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Saturday, 15 April 2023

Novices and Experts

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 This morning, Isabelle Jones posted a link to this interesting blog post on Novice learners and Expert learners. As MFL teachers, we hav...
Wednesday, 12 April 2023

Where next for Languages?

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 I wonder what the new National Consortium for Languages Education is going to be like and what will it mean for us in the classroom? Just l...
Friday, 7 April 2023

Language World 2023 Part Two

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 In Part One of these two posts on my talk at Language World 2023, I looked at how we find ourselves in the middle of a polarised debate abo...
Saturday, 25 March 2023

Language World 2023 Part One

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 Fantastic to meet up with so many people at Language World 2023! As always at Language World , there's a wonderful atmosphere and an op...
Sunday, 5 March 2023

Top Tip for Dictation

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 This post is going to start out as a top tip for Dictation. And may end up being just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what Dictatio...
Saturday, 4 March 2023

Deep Learning or Distraction?

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 It's March, so it's time for the Year 7 French Exhibition at the local Windmill arts exhibition centre. Every pupil in Year 7 crea...
Sunday, 5 February 2023

Everyone's an expert now

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 This post isn't about politics. It's about economics. It has links to politics in the same way that education has links to politics...
Saturday, 4 February 2023

AQA GCSE Reading Exam Success

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Sometimes I can be a bit slow. Eating out in restaurants in Spain with teachers from our exchange school, I often would think, "Gosh, t...
Wednesday, 1 February 2023

Year 9 Spanish beginners - writing on the tables, telling their own stories

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 You may have been following my Y9 after school beginners Spanish lessons, as we work on narrating amusing stories about aquariums, theme pa...
Saturday, 28 January 2023

The lost art of teaching with the whiteboard?

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 I thought I had messed up with my Year 9 after school Spanish beginners. Last Monday we were doing the round the class  My brother touched ...
Friday, 20 January 2023

Join the Dots Speaking

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 Had fun (some of them rather too much fun) with Year 11 doing this easy and effective speaking activity today. It was at the end of the les...
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Saturday, 14 January 2023

Disciplinary Literacy and MFL

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 Disciplinary Literacy is one of the latest terms to be imported in to the school context. You can tell it belongs elsewhere because of the ...
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