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Spring 2014 FINAL ISMLA NEWSLETTER Independent Schools’ Modern Languages Association www.ismla.co.uk Spring 2014 Contact the Committee Chairman Liaison with Prep Schools Nick Mair Anne-Marie Williams Dulwich Colleg e Bilton Grange Preparatory School, Rug- by [email protected] [email protected] Vice Chairman and Membership Exhibitions Organiser Secretary David Cragg-James Geoffrey Plow [email protected] University College School [email protected] Treasurer Other Committee Members Peter Ansell Stonyhurst College Jane Byrne, King’s School, Chester [email protected] Duncan Byrne, Cheltenham College Secretary Kevin Dunne , formerly Ampleforth Col- Jenny Davey lege (Liaison with ALL, ISMLA repre- Glenalmond College sentative on Executive Council ) Jennyda- Jim Houghton, Highgate School [email protected] Astrid McAuliffe, Alleyn’s School Newsletter Editor Peter Langdale Richard Oates, Sherborne School North London Collegiate School [email protected] Daniella Mardell, St Paul’s Girls’ School Helena Matthews, Godolphin & Latymer Reviews Editor Melvyn Bardou Duncan Peel, Hampton School Mill Hill School [email protected] Ben Pollard, Eltham College Website Editor David Sheppard, Tanglin Trust School, Thomas Underwood Singapore University College School [email protected] Julia Whyte, formerly St Francis’ Colle- ge Awarding Bodies Liaison Officer John Wilson, Cheadle Hulme School Alex Frazer Mill Hill School [email protected] 2 Contents Page From the Chairman 4 From the Editor 6 ISMLA Conference 2014 7 Teachers, Research and Evidence 17 Parlez-vous Zulu? 20 Northern Schools' MFL Debating Competition 24 ISMLA German Day 25 Six School Lower 6th French Conference 28 Reviews 30 The front cover image is a detail from Primavera (Spring) by Sandro Botti- celli (1445-1510) which hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Other details can be found throughout this Newsletter! 3 From the Chairman I hope you will agree that the speakers and venue at the ISMLA annual con- ference on 1st February were of the highest order. The variety of sessions allowed a happy balance of the academic, the practical and the informative – with much to help pupils but also something for our own interest and devel- opment. Our thanks go to the speakers and to Robin Edmundson and the City of London School. Next year’s conference will take place on Saturday 31st January with the venue to be confirmed in the next newsletter. We are especially grateful to those of you who filled in a feedback form at the end of the conference. It was a bumper crop – easily the biggest haul of feedback we have had in the last ten years. All your responses will help im- prove the conference next year. Venez nombreux. Meeting with Ofqual ISMLA welcomed the opportunity to meet again with leading representatives from Ofqual – Amanda Spielman (Chair) and Cath Jadhav (Head of Stand- ards) – as a result of the ‘What the **** do my pupils need to do to get an A*?’ conference which had been held at Dulwich College in Autumn 2013. At the meeting, we reiterated our concerns about the severity and unpredictabil- ity of modern language examination marking and Ofqual have undertaken to investigate these concerns further. You will remember that the Ofqual corpo- rate plan published in August has already promised to address the A* issue in modern languages. Ofqual report: Review of Quality of Marking in Exams I draw your attention to the Ofqual report encouragingly headlined ‘Ofqual report calls for better examinations marking system’ published during the Spring half term. We applaud their research. You will find pages 33-41 of particular interest. We again highlight the difference in grading (which we think is more severe than in other subjects) and assessment (the way in which marks are awarded – we think that the oral and topic essay do not produce a rank order we understand). The report can be found at http:// ofqual.gov.uk/documents/quality-of-marking-final-report. It is worth pointing out that Ofqual concedes that as an organisation it has no ability to under- take analysis of the comparability of grades between boards and between subjects within boards. The New Modern Language Examinations Departments will want to know that the date for first teaching of both the new GCSE and A level exams is 2016. This is a concern given that the first 4 examining will then be in the academic year 2018 (results in August 2019) and for most schools the ‘message’ about the new exam and its effect on results will take some time to trickle through to SMT (often not linguists), heads of 6th forms, pupils and parents. The Next steps Our understanding is that the new modern languages GCSE consultation pro- cess will be around April. Given the tight deadline, the window for contribu- tions