If you’re wondering why your students perform well on reading tasks but not on listening and you’re sure you’ve covered much of the language in the passage, a big factor is their ability to recognise known vocab through listening.To achieve this, all vocab MUST be practised aurally, not just through reading and writing tasks. The …
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In my previous post, we explored how the demands of the stimulus card can be addressed through effective long-term planning and selection of teaching materials. Before we continue, here is a reminder of some of the common areas where students can struggle in this task: Ineffective summarising of the text Basic, superficial opinions & difficulty …
I saw a post the other day in one of the MFL Facebook groups about how to liven up ‘choral repetition’ or other activities to help students process language orally, so I’ve compiled some of the ones that have worked best for me so far. We know from Second Language Acquisition research that doing reading/writing …
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