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ALL Primary Special Autumn 2019
Primary Languages - help is on hand This special Autumn Supplement from the Association for Language Learning is intended for Language Coordinators and Headteachers in Primary Schools. The arrival of the new OFSTED Framework may well be an impetus for you to be...
Juvenes Translatores
Juvenes Translatores is a translation competition for secondary schools. Each selected school can enter 2-5 participants born in 2002. Participants can choose to translate from any official EU language into any other official EU language. The competition will be...
The Language Show
The exhibition for language learners, language teachers and everyone who loves languages. Now in its 31st year, Europe’s largest language event returns to Olympia on 15-17 November 2019 offering outstanding talks, classes and features. The latest products and...
Ofsted pilot inspection : the ‘deep dive’ into Languages at a Primary School
In March my school took part in a pilot inspection for the new Ofsted framework that has now come into effect (September 2019). The inspection was a voluntary trial so we had received notification of dates but did not know any further details until our head received...
Japanese Synchronous Online Course
Target group: 6th Formers Duration: 10 weeks Date: Sat 19th of Oct 2019 - Sat 21st Dec 2019 Starting in October, the course will consist of 2 face-to-face sessions and 8 online "live" lessons. As part of the course, learners will explore the Japanese language through...
Celebrating the European Day of Languages
“Jambo!” “Hola!” “Привет!” Walking through the corridors of our 11-16 all-inclusive school in Somerset, you could hear the sounds of dozens of languages, with excited primary students hanging on every word of the secondary student who was teaching them. As the bell...
Host a Teacher from Germany: free CPD opportunity
There are just over two weeks left to register to host a teacher from Germany for 1, 2 or 3 weeks in spring/summer 2020. What are the benefits? 1. Choose your own timings - it's flexible and fully funded! 2. Enhance the intercultural dimension in your school community...
Culture in a box resource
Get started on eTwinning before 15 September to receive a free 'Culture in a Box' to your school! Why sign up? With more than 670,000 teachers from all over Europe collaborating on the eTwinning platform, it's a good time to introduce the world to your classroom....
Teachers Learning to Teach languages
What is TELT? TEachers Learning to Teach languages (TELT) aims to increase and improve language provision in primary schools. Teachers simultaneously learn a new language and the skills to teach that language in the classroom. TELT seeks to: Make language training...
ALL comments on GCSE results
ALL President Jane Harvey comments on this year’s results: “I really want to congratulate all the students and their hard working language teachers across Wales, Northern Ireland and England who are collecting their GCSE results today. It is pleasing to see that...
ALL Literature Project
The ALL literature project wiki aims to support language learning through literary texts. Recent posts include songs (spring 2019) and culture (summer 2019). For autumn 2019, we have added Grammar emerging from authentic texts. Here, you can find ideas for...
THE LANGUAGE MAGICIAN for Secondary
Secondary colleagues will have heard previously of the award-winning Erasmus+ project THE LANGUAGE MAGICIAN through ALLNet, but may not know of its usefulness in the Secondary phase. It is a game designed for Primary-age language learners which also produces data for...
Pop-Up World of Languages – the first UK pop-up museum of languages!
Discover the weird and wonderful world of languages! The UK has a museum for dog collars and lawn mowers, but not for languages. This autumn we are launching our innovative Pop-Up World of Languages to fill this gap. Join us on a journey through our three zones to...
ALL comments on A-level results 2019
ALL President Jane Harvey comments on this year’s results: “Congratulations to all A-level language students and their teachers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on their results today. Language learning enables students to understand other cultures and is a life...
Resource Developers Needed
The NCELP (National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy) are seeking one or more part time 'Resource Developer(s)' to create research-informed teaching materials for secondary school learners of German and French (and ideally also Spanish). This post could...
The Last Word – Championing your language
ALL as an educational charity exists to support the teaching and learning of all natural languages, and one aspect of our work is to raise the profile of languages through our advocacy, publications, events and website. The Association believes that all languages are...
The OASIS database: Making research in language learning and teaching accessible
Up-to-date research findings can be difficult to access. Paywalls stop people outside universities and research institutes from accessing published academic papers. And even if papers are openly available they are often written in highly technical language making...
Language World 2020 – Save the Date!
Language World is ALL's flagship annual conference and CPD event Language World offers a packed programme with speakers from across the languages sector. It's an exhibition: a large and varied exhibition showcasing the latest in language learning resources and...
German Teacher Awards 2019
The annual German Teacher Award and the ‘Sommerfest der deutschen Sprache’ pay tribute to and recognise the best and most committed champions of German in primary and secondary schools across the UK. This year's ‘Sommerfest’ was attended by over 250 teachers and...
Foreign language learning more vital than ever in post-Brexit world
Sean Harford HMI (National director, education, Ofsted) says studying modern foreign languages is an essential part of a broad, balanced curriculum. Read the article in this week's Guardian.
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