What matters most in MFL?
• Developing students as confident, spontaneous, accurate communicators
• Seeing the role of language learning as purposeful in the modern world
• Ability to adapt and use language in real life contexts
• Mastering and retaining key linguistic structures over time
• Fostering a positive appreciation of target language culture and society
• Challenging monocultural thinking, promoting and embedding multicultural awareness
• Aiming for self-efficacy – an understanding of how language works and is manipulated
Conceptual Threads
• Recognising links between spoken and written language and applying this in practice
• Adapting vocabulary structures to relevant contexts in productive language
• Using existing knowledge to deduce meaning of unfamiliar language in receptive language and build into productive language
• Learning to express and justify opinions with increasing complexity
• Developing my role as a global citizen
Prior Learning (dependent on context)
• Have supposedly listened to spoken language and shown understanding
• Have explored patterns through songs/rhymes
• Have engaged in very short conversations
• Have expressed very basic opinions
• Have begun to appreciate the culture by means of stories, songs, poems, traditions and/or rhymes
At Whitelands Academy, we offer French and Spanish at KS3 and GCSE.