The language is introduced with short parallel texts in English and French where
the pupils find the language they are going to need for the rest of the lesson.
Not exact matches
The study was carried out by Education Datalab and
found that schools in the North East had the highest scores in the country for 2015, on the grounds of «contextual value», which assesses
pupils progress in addition to factors such as gender, ethnicity, depravation, special educational needs and whether English is a second or first
language.
Pupils find and scan the codes to discover
language related questions.
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.
The review
found less than half of
pupils take a GCSE in a
language, with only one third of
pupils achieving a good GCSE grade in a
language.
Only 4.4 per cent of
pupils took a GCSE in two
languages, the report
found, which «threatens the continued supply of teachers and professional linguists».
The report said that therapists were not always
found for
pupils; Patel agreed and said educational psychologists and speech and
language therapists were especially challenging to recruit.
The researchers also
found doubts among secondary teachers about the ability of primary schools to deliver «a worthwhile level» of
language knowledge that
pupils could apply when they moved on to study for GCSEs.
It
found that
language teachers felt attracting
pupils to study
languages after the age of 16 was a «challenge».
Analysis by the National Association of Headteachers also
found that 77.7 per cent of
pupils who entered four out of the five EBacc components were missing the
languages component in 2016 (up from 67.4 % in 2015).
Ofqual
found that more
pupils who speak other
languages were taking MFL subjects, while fewer
pupils overall took up a
language at A-level standard.
It also
found that
pupils in selective schools were slightly less likely to have a first
language other than English than
pupils in the wider population (13.1 per cent compared to 15.7 per cent) and less likely to have SEN (4.0 per cent compared to 12.7 per cent).