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Confidence is everything
Students always benefit from confidence when learning, but sometimes the need for confidence is doubly important. For all of us, when we start studying a new subject, confidence can be low simply because we generally don’t have the background or reference points to help us when something is not clear. As a result, we can easily feel lost.
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
As it is 14th February next week, here’s a little French Valentine’s Day poem for you!
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Music is the food of knowledge
Just as young children learn the language they hear around them in infancy, so there is a similar inborn inclination to respond to music. Children of course realise that they feel good when music comes their way, and so they respond through movement as a way of expressing their pleasure – which in turn is…
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Teaching phonics to aid pronunciation
I am in the group of pupils who (a while ago now!) did not have grammar and punctuation taught in their English lessons. This made learning other languages quite a challenge. Clare Seccombe, an MFL teacher and consultant in the north-east of England, has written a very interesting blog about teaching Spanish phonics. Clare trained…
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Why do we enjoy singing and dancing?
… because it creates an emotional response. Did you manage to join Catherine Cantin and Joe Dale with their webinar on Singing and Dancing in the Primary MFL Classroom? If you were unable to make it, don’t worry. You can watch it on Joe Dale’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfbjg9wuzLM In an early section of the webinar…
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Why use songs and actions to teach languages?
Many of us who listen to popular music find that although we have never tried to learn the lyrics, we can in fact recall them for a large number of such songs.
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
If you could put any of our books on your Christmas list, which would you choose? OK, I realise that our books are unlikely to appear very near the top of anyone’s Christmas list. (We can always wish!) But if there is one book of ours that you’d really like to own and haven’t yet…
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
Welcome back after half term! I hope you had a good break. Guess how many trade visitors attended this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair This year’s fair was noticeably smaller than in pre-Covid years, taking up only 3 of the 10 halls at the Frankfurt Messe. Therefore, it came as a surprise for me to read that…
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The play is the thing
Children enjoy imagining, and then acting out the situations. Which is why a simple play in French can stimulate children’s progress in studying the language.
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications? (13 October 2022)
Today is ‘National Train Your Brain Day’ in the United States. I thought it was a fun thing to celebrate. What do you like to do to stimulate your brain?
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