Developing Professional Practice in Primary Modern Foreign Language Teaching.

A real delight of the Midwheb programme is the MFL in Primary Schools programme, which is innovative and ground breaking in developing languages.

The Enfield LEA group led by Bernadette Clinton met on Wednesday 22nd January. The programme included outlines of each teacher's personal journal in learning languages, which proved to be fascinating insights into how laugages are learned, with obvious implications for teaching.

Each teacher brought some representative artifacts of their journey. The group went on to plan individual practitioner research projects into aspects of learning languages in the primary school including, using Visual, Kinesthetic and Auditory learning styles, games and memorisation.

• Julie Advantage of IWB games in order to teach MFL
• Laura Impact of using IWB and software on motivation and learning
• Sera Impact of memorisation techniques.
  
• Caroline MFL and EAL: A symbiosis.
• Jennifer How movement can enhance FL learning …
• Sandra Impact of use of IWB in MFL lesson
• Jo Action and movement in MFL lesson….
• Jane MFL: movement for learning!
• Debbie Implementing French into KS2 curriculum by non-specialists:
• Class teacher or external specialist?

After the development of the approaches and the materials the teachers will be researching the impact of their approaches on language learning later in the year