Official documentation: Scotland

Scottish CILT (SCILT) | Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED) | HM Inspectorate of Education | Modern Foreign Languages Environment (MFLE) | Scottish Council for Research in Education (SCRE)

Scottish CILT (SCILT)

Scottish CILT provides access to information about early language learning in Scotland, including links to policy documents, current research, past research, published reports and statistics.

Assessing Modern Languages Achievement: a Scottish Pilot Study of Late Primary and Early Secondary Pupils - Richard Johnstone, Jane Cavani, Lesley Low, Joanna McPake, edited by Lesley Low, December 2000. Download from the CILT website.

Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED)

5-14 Guidelines - Modern Languages
Published in 2000. Available to view on the Learning and Teaching Scotland website.

5-14 Guide for Teachers and Managers - Modern Languages
Published in 2000. Available to view on the Learning and Teaching Scotland website.

Standards and Quality: Primary and Secondary School 1994-1998: in Modern Languages
Available to view on HMEI website.

Modern Foreign Languages Environment (MFLE)
The MFLE has been developed by Scottish CILT and Learning & Teaching Scotland. The primary zone includes information on primary inspections in modern languages.

Scottish Council for Research in Education (SCRE)

Teaching Modern Languages at Primary School: Approaches and Implications - Richard Johnstone, 1994. Download from the SCRE website.

Taking Languages from Primary to Secondary - Richard Johnstone. In: SCRE newsletter, no.54 Spring 1994