Secondary Warehouse
Modern Foreign Languages
The Secondary Subject Studies area of the Secondary Warehouse contains useful documents, media files and links to subject specific websites.
Please note that the SMART Education at Canterbury Christ Church University website contains a vast collection of useful Secondary Teaching Ideas and Interactive Websites links to support Subject Teaching.
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| KS3 Modern Foreign Languages: Why Learn a Language? Through a workshop experience, a Year 9 class of girls at Hodge Hill Girls School in Birmingham are motivated to consider taking a modern foreign language for either GCSE or as a vocational course. The programme features Languages for Life project officer Annie Bannerman and her team of undergraduates from Aston University's School of Languages and Social Sciences leading a workshop with a Year 9 group of girls. |  |
| KS3 Modern Foreign Languages: ICT and MFL In this programme, we travel to Birmingham to explore how ICT can be used to motivate pupils and enhance the teaching of modern foreign languages. Marie Daniels, head of MFL at Hodge Hill Girls' School, explains that she has changed her teaching methods since introducing ICT into her lessons. | |
| KS3/4 Modern Foreign Languages: Peer Assessment This programme looks at effective ways of developing and using peer assessment in the classroom, as demonstrated by the modern foreign languages (MFL) department at Prince Henry's Grammar School. Prince Henry's have chosen peer assessment as a focus through which they are enhancing language learning at Key Stage 3 and 4. | |
| KS3/4 Modern Foreign Languages - Attracting Lower Ability Pupils This programme visits Frederick Gough School in Scunthorpe to examine the issue of making language courses more appealing to lower ability pupils. When Andy Markham and his MFL department colleagues realised that less able students were switching off when studying for GCSE French or Spanish, they decided to try introducing more vocational language courses as an alternative. | |
| Modern Foreign Languages: Assessment for Learning This programme follows one modern foreign language (MFL) teacher demonstrating a range of these techniques in action, including giving assessment criteria to her class and using pupils to assess each others` reading and writing skills. MFL teacher Maria Vaughton from specialist language college Royds School in Leeds is joined post-lesson by AfL in MFL expert Nicola Hobbs from Prince Henry's Grammar School. | |
| Video Case Studies A selection of video case studies from Teachernet, about using ICT across the curriculum. There are 10 video case studies about creative writing, environmental description and reviewing grammar in French, accuracy and problem solving in German, presentations, preferences and opinions in Spanish and general information about school subjects, EAL and drop down menus. | |
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| National Curriculum Online Here you will gain access to useful resources and information relating to MFL in the National Curriculum. |  | |
| National Curriculum in Action This website uses pupils' work and case study materials to show what the National Curriculum in MFL looks like in practice. | | |
| QCA The MFL pages provide access to a range of information about the projects, publications, case studies and other activities. | | |
| VTC: ICT in Modern Foreign Languages This website uses pupils' work and case study material to show what the National Curriculum in modern foreign languages looks like in practice. | | |
| ITT MFL This site aims to provide essential training materials, introducing and updating tutors to current thinkng, research and professional networks | | |
| ICT in MFLs Information from BECTA for using ICT across the curriculum. This page provides downloadable resources and ideas on a wide range of areas including electronic flashcards, power point, electronic worksheets, and how to use online notice boards effectively. | | |
| BBC - Learning Resources Here you can find very useful resources, help and advice. | | |
| MFL Teacher Resources This is the Modern foreign languages Curriculum home page. Here we will find pupil and teaching resources to help deliver MFL into the classroom. | | |
| MFL Support Pack A support pack for using ICT and MFL from Teachernet. | | |
| Guidance on Teaching the Gifted and Talented Information from the QCA to help identification of gifted and talented pupils and strategies to promote their development and inclusion. | | |