Guest blog by Kerry Phipps, MFL French and Spanish teacher and ALL Council member Teaching background After studying French and Art at university, then completing a Masters in French Translation, I became a primary teacher with responsibility for French throughout the...
Language Futures is an exciting, highly personalised and innovative approach to languages teaching and learning. It has been designed to foster deep learner engagement and enable students to take responsibility for their own learning, which they are encouraged to...
Words: Clodagh Cooney, ALL Council Member, Language Futures Project Manager, Nottingham Primary Hub What is independence in language learning and how can it be encouraged? In Languages Today issue 22 on Learner Independence, Terry Lamb (Professor of Languages and...
Words: Victoria Mitchell, ALL Before October half term, I had the opportunity to deliver training for the Language Futures initiative as part of a school’s INSET day. Sir Edmund Hillary Primary School in Worksop, Nottinghamshire were keen to get underway with the...
Guest Blog by Crista Hazell (Head of Department and ALL Council member) How to get more from the homework you set? What specific activities can be given as homework which will be effective? Homework or out of school learning, gets a bad reputation. I’ve always seen...
