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AQA Modern Foreign Language Advance Information for GCSE’s in 2022

February 21, 2022February 21, 2022Oxford Languages Team

After reading the advance information for the 2022 June exam and the changes for 2022 published on the AQA website it appears that the main difference is to the writing exam format (Paper 4). In addition, there will be no requirement for vocabulary outside of the specification. The speaking, reading and listening exams remain the […]

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Inclusive Classrooms: How can we normalise different gender identities in the MFL classroom?

December 6, 2021November 26, 2021Oxford Secondary
Taking positive steps together

Sadie Thompson reflects on how to sensitively and respectfully make sure that we are including those students who are coming to terms with what their gender identity might be in the context of the #MFL classroom.

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Teaching strategies in KS3 that help students prepare for GCSE study

June 16, 2021July 29, 2021Liz Black
supporting your GCSE students

We all know that learning a language requires perseverance over time, so helping students to develop this is key to their success.   My years in teaching have been very varied. I’ve taught languages in primary and secondary schools and taught English and PE as well. Completing the gold Duke of Edinburgh award and returning […]

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How do we represent the modern family in MFL?

June 8, 2021June 9, 2021Oxford Languages Team

As a white, straight woman teaching in an outstanding school in an area with low levels of deprivation compared to the national average, it is more than apparent to me that I ought to be more than just aware of my ‘privilege’. Not only this, one of the main reasons I fell in love with […]

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The Modern Foreign Languages classroom provides the perfect antidote to lockdown

May 20, 2021May 20, 2021Oxford Languages Team

Following months of screen gazing, limited interaction and working in isolation, our students are ready to come to life and to feel the buzz that our lively and dynamic MFL methodology brings. A foreign languages lesson is a social event where interaction and communication are essential, just what our young people need, having been starved […]

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Initial thoughts on proposals for new GCSE content and assessment for MFL

April 22, 2021April 22, 2021Mariu Hurriaga
Curriculum

In 2019, the British Academy, the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Academy of Engineering produced a shared statement calling on the UK Government to adopt a national strategy for languages. They were concerned that the “UK’s poor language capacity has resulted in the loss of economic, social, cultural, and research […]

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Awarding Grades Summer 2021

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021Mariu Hurriaga

We will soon know Ofqual final decisions about awarding grades for GCSE and A Level students this summer. Their consultation closed just over a week ago and has received a record number of responses, not only from educators but also from the young people whose grades are at stake. In our profession we are all […]

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Speaking endorsement for MFL GCSE 2021

November 18, 2020February 9, 2021Oxford Languages Team

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

November 4, 2020February 9, 2021Oxford Languages Team
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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Supporting key year groups as they return to school

June 25, 2020May 6, 2022Oxford Languages Team

How do we support key year groups, now and on our return to school? and what do we do for those who can’t return at the same time? These are the questions we all wish we knew the answers to, aren’t they? The truth is I don’t think that anyone has the magic fix, that […]

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