Friday, 16 July 2021

Planning a sequence for learning languages

Here's a link to a video where I talk about the way I was trained to identify, present and practise 'patterns' in language learning - a process which I have found works well with novice language learners in a 'time poor' UK secondary school setting.

I have prepared a Microsoft Quiz to accompany it.  Here's a link to a duplicate.






Thursday, 15 July 2021

Ofsted Curriculum Review: Languages

UP-DATED 28TH JULY 2021 TO INCLUDE SUMMARY OF RESEARCH BEFORE THE OFSTED 'MAY' STATEMENTS.

 [COPIED AND PASTED FROM THE  DOCUMENT AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD].

●       My summary of the Ofsted document is written in Normal green Times New Roman

●       Italicised comment in square brackets are my personal comments

●      Each section is concluded with the Ofsted ‘high quality languages education may ..’ statements written in full, emboldened and larger font

●       The ‘may statements are followed by personal suggestions around questions that you may wish to consider so that you have your own narrative prepared - italicised

●       The # sign is to draw attention to a contrast / an opposing view.  I now realise that it should be a crossed-out equals sign and when I learn how to write that and replace all the hashtags, I will …!