Over the last decade, more than ten universities in the UK have closed their modern languages departments, and there is a steep decline in the uptake of languages at GCSE, A Level and at university. Are we too late to reverse this trend? How can we empower teachers to feel confident about teaching languages, and enthuse pupils to love learning languages from an early age? Cate talks to Sascha Stollhans, who teaches German at the University of Lancaster and works closely with schools through their outreach programme and the Linguistics in MFL project, about how linguistics might be the key to the sustainable future of language education, and how we can join up our thinking to save languages at university.
Episode 25: What was language learning like 400 years ago?
Episode 24: Speak standard English!
Episode 23: Grammar... friend or foe?
Episode 22: Speech and language therapy.
Episode 21: EAL – where to start?
Episode 20: How can we navigate bilingual education?
Episode 18: Trolling, trust and language education.
Episode 17: Time for a communication revolution?
Episode 16: How can we reimagine MFL education?
Episode 15: How do we transform the MFL curriculum?
Episode 14: Why translation is important.
Episode 13: What if we taught language through poetry?
Episode 12: How does writing poetry help us find our voice?
Episode 11: What happens if your voice is silenced?
Episode 10: Have we got our approach to teaching language right?
Episode 9: How can we play with language through talk, poetry and writing?
Episode 8: How can linguistics help teachers?
Episode 7: What's in an accent?
Episode 6: How can Shakespeare help us talk to each other?
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