📣 TEACHER VOICE MATTERS 📣 We are back! 💧✨ Very excited to announce our latest free webinar taking place NEXT WEEK on Tuesday 8th November - details below. Make sure you grab your free ticket via the link in the next tweet! #primarylanguages #mfltwitterati

Out this week (as far as I am aware): the AQA draft sample materials for the new GCSE in French. #mfltwitterati aqa.org.uk/news/update-on…

Pearson Edexcel draft new French GCSE also published here: pearson.com/uk/educators/s…

Heartening to see ambitious investment in MFL: thank you to Nick Gibb & DfE for recognising the value of languages. But insisting that pedagogical methods are tied to an unconvincing review back in 2016 is unnecessary & could be counter-productive. tes.com/magazine/news/…

Ironic that the Minister so focussed on undoing what he saw as the destruction of standards through progressive practices has overseen the biggest & most deliberate downgrade of standards in MFL, through his new GCSE. Nick Gibb tes.com/magazine/analy…

#mfltwitterati ISMLA Conference 28th January, Westminster School, London. Info and sign up here: ismla.co.uk/ismla-events/i…

So the PM is confident enough to announce that all pupils will be learning Maths till they are 18. But without knowing what aspects of Maths, who will teach it, or within what framework. The latest in a series of cart-before-horse education policy announcements.

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A great commentary on NCELP and its successor. I'm excited for the new provider: here's to dogma-free capacity building which draws upon the full richness of research and empowers teachers with agency & ideas rather than scripts, lists and rules.

NCELP has gone - but what is it's legacy? For a short time, it permeated all aspects of MFL policy: tunnel-vision Ofsted research review which was largely slated by academics, and a flawed new GCSE which reduces standards & threatens to undermine uptake. DfE needs to press pause.

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So presumably Ofsted & co would criticise Charles's language skills and whomever taught him because he didn't pronounce Familie correctly? Good example of the problem with the obsession with phonics.

Alongside MMLL Cambridge, Oxford MML Schools Liaison & The Queen's Translation Exchange, I'm delighted to announce we have launched Think Like a Linguist. It's designed to harness expert knowledge at Cambridge University & University of Oxford to change how students think about language learning: queens.ox.ac.uk/research-at-qu…

ismla.co.uk/ismla-events/i… Grsat conference for teachers of Spanish- Sat 24th June in Manchester at Instituto Cervantes by ISMLA #mfltwitterati

We are delighted to announce the launch of the 2023 edition of 'A German Classic'. This year's text is Franz Kafka's Der Heizer. All info here: ogn.ox.ac.uk/content/german… German at Oxford Henrike Lähnemann 📯 moving to bsky Let's Transform MFL UK-German Connection Oxford MML Schools Liaison German@Reading Modern Languages Outreach and Engagement

Good news! We’ve been accredited by Ofqual. The new GCSE French specification and sample assessment materials are available on our website ready for first teaching in September 2024. #GCSEFrench #MFLTwitterati