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Tribute to Kathy Wicksteed
Kathy receiving her ALL Fellowship Award from ALL president Anna Lise Gordon at Language World 2017 The first time I met Kathy was in 1997 when we were both interviewed for the same job at Campion School in Northampton. Kathy looked very striking in a bright red suit...
ALL Corporate Member of the Month – Institut français
Explore upcoming events as well as a range of resources from ALL Corporate Member of the month, Institut français EVENTS: 9-11 November 2018 - Language Show Live Whether you’re a language teacher, professional, or just love languages, attend three inspirational days...
Click, Connect, Learn – online language mentoring
The Click, Connect, Learn fund is funded by Nesta and was launched in order to explore how digital technology could work to make volunteer tutoring more accessible. In 2017, Language Futures was announced as one of three organisations to receive a grant to model,...
ELAPSE – Embedding Languages across Primary and Secondary Education
In September, we received some fantastic news from the British Council - ALL is part of a successful KA2 ERASMUS + application and along with our partners has been awarded funding for the ELAPSE project. ELAPSE (Embedding Languages Across Primary and Secondary...
NQTs at the heart of ALL – FREE publication for ALL NQT members
Nurturing yourself, personally and professionally Quality connections Time to grow as a MFL teacher Your career as a teacher has begun… This mini publication is designed to support you to become an outstanding MFL NQT with some suggestions that will set you well on...
Celebrating the European Day of Languages 2018
European Day of Languages 2018: a few ideas you may find useful! European Day of Languages takes place each year on 26 September. Activities: Council of Europe's official European Day of Languages site: Includes quizzes, trivia, materials and games. SCILT European Day...
ALL comments on GCSE results 2018
The Joint Council for Qualifications has today published the 2018 GCSE results for the UK. Highlights from the JCQ Media Release include: Significant reform to the system continues in England and Wales, with results in 23 subjects in England using 9-1 grading scale....
MFL Conference 2018
Despite the UK’s evolving employment and commercial landscape, it has become readily apparent that we are now facing a ‘skills deficit’ in the provision of Modern Foreign Languages within schools. This shortfall has emerged due a combination of factors; from...
ALL comments on A-level results 2018
The Joint Council for Qualifications has today published the 2018 national results for A levels and AS qualifications. Highlights from the JCQ Media Release include: A steady national picture with outcomes relatively unchanged as reformed qualifications continue to be...
Language Futures success at Grainville School
Language Futures is an exciting, highly personalised and innovative approach to languages teaching and learning which aims to broaden languages provision. It has been designed to foster deep learner engagement and enable students to take responsibility for their own...
Language Futures – Click, Connect, Learn celebrating Volunteers’ Week
Since 2013, Nesta and the Cabinet Office have been working together to increase the availability of volunteer-led tutoring within schools in order to improve the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils. To this end, the Click, Connect, Learn fund was launched...
Language Futures Research Study Findings
Language Futures is a highly personalised, innovative and creative approach to language teaching and learning suitable for both primary and secondary schools. It has been designed to foster deep learner engagement and enable pupils to take responsibility...
KCL: The Language of Politics Conference
The Department of European & International Studies invites pupils and teachers from state schools to participate in the interdisciplinary one-day conference The Language of Politics, to work in a sustained way with experienced academics in the fields of Politics,...
Hackney shows the MFL way at the House of Lords
Hackney Learning Trust was invited by Baroness Cousins, (Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Languages), to showcase their unique MFL provision to the committee at the House of Lords on Monday 19 March. A team made up of experts, consultants, teachers...
Workshops bring French poetry and music to life for pupils
Two academics from the University of Birmingham have developed ‘Songs without Borders’, a workshop programme to get Year 9/Key Stage 3 pupils interested in French, poetry and music, and combining all three to produce an original piece of art. The workshop programme,...
British business leaders believe speaking Mandarin Chinese will give students an advantage in their careers
More than three in four British business leaders believe speaking Mandarin will give school leavers a career advantage over their counterparts, according to a survey published this week by YouGov. The new survey, commissioned by the Mandarin Excellence Programme, aims...
German Teacher of the Year Awards 2018
German Teacher Award 2018 The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany has issued an invitation for nominations for the 2018 German Teacher of the Year Award. The winners will receive a personal prize and a certificate. The prizes will be presented during...
ALL encourages language teachers to ‘keep on reading’!
The Association for Language Learning (ALL) wants to encourage all language teachers to keep on reading. To this end ALL has published a number of article collections to pique your interest and give you a burst of inspiration. Our articles and publications are written...
‘Adopt a Class’ project at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB)
The Northern Ireland Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (NICILT), has recently launched a call for undergraduate students of French, Irish and Spanish at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) to ‘adopt a class’ of twelve year olds at their former post-primary school. The programme is excellent preparation for aspiring teachers as the students will […]
ALL Student Ambassadors attend APPG
Guest blog by ALL Student Ambassadors, Florence Brown and Tessa Stevenson, who attended the APPG meeting at the House of Lords An All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) meeting was held on Monday 29 January at the House of Lords on the topic of the cognitive benefits of...
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