As an MFL teacher and head of department, I am naturally interested when something like the following appears. In response, we usually get a flurry of tweets proposing solutions to the problem of declining language take up. I would summarise the solutions as follows
a) We need fairer GCSE grading
b) We need examinations which are better designed
The above are the focus of the letter to the Guardian by a group of linguists, but then people tweet other solutions, namely:
c) The whole MFL curriculum is too banal and needs revamping
d) We must teach languages more at primary, the earlier the better
e) We need to teach subjects in other languages (CLIL)
f) UK language teaching methodology is wrong
g) The subject needs to promote itself more
h) MFL needs far more curriculum time
I think the issue is that perhaps all of us who believe in the importance of…
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