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MFL Study Days at the British Film Institute
Browse and book tickets for our primary and secondary school events at venues around the UK BFI are currently developing partnerships with cinemas and cultural venues around the UK to bring events from the Film & Media Studies and MFL schools programme to venues...
DfE Announcement of review into content and assessment of GCSE Languages specifications
Tuesday 05 November: The government has today announced a review of GCSE modern foreign languages content in order to increase their accessibility. This is following an announcement by Ofqual of the decision to make an adjustment in the grading standards for GCSE...
Press Release – Ofqual decision to adjust grading standards in GCSE French and German
ALL welcomes Ofqual’s decision to make an adjustment in the grading standards for GCSE French and German from June 2020 to align these subjects with GCSE Spanish. It is a modest adjustment but will be noticeable in schools and will help to make French and German...
FREE CPD for teachers of Spanish
Are you a GCSE or A-Level Spanish Teacher? Would you like to improve your teaching skills? Teacher Subject Specialism Training for GCSE/A Level Spanish looks at the key aspects of the new GCSE and A level programme, with a focus on the four language skills, on using...
Report: Global Learning in the Curriculum, British Council
Words: Crista Hazell (ALL Council Member) A truly inspired conference held at the British Council offices in Spring Gardens with a wide range of inspirational forward-thinking professionals from across the educational sector and subject associations to share their...
Report: Inside Government MFL Conference 2019
Words: Crista Hazell (ALL Council Member) A whole day secondary focused conference held at the National Congress Centre. There were many speakers including politicians, one of the three exam boards as well as the Languages Pedagogy Review lead, the National Centre for...
ALL webinars
Please explore the ALL London website for a range of webinars starting this November. These include: Webinar with Steven Fawkes - ALL roadshow autumn 2019, November 05 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm. Webinar with Nick Mair - Stepping stone qualifications to GCSE, Noveber 12 @...
ALL’s new Steering Group for CLIL
Around the world teachers are exploring the motivational impact on learning that can be stimulated by combining interesting and diverse subject content with learning another language. The developments take all sorts of forms, from small- to large-scale and involve a...
Language Learning Journal … in case you missed it
The Language Learning Journal (LLJ) is ALL’s flagship research journal, published on our behalf by Routledge. It provides a forum for scholarly contributions on current aspects of foreign language and teaching. The LLJ is an international, peer-reviewed journal that...
Pop-Up World of Languages – the first UK pop-up museum of languages!
19 October 2019, 10:00 — 27 October, 16:00 ‘Escape At The Grafton’, The Grafton Centre, Cambridge, CB1 1PS 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 an innovative...
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...
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