will be tight. Please continue to pass on information about issues that concern you. It is only through your contributions that Geoffrey Plow and I can be aware of emerging trends and build a body of evidence. Chairmanship Geoffrey Plow ( Vice-Chair ) and I ( Chair ) will be stepping aside at the next conference. The committee is eager to hear from full-time teachers who are keen to fill these two roles and thereby contribute their energy, interest and input to the development of the important work of ISMLA. Geoffrey and I will give every assistance to those who follow in the two posts. Peter Langdale (Newsletter editor ) is also relinquishing his role and the committee thanks him for all he has done to produce such consistently high quality publications. He too has undertaken to mentor the new editor. With all good wishes for the coming exam season Nick Mair 5 From the Editor It was with some dismay that when I went back through my files the other day I noticed that this edition will mark 5 years of my editorship of this Newsletter. Time has passed so quickly. I first became involved with ISMLA through the then Chairman, Richard Hoare, with whom I had taught at Dulwich College in the 1990s offering to host the 2005 National Conference at Merchant Taylors School, Northwood where I had recently been appointed Head of Modern Languages. I joined the committee shortly thereafter and in Summer 2009 I edited my first Newslet- ter. It was something of a coincidence that I began my tenure at the same time as Nick Mair took over as Chairman with Geoff Plow as Vice-Chairman, but so it was and it has been a pleasure to work with them. Editing the Newsletter has been a really interesting opportunity, having stepped aside from Head of Department duties, to keep abreast of what is going on in and to encounter people from many different corners of the lan- guages world from publishers to advertisers, from exam boards to teachers and heads of department in a wide variety of schools. It has been rewarding and great fun. However, I have decided that it is time I passed on the baton to someone younger, with new ideas (and maybe even technical skills!). So, the next edition in Summer 2014 will be my last. I am therefore making an appeal to find a successor. Are you interested, or do you know of someone else who might be interested in taking over? Anyone even potentially interested should get in touch with me ( [email protected] ) and I will be only too happy to outline what editorship entails. I will equally be on hand to help a new editor as he or she takes over the reins. And I promise to contribute some articles too! I look forward to lots of expressions of interest in my inbox! Peter Langdale 6 ISMLA National Conference 2014 The annual conference was held this year on Saturday 1st February , hosted by City of London Boys’ School. There follow brief accounts of the main events. Bilingualism Matters - Professor Antonella Sorace Antonella Sorace gave the opening talk and was as inspiring and thought- provoking as ever. Antonella is Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh and also the founder and director of the Europe-wide information service Bilingualism Matters. Antonella started her talk by outlin- ing the common misconceptions that people have about the consequences of learning more than one language. These, combined with a lack of infor- mation and the low priority given to language learning in the UK had led to many opportunities being missed. Antonella went on to show that learning more than one language had proven cognitive benefits for the brain, in addition to practical and cultural ad- vantages. She showed how bilingual learners found it easier to learn a third or fourth language, had a better understanding of the first language, were more precocious readers, had greater awareness of other points of view, greater efficiency in adapting to new tasks, were better at carrying out tasks requiring selective attention and benefited from better negotiating abilities, understanding of priorities and even better leadership skills. This is all in addition to improved mathematical reasoning and problem-solving abilities. Antonella made it clear at the start that the term bilingual was used here to refer to anyone with a knowledge and regular use of more than one lan- guage, thus the benefits were accessible to those studying a language at school, as well as later. As many of us expected, it is easier if you start young and it was fascinating to hear how babies could distinguish between two languages just by watching the facial movements and expressions of the speaker! The talk led to a number of questions and a lively debate on how to use this information to promote the language learning cause.
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