This selection of links directs teachers to a selection of sources of material and ideas, which have direct relevance to the teaching of foreign languages within the current British school context.
The Professional Development Consortium in Modern Foreign Languages (PDC in MFL) gives teachers access to eight key principles of teaching and learning languages, which are based on research evidence. The Consortium was set up by researchers at the University of Reading Institute of Education and University of Oxford Department of Education. It is made up of classroom language teachers, teacher trainers and researchers in England. On the website you can access the research principles, resources and strategies that relate to writing.
Genre pedagogy: Language, literacy and L2 writing
Second language writing and research: the writing process and error analysis in student texts
Teaching writing to low-proficiency EFL students
ALL Connect materials
Don’t forget to access the CPD modules and follow up resources for ALL Connect KS2 Writing, ALL Connect KS3 Translation and KS3 Extended Writing.
Links into Languages: There are also really excellent ideas and resources available from the Links into Languages Linked Up projects that focused particularly on literacy and also story-telling.
Available to ALL members within the Language Zones:
(sign in to the Members’ Area)
- The effect of peer and teacher feedback on changes in EFL students’ writing self-efficacy
- Development of EFL writing over three years in secondary education: CLIL and non-CLIL settings
- Do near-beginner learners of French have any writing strategies?
- Vocabulary size and the skills of listening, reading and writing
- Trends in the teaching of writing
- Creative writing in foreign language teaching
- Using authentic picture books and illustrated books to improve L2 writing among 11-year-olds
- Writing in French in secondary schools in England and Germany: are the British really ‘bad language learners’?
- Finding out about learners' approaches to written French through the development of a strategies questionnaire
- A case study: writing a Spanish dictionary as a collaborative task among beginner students
- 4 profs – 4 pays: Lessons from a four-way tele-collaborative writing project
- The benefits of writing poems and stories in language learning
