DfE video presentation: Using a toy to facilitate and vary question - and - answer sessions in
modern foreign languages with younger secondary school students.
Not exact matches
Eventually the problem was solved, and specialists now read these ancient records
with almost the same ease
with which one reads a
modern foreign language.
During the visit representatives of the
foreign delegation together
with SFedU students worked on a joint project of involvement of company personnel in innovation activities, participated in the seminar «Innovative regional development», as well as in the IV International scientific conference «Prospects for the development of
language education in
modern educational space», organized by the Department of
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.
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.
Although this resource has been designed
with learners of English for speakers of other
languages in mind, it can easily be adapted for other teaching contexts such as
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.
These include work
with the Royal Shakespeare Company to help primary schools teach the bard, a project
with the Royal Society of Arts which used theatre to improve literacy and
language development, and a Welsh scheme which used music to teach
modern foreign languages.
The words «which have led to an insufficient proportion of our population educated in science, mathematics, and
modern language and trained in technology» were deleted, as was the reference to giving preference in student loans to those preparing to teach and those
with superior capacity in mathematics, science, engineering, or a
modern foreign language.
Specific provisions included scholarships and loans to students in higher education,
with loans to students preparing to be teachers and to those who showed promise in the curricular areas of mathematics, science, engineering, and
modern foreign languages; grants to states for programs in mathematics, science, and
modern foreign languages in public schools; the establishment of centres to expand and improve the teaching of
languages; help to graduate students, including fellowships for doctoral students to prepare them to be professors at institutions of higher learning; assistance for the improvement of guidance, counseling, and testing programs; provisions for research and experimentation in the use of television, radio, motion pictures, and related media for educational purposes; and the improvement of statistical services at the state level.
«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.