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Saturday, 14 October 2023

What Role Will Role Plays Play in deciding between exam boards?

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 Looking at the new GCSE specifications from AQA and Edexcel, it's the Speaking Exam that draws most of my attention. Because I feel thi...
Sunday, 8 October 2023

Colonial Curriculum

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 At the same time as " the knowledge curriculum " is promoting the study of authoritative voices, the "best" of great li...
Saturday, 7 October 2023

Is the new GCSE a Conversation Killer?

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 The new GCSE is a reaction to the 2009-2017 GCSE which ruined language learning for a generation. In that exam, Controlled Conditions spea...
Sunday, 27 August 2023

AI and Language Learning

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Red flag. Since I wrote this, I have discovered that Google Bard's sexism is also accompanied by colonialism and racial stereotypes. Of ...
Tuesday, 22 August 2023

Coming up on the horizon already: The new GCSE

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 How much of a roadblock is the new GCSE going to be? There are several things to look forward to over the next few years. The NCLE hubs wor...
Thursday, 1 June 2023

Thoughts on Dictation

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 The new GCSE is going to include a Dictation test as part of the listening exam. This is in order to test pupils' knowledge of the soun...
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Friday, 19 May 2023

Writing: Criteria, Cognitive Load, and Feedback

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 When we ask our pupils to do writing, we are not just testing their recall. We are working on how well they can deploy their French in orde...
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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...