The DfE proposal for changing GCSE in French, German and Spanish: further information

 

• 2022: Official summary of all the responses
  • The British Academy’s response
  • ALL response
  • Comment in
    • The Guardian
    • The Times
• 2021: Revised Subject Content specification for MFL at GCSE
  • CLiE’s response
  • Consolidated comments of a wide range of Fellows of the British Academy
  • Official comments from other organisations:
    • The British Academy and 13 other organisations on cultural learning
    • UCML
    • APPG
    • ALL
      • three webinars on the consultation
    • ISMLA 
    • ASCL
    • The Future of Languages
  • Background information:
    • Information on how the review was set up and conducted, resulting from a Freedom of Information request.
    • Helpful background on the aims of the revision.
    • More background from the Association for Language Learning (ALL)
    • A briefing paper by AQA.
    • For comparison, the existing specifications (since 2016)
    • Some comparative tables highlighting the changes.
  • Informal comments:
    • comment by Michelle Sheehan and colleagues
    • comment by Richard Hudson
    • blog by Esmeralda Salgado listing strengths and weaknesses of the proposal.
    • A similar blog by Steve Smith.
    • And another blog by Steve Smith.
  • Research:
    • A survey of the attitudes of 614 MFL teachers in secondary schools in England.