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Making links abroadContact with people in different countries provides children with a real purpose for learning and using the new language they are learning. Increasingly schools are making links with partner schools abroad through e-mail and videoconferencing and for some schools this contact has been the most fruitful, rewarding and enjoyable aspect of teaching MFL. Everyone in the school can join in the increasing contact with a different country or countries and help to move the children out of the narrow radius of school and home. Learning a new language gives children a great opportunity to develop their knowledge and understanding of a different culture or cultures. They can learn about the lives and interests of children of their own age, find out more about the climate, geography, food and history of other countries and may even be able to meet native speakers from the countries. Children enjoy working
with authentic materials, such as real objects, postcards, photographs,
menus, stamps, magazines and newspapers, TV and radio guides, coins and
brochures. Pictures of life abroad can come into the classroom through
video and through the Internet. The NACELL
website suggests websites which might contain useful authentic materials
which teachers can use, as well as pictures of children in schools abroad.
If you would like to find an e-mail partner for your school or make a link with a school abroad, you can find information in Linking with Schools. The following is from QCA Teacher's guide, scheme of work for MFL at Key Stage 2.
The British Council Education and Training Group The British
Council promotes the development of an international dimension to
the school curriculum. It also encourages and supports international partnerships
between schools. Many of its excellent services offer great support to
primary schools which teach a foreign language.
British Council Education
enquiry line: See also 'Who will teach MFL?' for information and articles on the Foreign Language Assistant. *** The following files are available to download in PDF format:
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