A core feature of the Language Futures approach is Building a Learning Community which champions the role of mentoring as a way to support language learning in schools. As part of the approach, students receive personalised support from language proficient mentors...
In June 2016, the Teaching Schools Council (TSC) announced a review of modern foreign language pedagogy within secondary schools. The aim of the review was to produce an authoritative report on effective language pedagogy by Autumn 2016, drawing on the available...
Language skills are ‘more vital than ever’ if the UK is to remain ‘outward looking’ and ‘open for business’ in the run up to Brexit, new British Council research has revealed. In a survey of over 2,000 UK adults, the majority saw the ability to speak foreign languages...
How does language influence culture and identity? One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the ~7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear. But what is lost when a language falls silent? People and nature blur in the...
SCILT response to ‘Brexit and Languages’: “Now, more than ever, it is vital that we equip Scotland’s children and young people with the necessary skills that will allow them to operate globally”, says Fhiona Mackay, Director of SCILT. European...
