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Sounding right, sounding white: Interrogating language, race and curriculum in secondary education

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports

Funded by the British Curriculum Forum Curriculum Investigation Grant 2021–2022, this project explored the impact of offering lower KS3 pupils a curriculum that contrasted significantly with the...

Developing language learning across the four nations: sharing innovative and creative approaches

Supported by the University Council of Modern Languages who have supported 30 teacher places for this event. The importance of languages and international communication has grown exponentially in...

International music practices improving English language education

Language teachers use a variety of strategies while teaching. The focus and choices around such strategies range from pedagogical reasons and language development, to concerns around students’...

Reading to dogs in schools: Misguided fad … or effective research-backed intervention?

Reading to dogs (RTD) interventions in schools are increasing in popularity and prevalence. At the same time, educational policy and discourse addressing falling levels of children’s wellbeing...

Karen Forbes

Karen Forbes is an associate professor in second language education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Before completing her PhD in 2016, Karen taught modern languages in...

Inequalities in language learning: What are they and how can we fix them?

Young people in the UK are less likely to study a language in upper secondary school than their European peers, and not just because they already speak English (European Commission, 2017). In...

Literacy and Language SIG Convenor Vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor Members of this SIG have interests in exploring the relationship between language and literacy and work in related fields, such as cultural studies and multi-modality (the...

Dilemma and tensions of Englishes in educational settings: What can English teachers do to advocate multilingual justice?

The critique against native speakerism, the belief that the English language is the property of native English speakers so that any teaching, learning, speaking, and anything associated with...

‘Learning for All’

BERA funded six small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants supported projects which examine educational provision in its widest sense that seeks to provide or...

Majority of British Pakistanis are actually Kashmiris (who speak Pahari)

Since 1991 our schools have been gathering ethnicity data. This has helped us to know how many children were from which ethnic group and what language they spoke. The exception has been children...

Teacher language: Help or hindrance to classroom learning

Communication between teacher and pupil is vital to pupil learning in the classroom. Usually, the focus is concentrated on the development of a pupil’s communication skills and not those of the...

Thoughts on the inspection of early reading

Providers of initial teacher training (ITT) in England are inspected by the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted). As members of a university ITT primary English team, we were prompted to...