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All the latest news from the world of languages and language teaching.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 […]
Boys studying modern foreign languages at GCSE in schools in England
A new report from the British Council with forewords from Sir Ciarán Devane, Chief Executive of the British Council and David Laws, Chief Executive of the Education Policy Institute, this new report comes in two parts; Part 1. Schools that are beating the odds. Detailing key findings, recommendations in trends in boys’ language GCSE entry […]
Teacher Briefing 17: Theme: Current initiatives concerning Languages
Learning foreign languages should be compulsory, says report.
A report, published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) published a report citing that only 32% of young people in the UK say they are able to read or write in more than one language, compared with 79% of their peers in France and more than 90% in Germany. Read the article in the […]
Why German in the Primary School?
We had a trial Ofsted inspection last year, and languages was picked as a Deep Dive subject. When I was talking to my line manager beforehand, I told him that the first question would be ‘Why German?’ He was sceptical, but I was proved completely right! I think children learn best from teachers who are […]
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Events at the Edinburgh Festivals In Edinburgh this year there will be many international events taking place, containing interesting performances from different nationalities – providing a great place to learn about different cultures and their history: Directed by Vladimir Pankov, this story is both moving and inspirational. The War is about a group of poets […]
Institution-wide languages programmes in UK universities
Billy Brick (Coventry University, Coventry) INTRODUCTION Most UK HE institutions provide the opportunity for students to study a foreign language or languages alongside their main degree subject. Institution-wide Language Provision (IWLP) sometimes referred to as Languages for All or University-wide Language Programmes typically cater for students who want to study a language alongside their main […]
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