New from MFLE: Judit Munso from Lossiemouth High school writes about her experiences on a Critical Skills course she attended and how she applied the techniques in her classroom.
Read Critical Skills in the languages class

The outreach programme is run by Scottish Cilt’s Professional Services Team, and aims to ensure teachers are fully aware of developments in modern language teaching and to increase expertise in the classroom. The Outreach programme aims to bring high quality, focussed training in modern language teaching to all parts of the country.
Further details of the aims of the […]

New qualifications in science and languages are to be introduced for S5 and S6 pupils in Scotland’s schools.
Education Secretary Fiona Hyslop said that the Scottish Language Baccalaureate and Scottish Science Baccalaureate have been created to build on the back of success of Advanced Highers.
Proposed structure of Language Baccalaureate:

Interdisciplinary project at Advanced Higher
English or Gàidhlig at […]

The launch by SQA of Intermediate 1 and 2 qualifications in Mandarin and Cantonese for Scottish secondary school pupils is a significant development.
In working towards a stronger engagement with China, appreciation and knowledge of language is vital. Following an intense period of preparation Scottish students will now have the opportunity to opt […]

The May 2008 features include the EPPI project at Walker Road, Outreach Programme, Languages and sport, events reports and local authority news.
Download PDF file: Scottish CiLT News May 2008

Last month we published the Spanish Reference Grammar and we have now added the Italian Reference Grammar which covers:

verbs - cases, tenses, adverbs and more
nouns and articles
adjectives
prepositions
language relating to time, dates, numbers, weather and seasons

For your convenience, you can also download the entire resource as a PDF or Word document.

An ‘online hub’ for the Confucius Classrooms programme is now live. It forms a key part of the Confucius Classrooms vision in Scotland, to extend access to teaching and learning about Chinese language and culture and support growth of a learning community.
The hub has a public website, with information about the programme, resources and examples of […]

Speaker - Stephen McCrossan, North Lanarkshire Council
What this workshop’s about
North Lanarkshire schools have established strong links with schools in Mallorca. Stephen will outline how videoconferencing has strengthened these links and enhanced the learning experience of the pupils. He will demonstrate the features of the Marratech videoconferencing software and describe examples of its use in the […]

Presenter - Wendy Adeniji, freelance ICT trainer and consultant, Bradford
What this workshop’s about
Wendy looks at how we can move away from ‘Death by Powerpoint’ and use the interactive whiteboard effectively to encourage use of the target language, to teach and reinforce grammar and to create activities that motivate pupils.
The workshop
Wendy is from Yorkshire and worked […]

Communicate, the annual ICT conference organised by Scottish CILT and Learning and Teaching Scotland, will be held on Saturday March 8, 2008, in the Management Centre at the University of Stirling.
You can view the programme on the MFLE website. The cost is £95.
If you are interested in attending, please email Amanda Reeman-Clark at Scottish CILT (amanda.reemanclark@stir.ac.uk).
If you […]