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FLEUR: Foreign Language Education: Unlocking reading. End of project conference, 3 July 2018. Register at: french.reading@ox.ac.uk

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24th April 2018

We have been busy building on our work in reading,  and putting the pdcinmfl  Principle 5 to the test! So, if you:  are interested in the teaching of reading to…Read More >

New publications for use with pdcinmfl materials available

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6th August 2016

Two books have recently been published that link directly to the Principles: Improving Foreign language teaching: Towards a research-based curriculum and pedagogy, by Ernesto Macaro,  Suzanne Graham and Robert Woore….Read More >

A few ideas for implementing the principles in your language teaching

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9th July 2013

Speaking: One school  has been working on teaching learners to ask questions  and then giving them small group tasks  where they  have to ask lots of questions – ie. information…Read More >

Professional Development Clusters for MFL Teachers

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28th May 2013

Clusters of MFL teachers are now meeting in Reading/North Hampshire, Portsmouth/South Hampshire, Brighton/Sussex, Cheltenham/Gloucestershire, Oxford, South Oxfordshire and Birmingham. Another cluster is planned for Lincolnshire and Newcastle upon Tyne. The aim of…Read More >

5 quick questions for language teachers

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24th April 2013

Funding for the Professional Development Consortium in MFL comes to an end in May (though this website will continue to run). We’d like to find out how useful the website…Read More >

Proposed MFL Assessment Framework- what do you think?!

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18th March 2013

Thank you everyone for telling us how the Principles have made a difference to your teaching. But what about the alternative Assessment Framework which goes hand in hand with the Principles? We…Read More >

The Principles have made a difference to my teaching. Discuss!

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12th March 2013

We want to tell the decision makers for education in England how many of you have seen the benefit of using the Principles in your language classes. We want to…Read More >

Update – Assessment Framework for Languages

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25th February 2013

We have posted a revised draft of our alternative assessment framework for languages here. If you would like to try it out in your school, and feed back your experiences and…Read More >

Did you attend one of our workshops last year?

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4th February 2013

If you attended one of the workshops in Reading, Oxford, London, Bristol, Walsall or Nottingham last year, then you may have been using one, a few, or even all the…Read More >

Working with the Principles: Action Research possibilities

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11th December 2012

Many teachers and ITE tutors who attended our workshops in the summer have been working hard to use some or even all of the principles in their teaching this term….Read More >

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