Basic Skills in modern foreign languages

Basic Skills in Modern Foreign Languages

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n Literacy, Numeracy and Citizenship through MFL: Anne Cruickshank's photocopiable resource published by Pearson Publishing.
n Literacy in modern foreign languages: Key Stage 3 National Strategy document for LEA consultants and subject advisers, published by the Department for Education and Skills.
n Modern foreign languages and literacy at key stages 2 and 3: Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (CILT) and Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) project seeking to identify ways in which the development of mother-tongue literacy and foreign language skills might be mutually supportive.
n List of areas of study MFL has in common with literacy: International Resources Centre, Bedfordshire checklist for literacy in MFL.
n MFL & literacy: Stockport Education Service literacy across the curriculum resource.
n Staffordshire Learning Net has posted two MFL and Literacy resources produced in English and French by Paget High School in Microsoft Publisher format: Reading Strategies Poster, illustrating the reading strategy of "skimming" and Spelling Strategies Poster, illustrating the "look, say, cover, write, check" spelling strategy.
n Farren, A. and Cheater, C. (n.d.) Teaching literacy in modern foreign languages, London: Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research. Young Pathfinder 9.
n For teachers of languages other than English, New South Wales Department of Education and Training has not only provided the professional support document Teaching literacy in languages in Year 7, but also several single-language publications: Arabic and literacy, Arabic and numeracy, Chinese and literacy, French and literacy, German and literacy, Greek and literacy, Greek and numeracy, Indonesian and literacy, Italian and literacy, Japanese and literacy, Korean and numeracy and Spanish and literacy.
n French crosswords (14-16): SSER Ltd description of a key stage 4 crossword resource in CD-ROM and photocopy master formats.
n MFL keywords: Portal to vocabulary lists and activities of use in teaching MFL.
n German word matches: Word puzzle dedicated to the German keywords in Harton School's key stage 3 student diary.
n MFL and numeracy: CILT Cymry site with downloadable resources by Iona Davies, Head of MFL at Ysgol Dyffryn Teifi.
n List of areas of study MFL has in common with numeracy: International Resources Centre, Bedfordshire checklist for numeracy in MFL.

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