New Secondary Curriculum
Association for Language Learning (ALL)
The Key Stage 3 MFL Framework
The revised MFL Key Stage 3 Framework has now been published:
The Framework is non statutory but reinforces good teaching strategies
in MFL teaching and brings MFL in line with other subjects under the KS3
Strategy approach.
For the implementation of the Framework to be successful it needs to be
used regularly, planned, resourced and practised by the MFL department
as a team.
The framework lists objectives to be achieved over the three years of
Key Stage 3. They are divided into five strands: words, sentences, texts
(reading and writing), speaking and listening, and cultural knowledge.
The Framework covers KS3 with yearly breakdowns. The objectives are set
out year on year as follows:
- Year 7 - pupils receive a firm foundation of foreign language
learning
- Year 8 - the objectives reflect this secure start and promote
acceleration in language acquisition
- Year 9 - the objectives are designed to promote pupils' independence
as language learners
It is up to schools to decide when to teach what objectives within
that year.
- The objectives are non language specific
- There is no grammar section as such but it supports word, sentence
and text learning
- They can be done earlier or later than the year that is specified
- They are not to be done necessarily in the order given
- They do not all require the same amount of teaching time
- Importance of creativity
- Importance of spontaneous expression by pupils
- Maximum use of Target language but not at the cost of clarity
Long term planning: there is no need to rewrite existing schemes of
work but the objectives must be slotted into them. This
is bound to lead to
less reliance on textbooks with for instance the teaching
of the past tense in Year 7.
Short term planning: when planning individual lessons make sure that
lesson objectives are linguistic and not situational or topical. One time
consuming but effective way to do so is to make reference to the relevant
Framework objective(s).
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