Modern Languages Blog

Sarah Breslin is the new Director of the Scottish Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research.

Sarah has been Project Manager within the Qualifications Development Directorate at the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA). The focus of her recent work at SQA has been on the new Scottish Baccalaureates and Curriculum for Excellence.

She holds an MA in French and German language and literature from the University of Glasgow and an RSA PGDip in TEFLA from International House, London.

From CILT:

UK winners of this year’s European Award for Languages have shown that language teachers are increasingly looking outside of the language department for ways to motivate young learners. Winning projects made innovative cross-curricular links with departments including Drama, geography, history and citizenship to show students the relevance of languages to all aspects of life. Read more…

Scottish Languages Review –  Issue 19 is now available on the Scottish CILT website – Please note new website address (Scottish CILT are now based at the University of Strathclyde):

http://www.strath.ac.uk/scilt/slr/iss/2009/19/

Last Monday, Scottish CILT hosted the first virtual event for languages teachers through Glow – Scotland’s national school intranet. They invited practitioners from the primary and secondary sectors to share their experiences of interdisciplinary work and had examples from each sector as the focus of the event.
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CILT, the National Centre for Languages has just launched the next Languages and Film Talent Awards (LAFTAs) competition, which offers the perfect chance for you to test your creativity and have some fun with languages.
The LAFTAs is a national competition inviting 13-21 year olds to make short films about the importance of languages.

Find out more and how to enter the competition from:

http://www.languageswork.org.uk/laftas/