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How to teach languages through art
Words: Nicky Mcintosh, Learning Team Leader, Culture Coventry 'What can you see in this picture?' 'Can you find the words in your dictionary?' 'What is she thinking?' ‘Portrait of Miss Ashwanden in Cookham’ by Stanley Spencer featured in the teaching MFL through Art...
Back to School Sale!
Back to School Sale! Head of Languages Handbook Reduced to just £10.99 for one week only! Our best selling publication, ideal for anyone with a MFL leadership role in a secondary school, is available for just £10.99 (was £14.99) for ONE WEEK only! ...
Investing in CPD for language teachers
Thinking about language CPD for yourself, or are you a head of department or head teacher looking to support your language teachers with CPD for this academic year? Language World 2018 is an ideal event to boost and invest in teachers' professional development. This...
Celebrating World Teacher’s Day
Wishing all teachers a very happy World Teacher's Day! To celebrate we would like to highlight some of the fantastic work from teachers across the globe. Read about French teacher Meghan Chance who teaches French in New York. Compare your typical teaching day to...
FREE – KS2 cross-curricular resources when you join ALL as a Primary Group Member in October
The Association for Language Learning (ALL) is pleased to offer the following bonus resource worth £12.99 to all new Primary Group members joining ALL in October: Le Camp du Drap d’Or (Field of the Cloth of Gold) The resources comprise a six-week module for years 4 or...
ALL is developing its international focus
The Association for Language Learning (ALL) is proud to have served the needs of the language teaching community in the UK for over two decades, and long may it continue to do so! But were you aware that increasingly ALL has an international focus to its work, and...
Rosemary Evans Bequest Award
Are you a recently qualified early years / primary teacher (QTS gained since June 2015)? Are you keen to reflect on your professional development as a classroom practitioner? Are you keen to get something published in an educational journal and add it to your CV? If...
Thinking of getting published for the first time?
ALL offers many ways to help you get published for the first time. Our newly launched 'Learning from the Classroom', in particular, is a platform to connect and share research and practice by teachers. ALL President Anna Lise Gordon says "Learning from the...
Come and support ALL at the Language Show London
ALL will be exhibiting once again at the newly relaunched Language Show London, taking place at the Business Design Centre in Angel Islington from 13-15 October 2017. We will be proudly supporting the Primary Languages Base, where you can hear about the Language...
Click, Connect Learn Funding for Language Futures
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. In order to explore how digital technology could work to...
Engaging with your languages association – a good idea for a primary teacher
Are you a primary languages teacher or do you work with a primary colleague trying to introduce and develop primary languages? Yes? Then the Association for Language Learning (ALL) offers a great primary group membership package for just £50 per year. We have just...
Reaching out to teacher researchers
We are excited to announce that 'Learning from the Classroom' our new ALL initiative to connect and share research and practice by teachers for the benefit of members is now live. Anna Lise Gordon, ALL President says, "Learning from the Classroom is an exciting way to...
Funding for teacher training
TSST MFL application round Teacher subject specialism training (TSST) – secondary modern foreign languages - Opportunity to apply for grant funding Schools and sixth form colleges can apply for grant funding to design and deliver teacher subject specialism training...
ALL Council – mobilising for 2017/18 and beyond
Saturday 16 September marked an important date for the Association for Language Learning (ALL). The ALL Council held its annual meeting to review the previous year's activity of its Task & Finish Groups and spent time identifying its priorities for the academic...
Do you know an inspirational primary or secondary language teacher?
Do you know a teacher who inspires pupils through superb teaching and supports colleagues by sharing their expertise and ideas? ALL Language Teacher of the Year Award ALL is now looking for nominations in two categories for the 2018 awards – which are now open to...
Submit a talk/workshop proposal for Language World
The Association for Language Learning is delighted to announce that its call for submissions for talks and workshops is now open for Language World 2018. Language World 2018 will take place at Jurys Inn, Hinckley Island, Leicestershire, from 23-24 March 2018. It is a...
Getting to know ALL’s President Elect
Introducing Jane Harvey, ALL's President Elect. The President Elect sits on the Association’s board of trustees, its Management Board, which comprises three elected Officers: Honorary Membership Officer; President Elect; President and up to five invited Trustees. As...
ALL comments on the 2017 GCSE results
Anna Lise Gordon, President of the Association for Language Learning comments “Firstly, on behalf of the Association, I would like to congratulate all GCSE students and their teachers on their results, and recognise how much hard work goes into achieving these grades....
ALL comments on AS and A Level results 2017
AS and A Level results were published on 17 August 2017 by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ). Representatives from ALL attended the presentation given by Michael Turner, Director General of the Joint Council for Qualifications, in London today. Ofqual...
Languages Today – Shared Voices
Our Autumn 2017 issue will be about using the power of multilingualism to bring people together, and will be out at the beginning of September. In this issue, we celebrate multilingual learners and look at ways to include speakers of more than one language in class....
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