The Links into Languages LinkedUp Award Scheme has produced a series of free resources for teachers of primary, secondary, and post-16 languages. From CLIL to transition and from alternative accreditation to progression, these materials have been created and tested by groups of practising teachers and others working with languages. The LinkedUp Award Scheme aims to tackle the challenges we are facing and make a difference to teachers and learners, with the emphasis on innovation and creativity. Funded projects cover all ages from 4 to 19, a wide range of different languages and ten themes which reflect national priorities for language learning. Find out more about the Award Scheme.
Over the next few months we will be highlighting a selection of these LinkedUp resources, and this week the focus is on Engaging hard to reach pupils. Here are a few to give you a taste:
Theme: Engaging hard to reach pupils:
Creative projects in languages:
http://www.linksintolanguages.ac.uk/resources/1889
Outside clients commissioned a product requiring the use of the foreign language, and pupils delivered the product, such as a children’s book for a primary school, a resource for a visitor attraction or jingles for a radio station. The participating schools analysed to what extent their curriculum is supportive of pupil creativity and independence.
Making primary languages our business:
http://www.linksintolanguages.ac.uk/resources/1950
A community of schools collaborated to engage reluctant and more committed language learners who designed language resources for primary, learned about methodology, planned lessons, and trialled them in partner primary schools. As a transition project this also provided opportunities for further language skills acquisition for primary languages teachers.
Literacy-led modern language learning:
http://www.linksintolanguages.ac.uk/resources/2370
This project focused on developing units of work in French and Spanish driven by the literacy outcomes of the related National Strategies units with a view to engaging disenchanted learners, and impacting on progress in literacy, particularly writing, through the development of engaging pedagogy and resources.
All of the LinkedUp projects can be accessed on www.linksintolanguages.ac.uk/linkedup.