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Awarding Grades Summer 2021

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021Mariu Hurriaga Leave a comment

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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How languages changed my life: Farah Aden

February 19, 2020March 26, 2020Oxford Languages Team
How language-learning has changed my life: Luke Baxter

The last in our series of tales from language learning takes you on a journey of discovery to Somaliland. We hope these stories will help inspire your students to opt for a modern language (or two!).

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How languages changed my life: Stephanie Williams

January 21, 2020February 9, 2021Oxford Languages Team
How language-learning has changed my life: Luke Baxter

I believe that learning languages is not just about the language itself. You learn about culture and our differences and similarities, making you a more open-minded person in everyday life. I think this opens up different and exciting life opportunities, like being more willing to travel and live in different places.

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4 Key takeaways from the 2019 AQA A Level exams

October 4, 2019March 26, 2020Oxford Languages Team
MFL GCSE exam insight

By Rebecca Nobes The examiners’ reports are a really useful way to pick up on areas to develop in the coming year. Here are my main takeaways from this year’s reports: Paper 1: listening, reading and writing Summary task This was by far the biggest area of weakness. The main things for students to note […]

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Top 4 take-aways from the 2019 MFL GCSE exams

September 19, 2019February 9, 2021Oxford Languages Team
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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What are your thoughts on this year’s GCSE exams?

July 2, 2019February 9, 2021Oxford Languages Team 1 Comment
9-1 exams

We asked Rebecca Nobes, Head of Spanish and #MFLchat on twitter to share her reflections on this year’s AQA GCSE Spanish exams. We’d love to hear your thoughts too, so please share your thoughts in the comments below. The general consensus The general consensus among the MFL teaching community seems to be that this year’s […]

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Teaching language skills through literature

October 24, 2017February 9, 2021Oxford Languages Team

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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Five Tips to Make the Most of Language Teaching Networks – Part 2

June 28, 2017June 27, 2017Oxford Languages Team

It’s with an element of retrospective frustration that I regard my early years of teaching.  Keen to learn the trade and to teach as well as possible, I kept my head down, taught 5-6 lessons a day, planned and marked almost exclusively alone and all within the same four walls.  I often passed up opportunities […]

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