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The LDP Resource Portal is an open and searchable database of materials supporting language learning and teaching.

https://resources.ldpedagogy.org/
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📢NEW CPD for autumn 2025! Join Rachel Hawkes
this autumn/winter for 4 practical sessions on boosting confidence and creativity and preparing students for the new GCSE. KS3 strategies, phonics, grammar, listening, and more.

👉Book now: york.ac.uk/education/re...

#MFL #CPD #GCSE
Continuing Professional Development
The partnership between The University of York and the Cam Academy Trust strives to bring together research and practice to improve language curriculum design and pedagogy, leading to a higher take up...
york.ac.uk
📢 Upcoming MFL CPD @york.ac.uk 📢

🎓Making sense of sentence building: clarity, confidence, creativity
🗓️Tuesday 25th November 2025
⏰16:00-17:30
🏷️£50 (Great student discount available!)

⬇️ See below for more info! ⬇️

www.york.ac.uk/education/re...
Making sense of sentence building: clarity, confidence, creativity
The course will give teachers ideas and examples of tasks to develop learners’ confidence in successfully manipulating language in order to create sentences that communicate clearly.
www.york.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
📢 Upcoming MFL CPD @york.ac.uk 📢

🎓Refreshing KS3: building towards the new GCSE with Rachel Hawkes

🗓️Tuesday 18th November
⏰16:00-17:30 (Online via Zoom)
🏷️£50 (great discount for students!)

⬇️ See below for more info! ⬇️
www.york.ac.uk/education/re...
Refreshing KS3: building towards the new GCSE
This session looks at building excellent foundations at Key Stage 3, ensuring the sounds of the language are embedded from the beginning.
www.york.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
✨Challenging texts to boost KS3 learners’ vocabulary, confidence & motivation✨

LDP text exploitation resources in French, German and Spanish include tasks which are engaging and meaningful, making understanding the text essential to completing the task.
ldpedagogy.york.ac.uk/resources/il...
October 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
📢 Upcoming MFL CPD @york.ac.uk 📢

🎓Making sense of sentence building: clarity, confidence, creativity
🗓️Tuesday 25th November 2025
⏰16:00-17:30 (Online via Zoom)
🏷️£50

⬇️ See below for more info! ⬇️

www.york.ac.uk/education/re...
Making sense of sentence building: clarity, confidence, creativity
The course will give teachers ideas and examples of tasks to develop learners’ confidence in successfully manipulating language in order to create sentences that communicate clearly.
www.york.ac.uk
September 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
📢@oaknational.bsky.social's new French, German, and Spanish resources for KS3 and GCSE (aligned to both AQA and Edexcel) are now complete!🥳

Produced in partnership with @camacademytrust.bsky.social
and Rachel Hawkes, they draw on LDP's research-informed principles.
www.thenational.academy/teachers
Free, time-saving teacher resources | Oak National Academy
Explore our free, time-saving teacher resources from Oak National Academy. Browse and download worksheets, quizzes and slides from KS1 to KS4.
www.thenational.academy
September 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
📢Upcoming MFL CPD @york.ac.uk

🎓Refreshing KS3: building towards the new GCSE with Rachel Hawkes

🗓️Tuesday 18th November
⏰16:00-17:30 (Online via Zoom)
🏷️£50
⬇️See below for more info!⬇️

www.york.ac.uk/education/re...
Refreshing KS3: building towards the new GCSE
This session looks at building excellent foundations at Key Stage 3, ensuring the sounds of the language are embedded from the beginning.
www.york.ac.uk
September 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
📢Higher-frequency words facilitate predictive processing for second language learners (Hwang & Kim, 2025).

An accessible one-page summary of their research is available here: www.oasis-database.org/details/ney2...
www.oasis-database.org
September 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
How much grammar practice is enough?
Serfaty & Serrano (2024) advise reducing teaching content "in order to allow enough practice of the most fundamental content for students to attain useful, long-lasting knowledge."

Here's a summary of their study:
www.oasis-database.org/details/kp78...
www.oasis-database.org
September 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
📢NEW CPD for autumn 2025! Join Rachel Hawkes
this autumn/winter for 4 practical sessions on boosting confidence and creativity and preparing students for the new GCSE. KS3 strategies, phonics, grammar, listening, and more.

👉Book now: york.ac.uk/education/re...

#MFL #CPD #GCSE
Continuing Professional Development
The partnership between The University of York and the Cam Academy Trust strives to bring together research and practice to improve language curriculum design and pedagogy, leading to a higher take up...
york.ac.uk
September 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
📢Please spare 20 seconds for MFL vocab research!

Just answer yes, no, or I don’t know to the three questions on the form below by 7pm on Wednesday 23rd July.

forms.gle/4tHXU9nVMW1E...

Many thanks in advance!

