Project Director: Jim Anderson

A Goldsmiths College project, supported by the Nuffield Foundation

This series of Curriculum guides for community languages provides a flexible framework to support the design and delivery of courses in both mainstream and complementary sectors. It also recognises and values children's achievement.

The guides draw on recent policy developments in language teaching, including the Key Stage 2 Framework and the Key Stage 3 Strategy, and are linked to the new Languages Ladder. The detailed framework maps a clear linguistic progression across topics and suggests a variety of activities to develop both oracy and literacy. The guides embed a major focus on intercultural awareness and creativity, and also gives serious consideration to assessment, grammar and the development of learner independence. Up-to-date resource information and materials will be provided on a related website.

PDFs of the guides may be downloaded for free from http://community.gold.ac.uk (Goldsmiths website). To access the guides you will need to create a new account (if you are not already registered), then click on Community Languages Resource Base in the list of available courses.

Contents

Part 1: The context and aims
Rational and links to government policy | Key findings from research into bilingualism and implications for policy-makers, teachers and families

Part 2: The framework
Introduction to the framework charts | The framework charts | Creating a scheme of work based on the guide

Resources list

References and further reading

Curriculum guide for Arabic
Sawsan Saffaf-Haffar & Nazek Abdel-Hay
2007 | 95pp | £12 | Order this title online

ISBN-13: 978-1-904243-56-4
ISBN-10: 1-904243-56-8

Curriculum guide for Chinese
Amy Thompson, Katherine Li & Eileen Lee
2007 | 95pp | £12 | Order this title online

ISBN-13: 978-1-904243-57-1
ISBN-10: 1-904243-57-6

Curriculum guide for Panjabi
Naresh Chandla & Paramjeet Grewal
2007 | 95pp | £12 | Order this title online

ISBN-13: 978-1-904243-58-8
ISBN-10: 1-904243-58-4

Curriculum guide for Tamil
Siva Pillai & Kristhuraja Nithiya
2007 | 95pp | £12 | Order this title online

ISBN-13: 978-1-904243-59-5
ISBN-10: 1-904243-59-2

Curriculum guide for Urdu
Kausar Ali & Hamida Syed
2007 | 95pp | £12 | Order this title online

ISBN-13: 978-1-904243-60-1
ISBN-10: 1-904243-60-6
June 2007

"The Urdu guide has made a genuine difference in my classroom"
Shazia Siddique. Read the full article

"...an invaluable resource for trainees and teachers and provided a flexible framework to assist trainees in designing and teaching courses in mainstream and complementary schools. They were very well received by teachers and trainees looking for ways to develop ICT and create or update schemes of work." Ofsted 'Every Language Matters' report February 2008

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