Modern Languages - 14-19 Development

Planning for 14-19

In your planning consider

• Learners’ entitlement to language learning in the European Context, for example, competitiveness, mobility, etc
• Issues of social inclusion, raising aspirations
• Progression issues
• Design of option blocks for fairness and balance 
• Motivational planning, risk taking in curriculum design, broader thinking, internationalism, impact of regular international contact
• Accreditations after GCSE and instead of GCSE

Website References

• Gateway, progress checks, Implementation Plan,  Section 96 ‘permissible’ qualifications
• Names of Qualifications
• Research on Existing Prospectuses
• Quality Improvement Agency
• SSAT
• CILT
• Association of Language Learning 
• NALA

Awarding bodies

• Edexcel
• OCR
• City & Guilds
• AQA

Others

• Dearing Review Report
• Languages Work
• CILT Pathfinder: Making the Case for Languages

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A Level Results August 2008

The Association for Language Learning (ALL) circulated a press release following the announcement of the A level results on 14th August 2008. ALL is delighted to note the contribution that languages has made to boost A level results and the fact that languages entries overall have increased. More......

QCA Languages Update

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QCA News on Speaking Assessment & Grading

The documents below give information on speaking assessment and grading in modern languages.

• QCA Grade Standards in GCSE Modern Foreign Languages
• QCA Assessment of Speaking in GCSE Modern Foreigh Languages

New GCSE Specifications for Teaching in 2009

Click the appropriate examining board to link to the corresponding website 

AQA

EDEXCEL

OCR

WJEC

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Edexcel GCSE in Applied French

This qualification in now out of pilot and is generally available. New centres should register with Edexcel who will want to ensure the necessary ICT provision exists for the on-screen listening and reading tests.

Performance Indicators

Please click here for full information about MFL performance indicators to be made available from 2008.

Key Stage 4

The current requirement that languages offered at Key Stage 4 must include at least one EU language will not apply from September, in line with changes at Key Stage 3.

Asset Languages

Asset Languages is a new way of motivating language learners and rewarding their language skills. The Asset Languages assessment scheme is for language learners of all ages and abilities: from primary school through to further, higher and adult education. Asset Languages is the assessment scheme for the DCSF' Languages Ladder and is being developed by Cambridge Assessment through OCR and Cambridge ESOL, as part of the National Languages Strategy

Asset Languages News

Please be aware of the following message from Asset:"Dear Asset Centre Coordinator If you have Year 9 students in your centre, we would like to make you aware of some FREE Asset Languages materials that you may find useful for your Options Evening.  Please visit our website at to find out how you can get hold of our guide for parents, our Year 9 presentation or how you can, on request, obtain some free posters for your languages department.We hope you find these resources helpful. Kind Regards Asset Languages Team
OCR Customer Contact Centre: +44 (0) 1223 553998"