looking ahead: specialist language degrees in higher education
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The A Level Curriculum
Looking Ahead: Specialist Language Looking Ahead: Specialist Language Degrees in Higher EducationDegrees in Higher Education
Friday 25 November 2005 Goodenough College, London
The A Level Curriculum
The New MFL LandscapeThe New MFL Landscape
Languages for All: Languages for Life
KS2 Framework for modern foreign languages
The A Level Curriculum
Review of GCE Subject Criteria
General outcomes
• reduce to 4 units
• further stretch
• AS/A2 balance
• progression to HE
• suitable coursework
Outcomes specific to MFL
• GCSE – AS – A2 progression improved
• content to reflect teaching time
• greater clarity about AO4
• coursework expectations clearer
• decline in entries reversed
The A Level Curriculum
Possible changes
• extended writing only at A2 ?
• move some grammatical elements to A2 ?
• remove AO4 from AS + review weighting at A2 ?
• review wording of AO2 ?
Review of GCE Subject Criteria
Issues to consider
• more AS candidates than for A2
• AS candidates in KS4
• more HE students are on institution-wide language programmes than language degree courses
The A Level Curriculum
““In the knowledge society of the 21st century, language In the knowledge society of the 21st century, language
competence and intercultural understanding are not competence and intercultural understanding are not
optional, they are an essential part of being a citizen.”optional, they are an essential part of being a citizen.”
The National Strategy for Languages
The A Level Curriculum
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The A Level Curriculum
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Spanish 4,610 5,381 5,504 5,706 5,752
Other Modern Languages 1,940 2,652 2,889 2,992 3,353
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The A Level Curriculum
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The A Level Curriculum
Fast-trackingVocational pathwaysWider range of languages
Languages Ladder New A Levels
The A Level Curriculum
Higher standards, Better schools for All More Choice for Parents and Pupils
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/publications/schoolswhitepaper/
The White Paper 25 0ctober 2005
Freeing schools from local authority control
New providers
Choice advisors
School improvement partners
National schools commissioner
Leading professionals
SLCs in ITT
LA = Commissioning agent
The A Level Curriculum
The A Level Curriculum
Promoting a greater
national capability in
languages