World Languages Project – Teacher Focus Groups
The Association for Language Learning is a partner in the World Languages initiative, a TDA-funded research project led by the Institute of Education, University of London in collaboration with the University of Sheffield, Language Networks for Excellence at the University of Wolverhampton and ALL. The main aim of the project is to recommend to TDA ways that capacity in the teaching of a more diverse range of languages in our schools can be achieved.
We’d like to invite teachers of both mainstream and less widely taught languages to a teacher focus group on the afternoon of 05 Jul 2010. There will be three focus groups in different locations on that date – in London, Wolverhampton or Sheffield.
As part of the development of a strategy for the teaching of world languages in schools, we would like to bring together groups of language teachers to discuss language teaching pedagogy with a particular focus on what is common and what is distinct about the pedagogies employed by teachers of different languages. How much can we talk about a generic language teaching pedagogy that can be applied across all languages? What are the implications of such a generic pedagogy for the organisation of languages in schools and of teacher education?
For more information please contact David Mallows ([email protected]).
To apply for a place at the focus group, please email David Mallows ([email protected]) with the following information: Name, language taught, secondary/primary, region.
Supply cover will be available to teachers who attend this event and all travel costs will be covered. We will get back to you to confirm your place and give you further details as soon as we can.