In France, a teacher’s lot appears not to be a very happy one.

Schools in England will have to ensure at least half their pupils study a foreign language until they are 16. Read the report on the BBC website.

This Le Monde Article reveals one author’s views that TF1 and Endemol may have chosen an obese contestant on Star Academy to fulfil their obligations of “bonne conscience”.

A new behind-the-scenes book reveals how it was the public who won in the end, ensuring that Magalie, 18 years, would win the competition. Their efforts were thwarted […]

New! We now have an Image Bank
on our MFLE website that you can make good use of. You can download any
of our copyright-free photos for use in the classroom. Use them to make
resources, PowerPoint presentations, posters - or to enhance your own
website!

A new way to create partnerships with foreign schools and work collaboratively online - for free!.
eLanguages is a free and simple-to-use tool for teachers to create their own projects with teachers in other countries. It is supported by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES).
Motivate your students and broaden their horizons through fun and curriculum-relevant […]

From The Independent today:
The outgoing German ambassador delivered a fiery parting shot on the state of language teaching in UK schools yesterday, saying “English is not enough” for tomorrow’s youngsters.
Thomas Matussek, who leaves the UK shortly for a post in India, warned that the number of students learning languages was “unfortunately still falling”.

He urged the […]

The top news item on DW-TV is on the London fire. A great story for even younger classes, as most of the ideas behind it are things they’ll have seen on the British news.

Foreign language teachers across the EU are being invited to express their views in a study for the European Commission regarding obstacles to their mobility in Europe.  The Commission believes it is important that all foreign language teachers have adequate experience of using their target language and understanding its culture, and that this should be […]

As part of our ethos to always promote creative teaching, we have recently published a new section dedicated to Foreign Language Assistants. In particular, three foreign language assistants share their video diaries with the MFLE. They talk about the welcomes they received in Scotland, and about what would make it easier to settle into their […]

This year for the first time British Council Scotland has been able to offer schools the skills of young Chinese people as an official part of the Foreign Language Assistants programme.
The four assistants have been working in Scotland since September. They are qualified teachers of English at home, but while here they teach their own […]