Resources to support teachers and language development
This page offers a number of resources to support teachers and language development across the curriculum. It is divided into sections:
- General
- Teaching grammar
- For Primary schools (KS1&2)
- For Secondary schools/ colleges (KS3-5)
- Projects
- Relevant associations
General
- 2018: ESOL provision in the UK
- LLAS – the Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
- Research on how L1 and FL teaching can support each other.
- A Linguistics Research Digest run, as a blog, by Sue Fox, Jenny Cheshire (both at Queen Mary, University of London) and Paul Kerswill (Lancaster University); note also the general links on the right of this page.
- A free online magazine called ‘Unravelling’ about linguistics run by and for students; it started in Singapore but has an international coverage.
- BAAL’s ethical guidelines for good practice in applied linguistics: full version or students’ version
- Paul Kerswill in The Sun, e.g. on the language of The Only Way Is Essex
- NB This is the proof of the article; he had the remark about Australian origins removed from the printed version.
- Paul Kerswill talking about Multicultural London English after the 2011 riots.
Teaching grammar
- Grammar in the classroom – a page about how teachers actually teach grammar.
- Englicious for pupils and teachers.
- The UCL grammar app for teachers.
- The UCL Internet Grammar for anyone, including teachers.
- Grammarianism – Bas Aarts’s blog about grammar teaching.
- Dick Hudson’s page on grammar for KS3 teachers.
- Dick Hudson’s page on grammar in the Secondary Strategy.
- VISL – a Danish page on grammatical analysis, with interactive activities.
- Teaching Grammar – a website dedicated to the theory, practice and history of grammar teaching.
- Lingo Boingo – a small collection of online games (English and French) in grammatical analysis.
For Primary
- Phoneme-grapheme correspondences in different UK accents.
For Secondary
- All Talk: resources for the study of spoken language produced by Tim Shortis and Julie Blake funded by BT.
- The LINC (Language in the National Curriculum) materials on CD
- Emma Moore‘s ‘Language and Identity in the National Curriculum: A Scheme of Work‘
- The linguistics of French, German and Spanish (for providers of PGCE and other Initial Teacher Training courses).
- Two exotic classification systems (from Papua New Guinea), showing how gender and classifiers can be used to classify objects in very different ways.
Projects and organisations
- A scheme developed in Hampshire for training pupils as interpreters to support isolated EAL children.
- IRIS – a free, digital repository for materials used to collect data for research into second languages.
- LCLC – the London Centre for Languages and Cultures, run by Oxford University and the Open University for London Schools.
