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Whether you’re a literary fiction aficionado or a crime and thriller fanatic, here are 10 novels by Scandinavian authors that deserve to be on your bookshelf. Scandinavian fiction covers a huge range. If you want to get your adrenaline pumping, you can’t do better...

Alan Moys, 1935 - 2022   ALL Fellow, Lid King, reflects on the passing of a great friend to language teachers - Alan Moys.   It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of Alan Moys on January 4. Sadness for a good friend and mentor, but also for...

Alan Moys and Nala Harmer Parr adds his tribute to one of NALA’s founder members   Alan is best known for his role as Director of CILT, but it would be wrong not to consider his considerable contribution to Nala, the National Association of Language Advisers. I...

In March 2020, as the Covid pandemic took hold, the language learning app Duolingo reported double its usual number of sign-ups. Stuck inside under lockdown orders, people had time on their hands and were looking for ways to occupy it. It wasn’t long before I joined...

Researchers in Japan used magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of secondary school students during a task focused on musical observation. They found that students trained to play music from a young age exhibited certain kinds of brain activity more strongly...

Interest in anime, gaming and K-pop is fuelling a boom in Korean and Japanese university degrees that is helping to revive modern languages departments struggling with falling enrolments. Acceptances to study Korean more than trebled from 50 to 175 between 2012 and...

New visa requirements mean that EU students will go elsewhere, writes Karen Brandes, while Brigid Hoffmann worries about the consequences for language learning.   The slump in school trips to the UK described in your article does not surprise me at all (‘Almost...

Groups from the continent are going elsewhere, tour operators say, deterred more by passport and visa rules than the pandemic.   Post-Brexit changes to Britain’s immigration rules have triggered an unprecedented collapse in bookings for school trips from the...

Bilingual people engage the same brain region that monolingual individuals use to put together words—even when combining different languages.   Billions of people worldwide speak two or more languages. (Though the estimates vary, many sources assert that more...

Schools in Wales could have fewer than 100 French and German GCSE entries by 2030, a report has found.   The Language Trends Wales report, which reviews foreign language teaching, called for a national strategy on languages amid a drop in GCSE entries.   The...

Children who do not learn other languages risk missing out on career opportunities and life experiences, according to linguists in Wales.   The Language Trends Wales report, which reviews foreign language teaching, called for a national strategy on languages amid...

Modern languages in the UK is at a crucial stage in its development, write Institute of Modern Languages Research director Professor Charles Burdett and Professor Claire Gorrara, dean of research and innovation at Cardiff University. If the discipline is to ‘thrive...

"While many factors contribute to making a school great, it can ultimately only ever be as good as the people that work there. It is therefore vital that teachers and school leaders get the support they need to change the lives of the children they teach. With the...