Reports on language education
The following collection lists some reports and other material relevant to language education in the UK (and therefore to CLiE).
- 2020.1: Language teaching in schools (England) (House of Commons Library)
- 2020.1: Boys studying modern foreign languages at GCSE in schools in England (Part 1. Schools that are beating the odds, by Bobbie Mills, Education Policy Institute; Part 2. What makes an odds-beating school? by Teresa Tinsley, Alcantara Communications)
- 2020.1: A Languages Crisis?A report (written by Megan Bowler, an undergraduate) published by the Higher Education Policy Institute.
- A lovely blog about the language crisis by John Claughton
- A reply blog by Megan Bowler advocating linguistics both at school and in HE.
- 2019.11: The ECML (European Centre for Modern Languages) project on Developing language awareness in subject classes.
- 2019.10: Education Endowment Fund: Integrating English.
- The project found that a teaching programme called “Language in Learning Across the Curriculum (LiLAC)” had no effect on EAL learners’ writing.
- 2019.8: Telegraph: Re top grades at A-level, Foreign Languages score very high but English Language scores very low.
- Contrast 2018: Inter-subject comparability …
- 2019.7: Education Endowment Fund: Improving literacy in secondary schools.
- The report recommends the explicit teaching of the special language of each subject – see our resources on subject language.
- 2019.5: The British Academy: Cognitive Benefits of Language Learning: Broadening our Perspectives, by Professor Bencie Woll FBA and Professor Li Wei
- 2019.2: The British Academy, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society: Languages in the UK: a call for action.
- 2019: RIPL White Paper. Primary Languages Policy in England – The Way Forward (By Bernardette Holmes and Florence Myles; including a one-page summary)
- 2018: Inter-subject comparability in A level sciences and modern foreign languages. Examining the claim that these subjects are more severely graded than other A levels
- 2017. 9: The Royal Society and the Education Endowment Fund: Review of SES and Science Learning in Formal Educational Settings. (concludes that the main causal link between social class and attainment in science is via literacy)
- 2016.12: Teaching Schools Council: Modern Languages Pedagogy (the Bauckham report).
- 2014: The British Academy: Born Global: Implications for Higher Education by Bernardette Holmes
- 2013: The British Academy: Languages: The state of the nation.
- 2013: The British Academy and Cumberland Lodge: Multilingual Britain.
- 2013: Myhill, Debra, Susan Jones, Helen Lines & Annabel Watson. 2012. Re-Thinking Grammar: the Impact of Embedded Grammar Teaching on Students’ Writing and Students’ Metalinguistic Understanding. Research Papers in Education 27. 139–166.
- 2014:Torgerson, David, Carole Torgerson, Natasha Mitchell, Hannah Buckley, Hannah Ainsworth, Clare Heaps & Laura Jefferson. 2014. Grammar for Writing. Evaluation Report and Executive Summary. Education Endowment Fund.
- 2019: Tracey, Louise, Jan Boehnke, Louise Elliott, Kate Thorley, Sarah Ellison & Claudine Bowyer-Crane. 2019. Grammar for Writing. Evaluation report and executive summary. London: Education Endowment Foundation.
- 2012: Lessons from abroad: International review of primary languages
- 2012: Moving English forward: action to raise standards in English (OFSTED report)
- 2011: Report of the Inquiry into Overcoming the Barriers to Literacy. (All-party Parliamentary Group for Education)
- 2010: The training of teachers. (House of Commons select committee report; #27: PGCE applicants with 2.1 or first-class degree in FL (43%) versus English (73%).
- 2009: Review of modern foreign languages provision in higher education in England (the Worton report).
- 2007: The Languages Review (the Dearing report), by Ron Dearing and Lid King
- 2005: The KS2 Framework for Languages
- 2004: Writing Improvement Matrix (Key Stage 3 National Strategy)
- 2002: DfES: Languages for all: languages for life
- 2002: Grammar for Writing: Supporting pupils learning EAL (Key Stage 3 National Strategy)
- 2001: Year 7 Sentence level Bank (Key Stage 3 National Strategy)
- 1999: Improving literacy and numeracy. A fresh start (The Moser Report)
- 1997: The implementation of the National Literacy Strategy.
- 1994: Evaluation of the Implementation of English in the National Curriculum at Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 (1991-1993) (The Warwick Evaluation)
- 1994: Report of the Commission of Inquiry into English. Balancing literature, language and media in the National Curriculum.
- 1990: A Survey of Language Awareness and Foreign Language Taster Courses. A Report by HM Inspectorate
- 1989: English for ages 5 to 16 (the Cox Report)
- 1988: Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Teaching of English Language (the Kingman Report)
- 1987: Modern foreign languages to 16
- 1984: English from 5 to 16. (HMI revised report; first draft 1982)
- 1977: Modern Languages in Comprehensive Schools
- 1975: A Language for Life (the Bullock report on the teaching of English).
- 1921: The Teaching of English in England (The Newbolt Report)
- 1918: Report of the committee appointed by the Prime Minister to enquire into the position of modern languages in the educational system of Great Britain (The Leathes Report).
For a longer historical timescale, there’s a massive, and possibly complete, historical collection of documents including reports on education.
