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

"We are very impressed with the guides.
This is exactly what our teachers have been seeking for a long time. With the curriculum guides, they can gauge how their students are progressing"

Milton Keynes Chinese School and Community Centre

"...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

‘ These guides offer a real opportunity to bring community languages into the mainstream of education where they belong, and to value the long unrecognised achievements of children who use them every day’
Dr Terry Lamb, Director, Initial Teacher Education, University of Sheffield

NEW CURRICULUM GUIDES: Cantonese, Gujarati, Somali, Yoruba

Flick through the pages of our new curriculum guides by clicking on their cover

Originally conceived as 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 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 give serious consideration to assessment, grammar and the development of learner independence.

All the authors are experienced language teachers committed to making the study of community languages relevant and meaningful for a wide range of learners.

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

Curriculum guide for Arabic
Jim Anderson, 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

NEW Curriculum guide for Chinese - Cantonese
Catalina Brooks, Eileen Lee and Katherine Li
2009 | 96pp | £12 | Order this title online

ISBN-13: 978-1-904243-76-2
ISBN-10: 1-904243-76-2

Curriculum guide for Chinese - Mandarin
Jim Anderson, 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

NEW Curriculum guide for Gujarati
Jay Kant and Arvind Bhatt
2009 | 96pp | £12 | Order this title online

ISBN-13: 978-1-904243-77-9
ISBN-10: 1-904243-77-0

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

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

NEW Curriculum guide for Somali
Yusuf Farah and Abdrisak Mohamud
2009 | 92pp | £12 | Order this title online

ISBN-13: 978-1-904243-78-9
ISBN-10: 1-904243-78-9

Curriculum guide for Tamil
Jim Anderson, 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
Jim Anderson, Kausar Ali & Hamida Syed
2007 | 95pp | £12 | Order this title online

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

NEW Curriculum guide for Yoruba
Solomon Olayinka Oke and Akin Oyetade
2009 | 92pp | £12 | Order this title online

ISBN-13: 978-1-904243-79-3
ISBN-10: 1-904243-79-7

For Bengali, you might be interested in our Curriculum framework for mother tongue teaching in Bengali for pupils aged 5-11 years

PDFs of the Arabic, Chinese, Tamil, Panjabi and Urdu 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.

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