Sentences with phrase «modern foreign languages»

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.

Primary schools will, however, be increasing their investment into resources to support the teaching of modern foreign languages.

A website providing tips and resources for providing feedback when teaching modern foreign languages.

Our teaching is well regarded within the profession, and we are a specialist centre for the training of maths, physics, and modern foreign languages teachers.

Could also be used to support modern foreign language lessons.

«We have the euro economy in crisis - I think modern foreign languages are in the same place,» he said.

Schools should devote three hours of curriculum time per week to drag modern foreign languages out of «crisis», a new report has claimed.

Unlike in many other subjects, the new modern foreign languages GCSE is retaining a listening and speaking component.

Figures from this summer's GCSE entries show modern foreign languages are continuing to decline.

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.

Tom Sherrington, an education consultant and ex-head teacher, said schools were avoiding entering pupils for «high - risk» subjects such as modern foreign languages for fear of threatening their Progress 8 score.

We recognise that pupils have very different experiences of studying modern foreign languages at primary school and so we assume very little prior knowledge of French or Spanish on joining the school in Year 7.

Learning modern foreign languages at a young age is important and Lingotot will help many primary schools to deliver high quality MFL programmes, so we're delighted to be able to support this by providing recognition to those who complete these courses.»

Nick Gibb, the schools minister, has asked the Teaching Schools Council (TSC) to review modern foreign languages pedagogy in secondary schools and effective teaching practices in primary schools.

Foreign Languages Ideally, Waldorf schools include two modern foreign languages from different language groups in the curriculum such as Spanish and German or French.

The sector has been faced with numerous changes over the past few years including autonomy over financial management, movement towards academy status, a new curriculum for primary schools including computing and a renewed emphasis on modern foreign languages, to name just a few.

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

The support is part of the Welsh government's Global Futures plan to promote modern foreign languages for pupils and students.

Taking this one step further, we should ask the question whether modern foreign languages will have to continue to be taught at primary level if we are to achieve a good standard at secondary.

Whether your question is about booking a workshop or finding an exhibitor that supplies KS2 modern foreign language resources, BESA is the stand to visit.

Citizenship at GCSE has seen exam entries drop by 50 per cent, with A level general studies seeing a fall of 25 per cent and modern foreign languages continuing to see declined uptake.

Lingotot, the nation - wide modern foreign language education provider has become the first organisation of its kind to receive official accreditation for its courses within primary schools.

I am a qualified and experienced modern foreign languages teacher, and have taught in several secondary schools in and around Bath in the UK.

Encouraging modern foreign languages at primary level.

Since modern foreign languages were made compulsory for all KS2 pupils across England and Wales, primary schools, who often have no foreign language expertise, have increasingly turned to external providers to deliver their MFL programmes.

Christine Paxton, Head of Accreditation and Employer Services at NCFE, said: «We're pleased to have accredited Lingotot's modern foreign language programme for primary schools and we're looking forward to working with them.

The «dull» content of modern foreign languages lessons, which one delegate said was «intellectually insulting» to pupils, was being made worse by a decline in exchange trips that would otherwise bring vocabulary to life.

More modern foreign language (MFL) teachers are needed with the planned introduction of the compulsory English Baccalaureate (EBacc), in which every pupil currently in the first year of secondary school must study English, maths, science, history or geography and a language until they are 16.

Historically higher funded schools and better wages for graduates in London had also allowed modern foreign languages (MFL) departments to remain strong, she told Schools Week.

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.

«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.

There are not enough teachers to teach the mandatory Ebacc modern foreign language.

Schools Week has already revealed lots of modern foreign language problems, chiefly a lack of pupils entering and lack of teachers to teach them.

Andrew Hall, chief executive of the AQA exam board said modern foreign languages were in «long - term decline» at GCSE level.

Bauckham has advised the government before, both as the author of a review of modern foreign languages last year and as a member of the headteacher board for the south east of England and south London.

«I want to reverse the recent UK - wide decline in the take up of modern foreign languages here in Wales.

England's higher education funding council has confirmed it will examine modern foreign language provision amid concern about university budget cuts.

This super-SCITT will exclusively train modern foreign language teachers as more are desperately needed ahead of the planned introduction of the compulsory EBacc performance measure — for which 75 per cent of pupils are expected to study a language GCSE by 2022.

OCR already announced two years ago it would no longer offer modern foreign languages, after too few pupils took the awards to be viable.

«Independent schools, with other schools, have felt that the grading issue is making it harder to recruit good students to modern foreign language A-levels.

Entries for traditional modern foreign languages - French, German and Spanish - are up by 16.9 % compared with last year, reversing a long - term downward trend.

England's teacher training agency is urgently recruiting modern foreign language teachers to cope with a surge demand for the subject at GCSE.

NUT general secretary Christine Blower said: «Languages have long been among the subjects most severely affected by piecemeal changes to the secondary curriculum, especially the mistaken decision to make modern foreign languages optional.

Quiz on the importance of learning modern foreign languages.

Pupils» lack of enjoyment of language lessons was highlighted to delegates by Ian Bauckham, chair of the review of modern foreign language pedagogy in key stage 3 and 4 by the Teaching Schools Council published in November last year.

One of the defining features of the first ever Steiner Waldorf School, founded by Rudolf Steiner in 1919 in Stuttgart, is that pupils were introduced to modern foreign languages from Class 1.

«It is disappointing to hear, however, that there has been a decrease in the take - up of modern foreign languages at GCSE.»

Teachers are calling for the Department for Education to place more importance on modern foreign languages (MFL), according to new research published by Mary Glasgow Magazines, part of Scholastic's education group.