Wed 23 March

Un grand merci à Lynsey H et à Kathryn pour leurs présentations.

Counting song mon merle

Writing assessment and sort out micro teaching days

Reading - Africanimo.com fact files on African animals
What are your expectations? appearance, size, food, habitat, family, social organisation,
Print out pdf versions from the sidebar (avoid the hyena!!)
Highlight words you know and cognates(words that are v like English)
Work in pairs to note facts about your animal - target 10
Also we used lingro.com to check vocab when reading online.

Phonics activities
Handout and blogpost on http://frenchcpd.posterous.com/
My ideas - mirrors, dominoes etc
Add your phrases to lino it walls
http://linoit.com/IN
http://linoit.com/AN/EN
http://linoit.com/ON


Background for essay question

Assignment Reading

I'm trying to find you some up-to-date research and reports. I will update as and when I find more.

Scottish Parliament Excellence reports incl Modern Languages, published 7 March 2011
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Education/Schools/curriculum/excellence

"Novel idea" project (Intercultural) mentioned in page 11 of above report
http://novelideaproject.wikispaces.com/

See also Implications for CPD on page 21-22


Herald article 11 March 2011
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/scots-trailing-europeans-in-language-skills
and leader comment
http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/herald-view/we-must-address-crisis-in-the-teaching-of-languages-1.1089759 and
http://www.holyrood.com/

Trying to find the study they refer to… Have emailed Dr Dan Tierney, the author.

SCILT is the Scottish Centre for Information and Research in Language Teaching based at Strathclyde University.
Various reports published
http://www.strath.ac.uk/scilt/researchandstatistics/sciltpastresearchprojects
statistics
http://www.strath.ac.uk/scilt/researchandstatistics/statisticsonlanguagesinscotland/
data seems to be quite old eg 2005

March 2011 European and External Relations Committee Report
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/europe/reports-11/eur11-01-vol1.htm
para 122
122. The Committee is concerned about the poor linguistic performance of the Scottish population compared with much of Europe, including regions whose populations are bilingual (in two native languages), and recommends that language skills be promoted in order to encourage a culture of internationalisation in Scotland, and to equip young people to compete on a level playing field (Recommendation 6).