Course: Plurilingual Classrooms in Action

Read this article from the European Centre for Modern Languages. The pluriliteracies approach toward teaching and learning entails a rethinking of the principle of scaffolding. For most teachers scaffolding means …

Read the following poem and reflect on how you could use it in the classroom. Add your ideas to the comments. ‘Homme de Couleur’ by Leopold Sedar Senghor ‘Cher frère …

Welcome to this week where we look at transformative pedagogies in the teaching of modern languages. Dr Colin Christie explains what is meant by transformative pedagogies and suggests that we …

Watch this video in which Dr Colin Christie demonstrates and discusses how we might use stories in the primary languages classroom. Pupils can repeat structures and predict language. By showing …