […]
Teacher Briefing 19: Effects of high-quality professional development on teachers and students
Theme: Effects of high-quality professional development on teachers and students Background: A new report (February 2020) from the Education Policy Institute undertakes a detailed review of the evidence on the impact of teacher professional development. The Key findings highlight the impact of high quality CPD on pupils’ learning outcomes on pupil attainment (in contrast with […]
The Bilingual Brain by Albert Costa
Need help inspiring learners, their parents and perhaps colleagues as to why they should be learning languages? Looking at the science of learning and why it’s never too late to learn a language, read the article and review of The Bilingual Brain by Albert Costa published in The Guardian.
Nine Fellows of the British Academy and how their subjects could shape the new decade.
What role do languages, humanities and social sciences have to play in shaping the 2020s? Nine Fellows of the British Academy, representing a wide range of academic disciplines, set out the challenges and opportunities they see for their subjects over the next decade. Read more from Neil Kenny et al on this inspirational blog post […]
Erasmus: What could happen to the scheme after Brexit?
The much loved and highly beneficial ERASMUS scheme is again under discussion. Read the latest article from the BBC here.
Ranked: The 100 Most Spoken Languages Around the World
Since publication, this article and infographics ranking the 100 most spoken languages around the world has been causing a bit of a stir amongst teachers, especially languages teachers, across the globe. If you love languages, read more here.
UK German Connections Scholarship Opportunity.
Interested in maintaining a strong connection with Germany? Then this is one way you can take advantage! The German Pupil Courses are two-week courses in Germany for UK pupils studying German. The German Pupil Courses are a great opportunity for young people to experience Germany, its culture, language and lifestyle first hand. We offer three […]
Teacher Briefing 18: Boys and Languages
Theme: Boys and Languages This is an overview of a very recent report led by the British Council and the Education Policy Institute published in January 2020. The report comes in two parts: Part 1 looks at the background, while Part 2 looks at schools’ strategies. Part 1 recommendations include: Government should clarify its position on […]
Listen, Speak, Repeat.
Sanako’s most recent newsletter was a superb read sharing details of how a number of schools and institutions are enhancing their MFL provision to have real impact through a variety of projects and there are case studies. From primary, two projects and how Julia Donaldson’s children’s favourite; The Gruffalo is having a huge impact upon […]
Professor Neil Kenny comments on the British Council Report on Boys studying modern foreign languages at GCSE in schools in England
Professor Neil Kenny, one of our Language World speakers has been commenting on the British Council released from Monday, focusing on the gender gap in modern foreign languages at GCSE. Read more here
Interested in DIPS? (Developing International Projects for Schools)
Seeking to internationalise your curriculum? Want to learn from Best Practice as well as sharing your own project experiences as well as extend your PLN of international educators? Then you might be very interested in this; Our partners at the LFEE Europe are seeking to develop more international projects for schools, if you are interested […]
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