#LangChat #MFLbluesky #edubluesky #MFL
Please spare 20 seconds for MFL vocab research
Please can you spare 20 seconds to answer yes , no, or I don’t know to these three questions by 7pm on Wednesday 23rd July?
forms.gle
July 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
📢 Upcoming MFL CPD @york.ac.uk📢

🎓 Outstanding curriculum design for Primary Languages

🗓️Monday 31st March 2025
⏰16:00-17:30 (Online via Zoom)
🏷️£50

⬇️See below for more info!⬇️
www.york.ac.uk/education/re...
Outstanding curriculum design for Primary Languages
www.york.ac.uk
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
📢 Upcoming MFL CPD @UniOfYork 📢

🎓 Outstanding curriculum design for Primary Languages

🗓️Monday 31st March 2025
⏰16:00-17:30 (Online via Zoom)
🏷️£50

⬇️See below for more info!⬇️
www.york.ac.uk/education/re...
Outstanding curriculum design for Primary Languages
www.york.ac.uk
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
📢 Upcoming MFL CPD @UniOfYork 📢

🎓 Outstanding curriculum design for Primary Languages

🗓️Monday 31st March 2025
⏰16:00-17:30 (Online via Zoom)
🏷️£50

⬇️See below for more info!⬇️
www.york.ac.uk/education/re...
Outstanding curriculum design for Primary Languages
www.york.ac.uk
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
✨Visit the new LDP website!✨

ldpedagogy.york.ac.uk

All of our work can now be found on one, more intuitive and sustainable platform. It gives easy access to NCELP's work (2018-2023) and our extensive suite of freely available, research-informed, and fully editable resources.
Language-Driven Pedagogy
Understanding, improving, and promoting language learning
ldpedagogy.york.ac.uk
March 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Just released!: The first of Oak's new, *free and fully adaptable* French, German, and Spanish resources for KS3 and GCSE (aligned to both AQA/Edexcel) produced in partnership with Rachel Hawkes @camacademytrust.bsky.social, director of Language-Driven Pedagogy

www.thenational.academy/teachers
Free, time-saving teacher resources | Oak National Academy
Explore our free, time-saving teacher resources from Oak National Academy. Browse and download worksheets, quizzes and slides from KS1 to KS4.
www.thenational.academy
January 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
SPRING CPD

Join us at our live, online interactive sessions delivered by @york.ac.uk and @camacademytrust.bsky.social. We will:
-look in-depth at MFL curriculum design and pedagogy,
-provide practical tips and effective activities to use in the classroom.

Book here: www.york.ac.uk/education/re...
Continuing Professional Development
The partnership between The University of York and the Cam Academy Trust strives to bring together research and practice to improve language curriculum design and pedagogy, leading to a higher take up...
www.york.ac.uk
January 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
📢 Upcoming MFL CPD @UniOfYork 📢

🎓Decolonising and diversifying the languages curriculum from KS2 to KS4: practical ideas, new perspectives and free resources.

🗓️Monday 3rd February 2025
⏰16:00-17:30 (Online via Zoom)
🏷️£50

⬇️See below for more info!⬇️

www.york.ac.uk/education/re...
Decolonising the curriculum
Decolonising and diversifying the languages curriculum from KS2 to KS4: practical ideas, new perspectives and free resources.
www.york.ac.uk
January 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
In collaboration with South West Institute for teaching LDP will deliver 5 CPD sessions on 'Outstanding Curriculum Design for Secondary Languages'. These include practical ideas/resources that build confidence and are suitable for all learners! #MFL

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/outstandin...
Outstanding Curriculum Design for Secondary Languages Programme
Join us for tips and tricks on creating an awesome curriculum for secondary language programmes.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
📢 UPCOMING MFL CPD @york.ac.uk 📢

🎓 Running the Language-Driven Pedagogy Scheme of Work from Year 9 into Year 10
🗓️ Monday 20th January 2025 and Monday 24th February 2025
⏰ 16:30 - 18:00

⬇️ See below for more info! ⬇️
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https://www.york.ac.uk/education/research/language-driven-pedagogy/professional-development/running-our-ldp-sow-from-year-9-into-year-10/
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January 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
📢 NEW FOR 2025 📢

🎓 Running the Language-Driven Pedagogy Scheme of Work from Year 9 into Year 10
🗓️ Monday 20th January 2025 and Monday 24th February 2025
⏰ 16:30 - 18:00
🏷️ £100

⬇️ See below for more info! ⬇️

www.york.ac.uk/education/re...
Running the Language-Driven Pedagogy Scheme of Work from Year 9 into Year 10
A two-session workshop on adapting Language-Driven Pedagogy resources for Year 9 and how to integrate these within the Year 10 and 11 Schemes of Work.
www.york.ac.uk
December 19, 2024 at 11:53 AM
📢 Just published! 📢

Marsden, E. & Hawkes, R. (2024). Balancing evidence-informed language policy and pragmatic considerations: Lessons from the MFL GCSE reforms in England. Languages, Society and Policy. www.lspjournal.com/post/balanci...
Post | LSP
www.lspjournal.com
December 17, 2024 at 4:10 PM