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Want more students to learn languages? Win over the parents!
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MFL Foreign languages
  • May 3, 2022
Children more willing to learn languages at GCSE and A-level if parents have positive attitudes, research says
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MFL Foreign languages
  • May 3, 2022
Parents more influential over MFL success than teachers
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MFL Foreign languages
  • May 3, 2022
Modern foreign languages curriculum design courses: apply now
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum design
  • Apr 5, 2022
Ofsted MFL policy and evidence-informed curriculum
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MFL Foreign languages
  • Mar 13, 2022
In the balance: the artful mix that goes into becoming a Modern Foreign Language teacher
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MFL Foreign languages Teacher training
  • Feb 23, 2022
'Pure fantasy': GCSE language reforms under fire
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 18, 2022
Language GCSEs are being dumbed down under government reforms
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 15, 2022
Head teachers say non to language GCSE drive
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 15, 2022
GCSE languages overhauled to drill common words – but heads say it could make subjects narrow and ‘grinding’
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 14, 2022
Students in England will learn up to 1,700 frequently used words in French, German and Spanish GCSEs under new reforms
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 14, 2022
GCSE French, German and Spanish subject content
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 14, 2022
Reforms to encourage more students to take up language GCSEs
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 14, 2022
New assessments for GCSE French, German and Spanish
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Assessments MFL Foreign languages
  • Jan 14, 2022
‘Dumbing down’ row as GCSE language students to learn fewer words than five-year-olds
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 14, 2022
Plan for pupils to learn 1,700 words for language GCSEs gets go-ahead
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 14, 2022
ASCL comment on Ofqual decision on reform of Modern Foreign Languages GCSEs
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 14, 2022
New MFL GCSEs to avoid 'posh' and 'unfair' references
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 14, 2022
‘Risky’ MFL GCSE reforms get go ahead – but delayed for a year
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 14, 2022
Language associations, unions and exam boards unite in call for rethink of reform of GCSE Modern Foreign Languages
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MFL Foreign languages GCSEs Curriculum reforms
  • Nov 25, 2021
Teachers reject plans to have pupils learn 1,700 words for language GCSEs
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms GCSEs
  • Nov 25, 2021
Rethink ‘flawed’ MFL GCSE reforms, heads and exam boards urge
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MFL Foreign languages GCSEs Curriculum reforms
  • Nov 25, 2021
GCSEs: Heads and exam boards reject 'risky' MFL reforms
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MFL Foreign languages GCSEs Curriculum reforms
  • Nov 25, 2021
Speaking other languages ‘important’ for understanding different cultures and places, say over 70 per cent of Year 9 pupils in England
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Foreign languages
  • Nov 22, 2021
Modern Foreign Languages: Transition from primary to secondary
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MFL Foreign languages Transition
  • Nov 15, 2021
IOE Director on valuing a greater diversity of modern foreign language options
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MFL Foreign languages Diversity
  • Oct 21, 2021
Teach children Polish and Arabic to reflect ‘modern Britain’, schools minister says
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Foreign languages Curriculum reforms Robin Walker
  • Oct 18, 2021
A call for maths, humanities and a foreign language to be mandatory at A-Level
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A-levels Subject choice Curriculum Compulsory Maths Foreign languages Humanities
  • Oct 4, 2021
Calls for A-Level maths, humanities and a foreign language to be mandatory
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A-levels Subject choice Compulsory Maths Foreign languages Humanities
  • Oct 4, 2021
Maths, humanities and foreign languages should be compulsory for A-level pupils, report claims
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A-levels Subject choice Compulsory Humanities Maths Foreign languages
  • Sep 23, 2021
Language learning for success in an interconnected world
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Foreign languages PISA
  • Sep 20, 2021
Content and language integrated learning and extensive processing instruction: A useful partnership for language teaching?
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MFL Foreign languages
  • Sep 17, 2021
Progress in MFL: Preparing students the smart way
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MFL Foreign languages
  • Sep 15, 2021
British Council statement on modern foreign languages GCSE results
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MFL Foreign languages GCSEs
  • Aug 12, 2021
British Council statement on modern foreign languages A-level results
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MFL Foreign languages Results day
  • Aug 10, 2021
Six in ten UK adults wish they’d kept up the foreign language they studied at school
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Foreign languages
  • Nov 12, 2020
MFL 2021 - technical consultation on implementing confirmed changes
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GCSEs MFL Foreign languages
  • Oct 12, 2020
UK language students prepare for virtual year abroad in their bedrooms
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Foreign languages Foreign exchange trips Virtual learning
  • Jun 13, 2020
Learning foreign languages in primary schools
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MFL Foreign languages Primary Curriculum Subject choice
  • Mar 3, 2020
We need languages graduates to steer us through our post-Brexit troubled waters | Nicola McLelland
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Foreign languages Brexit
  • Jul 31, 2019
Learning maths in foreign language 'boosts MFL grades'
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MFL Maths Foreign languages GCSEs Immersive teaching
  • Jun 20, 2019
Language exams: how hard are they and is there a crisis?
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Languages Foreign languages Exams
  • May 11, 2019
Children find foreign languages so stressful they are being signed off by a GP, headteachers told
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Foreign languages Pupil absence NAHT
  • May 5, 2019
All kids will have to study a foreign language GCSE in a bid to boost Britain’s bilingual skills post-Brexit
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Brexit Foreign languages GCSEs Curriculum
  • Apr 18, 2019
Recruit teachers from Spain to teach modern foreign languages
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Spain Teacher recruitment MFL Foreign languages
  • Jan 15, 2019
New centre for excellence to boost modern foreign language skills
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Foreign languages MFL Language hubs
  • Jan 10, 2019
Revival hopes for language GCSEs with new centre of excellence
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Foreign languages Language hubs MFL
  • Jan 10, 2019
University of York to run £4.8m languages ‘centre of excellence’
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MFL Foreign languages
  • Jan 10, 2019
Why Ofqual won't be rescuing languages
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Foreign languages Ofqual GCSE A-levels
  • Nov 26, 2018
Quality of reading materials linked to foreign language ability in young people
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Reading Foreign languages Attainment
  • Nov 22, 2018
‘Teaching linguistics improves language skills’
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Linguistics Foreign languages
  • Oct 19, 2018
‘Teaching linguistics improves language skills’
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Linguistics Foreign languages
  • Oct 19, 2018
DfE seeks university language students to mentor year 9 pupils
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DfE Foreign languages
  • Sep 23, 2018
We can’t afford to let language teaching die
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Foreign languages Languages A-levels
  • Aug 17, 2018
A-level results: foreign languages suffer further slump
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A-levels Exam results Foreign languages
  • Aug 16, 2018

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