Why study languages - Your feedback
In order to develop further resources in the future, the Subject Centre team would find it very useful to receive feedback on how the CD-Rom has been used, both in HE and the Secondary Sector. Please email comments to llas@soton.ac.uk.
They liked the visuals, the quiz type elements etc but the highlight was the video clip: "Message for the lads!" This made the most lasting impression on everyone!!
University lecturer
Comments received
I have allowed my PGCE (secondary) trainee teachers to borrow the materials and I know that some of them used the CD in assemblies (Year 9 option choices time).
Anna Lise Gordon, St Mary's College, Twickenham
We've used the 'Language Lab' section of the CDas part of school workshop 'taster' sessions intended to give visiting school pupils (aged between 11 and 16) an insight into language-learning at University... Feedback has generally been quite positive, and the materials have helped provide variety and interest alongside other activities within the workshop sessions.
David Shotton, IT Officer, Language Resources, University of Manchester
They liked the visuals, the quiz type elements etc but the highlight was the video clip: "Message for the lads!" This made the most lasting impression on everyone!!
Jocelyn Wyburd, University of Manchester
School colleagues accompanying the pupils seemed very impressed... I think that overall, pupils respond to the presentation as a whole and that the presenter is really using it as a hook or simply to punctuate points about languages and
social mobility, the diversity of languages available, the world perspective etc.
Mike Fay, Anglia Ruskin University
We have used it individually in each of our Year 9 classes so all of my colleagues have used all of the materials to promote the study of languages in KS4. We also use the whole thing during an evening event in November which we call "Talk to Us" when parents and pupils in KS 3 are invited to an interactive evening of quizzes, activities and languages promotion with a formal beginning and prizes for the best family at the end. I think it is a wonderful facility and thank you for it.
Jennifer Wheals, Head of Languages, The Corsham School
We used the CD at our school with year 9 students to promote the uptake of languages at GCSE. We found the CD easy to use and it went down well with colleagues and students alike. We thought the information presented was great. Our uptake of languagess this year for GCSE is up on last year so that was good.
Helen Mitchell, Pudsey Grangefield School
I plan to take the why study languages and routes into studying languages at university into secondary schools during next year to try and help increase the take-up of languages in the region- and to use the Why Study Languages as part of UWLP recruitment.
Roger Baines, University of East Anglia
Very positive responses form pupils who could see the point of learning a language put into a context not just as a classroom situation... it helps to change the image that Languages are mostly for girls.
Laurence Giguet, Chailey School
