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Speaking endorsement for MFL GCSE 2021

November 18, 2020November 18, 2020Katherine Jefferies

Last week we saw the final criteria for the MFL speaking endorsement published by Ofqual ( link here ). For our colleagues in English this is not a new thing, but for us in MFL it is a novelty and as such it has raised a certain amount of uncertainty and concern. How can we decide fairly […]

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The Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators

November 12, 2020November 12, 2020Katherine Jefferies
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The Translation Exchange at the Queen’s College, Oxford, launched a brand-new competition for schools in September 2020. The competition is inspired by the work of the translator Anthea Bell OBE (1936–2018), one of the finest and most influential literary translators of the 20th and 21st centuries. The competition takes place in March 2021, but we […]

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4 ways to make every minute of every lesson count in the time of Covid-19

November 4, 2020November 4, 2020Katherine Jefferies
Drop Everything and Read blog

This return to school has been like no other. As usual, we have had to face confirmation of Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve after a long summer break; but this time, with the addition of those months in lockdown. And, although happy to be back in school, we have found ourselves having to work extra hard not […]

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Top 4 take-aways from the 2019 MFL GCSE exams

September 19, 2019March 27, 2020Katherine Jefferies
MFL GCSE exam insight

Having read the examiners’ reports on GCSE Spanish, French and German, here are my key takeaways in terms of what to work on this year: Listening Revise basic vocabulary It was disappointing to see that students seemed to have forgotten basic vocabulary; this was seen at both tiers. For example, students did not know the […]

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The Ofsted Framework – A pleasing step in the right direction

June 13, 2019June 13, 2019Katherine Jefferies

This month we welcome Rebecca Nobes, Head of Spanish to the Teaching Languages Today Blog with her reflections on the Ofsted Framework… Having read the new Ofsted Framework, all in all I am feeling positive. I’m really encouraged by the way in which it outlines all the things that they will not be expecting early […]

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What we learned from the AQA A Level MFL examiner reports?

November 22, 2018Katherine Jefferies

Following on from our blog post on the AQA GCSE examiner reports, we’ve taken a detailed look at the AQA A Level examiner reports for French, Spanish and German – here’s what we found out. Enthusiasm pays off… For the IRP (Individual Research Project) or photo activity, students who had chosen a topic they were […]

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Teaching language skills through literature

October 24, 2017October 23, 2017Katherine Jefferies

This week we’re delighted to have Dr Simon Kemp, Associate Professor of French at Somerville College, Oxford to the OUP MFL blog as our guest blogger. Teaching language skills through literature How can you best bring language and literature teaching together? On literature-heavy undergraduate courses like the one that I teach, there’s a danger that students feel […]

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Keep some of the old but add new technology to it!

February 9, 2017February 13, 2017Oxford Languages Team

When I visited a local school recently I was talking to Martin Heeley who has been working on and developing some ideas I gave him during the course. As we have a focus on the blog about what to keep of the ‘old ways’ and what technology we can harness cheaply or even free to […]

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Welcome back 2014/5

August 28, 2014June 29, 2015Liz Black

I hope that you had a really good break over the summer. The holidays are a welcome break from routine and pressure, aren’t they? For a number of reasons we decided not to go abroad this year, one being that I had just returned from two weeks in Germany with the UK German Connection . I was a […]

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