Sentences with phrase «in modern foreign languages»

Last year's results in modern foreign languages were very stable, with only small changes in the proportions achieving each grade compared to the previous year.

In doing so, these interactive teaching methods help to develop a more creative approach to learning with the ultimate aim of a wider interest in modern foreign languages within the classroom.

«By introducing the Ebacc, we have stopped the decline in modern foreign languages seen in the last decade, where 200,000 fewer GCSE students studied a modern language in 2010 than in 2002.

Over a third of colleges (39 %) have dropped courses in modern foreign languages, with A-levels in German, French and Italian being the main casualties.

DfE video presentation: Using a toy to facilitate and vary question - and - answer sessions in modern foreign languages with younger secondary school students.

Malcolm Trobe, interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: «We are concerned about the continuing decline in entries to A levels in modern foreign languages, and other «minority» subjects such as music and design and technology.

The proportion of candidates awarded A * in these modern foreign languages increased (0.1 percentage point in French, 0.7 percentage point in German; and 1 percentage point in Spanish).

Private schools have pledged to support a new national teacher training centre for linguists to stave off a «crisis in modern foreign language skills», writes Jess Staufenberg.

It brings together effective communication in a modern foreign language (French or Spanish), cultural training, leadership skills, and language teaching methods.

The government is yet to publish the findings of a consultation into the viability of the pledge, but concerns have also been raised about teacher recruitment to meet potential demand in EBacc subjects, particularly in modern foreign languages.

Grade boundaries in modern foreign language (MFL) A-levels will be adjusted to take «native speakers» into account for the first time, allowing more pupils to achieve higher grades and suggesting a historic under - grading in the subject.

TDA chief executive Stephen Hillier said the UK had lagged behind the rest of Europe in modern foreign languages for too long.

The announcement was made by Mike Buchanan, chair of the Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference (HMC), who said that the collaboration would «help arrest further decline in modern foreign languages».

A spokesman for the exam regulator, Ofqual, said: «We are committed to ensuring that all GCSEs, AS - and A-levels, including those in modern foreign languages, are sufficiently valid, produce fair and reliable results and have a positive impact on teaching and learning.

Commenting on the investment, Leora Cruddas, director of policy at the Association of School and College Leaders, argued: «We welcome the Mandarin programme because it is an investment in education and in a modern foreign language.

Leora Cruddas, director of policy at the Association of School and College Leaders, said: «We welcome the Mandarin programme because it is an investment in education and in a modern foreign language.