Making the case for languages at Key Stage 4 (NPF5)

Linda Parker & Teresa Tinsley

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Schools can now choose whether to offer languages as an optional or compulsory subject in Key Stage 4. Language departments are increasingly faced with the need to present a convincing case for their subject to headteachers, governors, parents, the local community, other teachers within the school and to the students themselves. Making the case for languages at Key Stage 4 provides a toolkit of practical suggestions, persuasive arguments and advice on how to convince these different audiences. It offers heads of department and other language teachers background information, statistics, checklists, resources and, above all, a broad-based perspective designed to help them make the case for languages effectively. This book will be a vital tool in helping them to provide effective leadership for languages as schools face up to the implications of the entitlement curriculum and prepare for the next round of reforms.

Contents

Foreword | Introduction | Making the case to Heads, Governors and Senior Management | How to persuade and involve other departments within the school | How to persuade and involve parents and the wider community | Pupil power | Appendix: List of alternative qualifications to GCSE

'... a most needed and ultimately invaluable book for practitioners and allies in the battle to safeguard languages' Secondary teacher, West Midlands

2005 | 84pp | ISBN-13: 978-1-904243-45-8 | ISBN-10:1-904243-45-2 | £12 | Order this title online

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See also:
Boosting boys motivation in MFL
Language learning for work in a multilingual worl
Languages work

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