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Steve Smith
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French teacher 33 years, now writing materials frenchteacher.net, blogs and books about language teaching.
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · Sep 2
Do take a look. There us a LOT of material in my new book. Thanks to those who have bought a copy. amzn.eu/d/bFDHCqT
Thinking about Language Teaching Volume 1: Amazon.co.uk: Smith, Steve: 9798296131423: Books
Buy Thinking about Language Teaching Volume 1 by Smith, Steve (ISBN: 9798296131423) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 16h
My chat with Will Marks on his podcast The Language Lab. www.iheart.com/podcast/1333...
Steve Smith, EPI and Why Grammar Drill Isn’t the Answer - The Language Lab Podcast | iHeart
<p>Steve Smith — MFL veteran, author, blogger, and founder of <a href='https://www.frenchteacher.net' target='_blank' rel='ugc noopener noreferrer'>FrenchTeacher.net</a> — joins Will Marks for a full-...
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 16h
From the archive. frenchteachernet.blogspot.com/2025/07/what...
What it means to ‘know grammar’ and why this is important
Introduction Here’s an issue which crops up when a teacher says something like this to me “But students have to know grammar to speak and wr...
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 7h
A nice summary of grammar teaching techniques. www.linkedin.com/posts/gianfr...
Top 10 research-backed grammar teaching techniques. Effective grammar teaching combines more than one technique, of course, and relies on multimodality. In EPI we use nearly all of these techniques… |...
Top 10 research-backed grammar teaching techniques. Effective grammar teaching combines more than one technique, of course, and relies on multimodality. In EPI we use nearly all of these techniques, f...
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 11h
Not sure what you mean.
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 14h
The view from here. Hell’s Gates, near Noosa, Queensland.
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 15h
That wasn’t meant as a poor joke.
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 15h
A book recommendation for you. The Dry by Jane Harper. Crime genre. We are in Oz now and wanted something set here.
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 15h
I think many do, but I think the reality is that there are no short-cuts to acquisition.
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 15h
Such a hate mongerer. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues
Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 16h
Yes, although researchers might say we all have the basic ‘brain architecture’, there’s no doubt students vary to a degree in how they approach language learning.
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 16h
Yes, proficiency is a lot about the amount of input, repetition and communication. ‘Knowing’ grammar helps a bit.
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 16h
From the archive. frenchteachernet.blogspot.com/2025/07/what...
What it means to ‘know grammar’ and why this is important
Introduction Here’s an issue which crops up when a teacher says something like this to me “But students have to know grammar to speak and wr...
frenchteachernet.blogspot.com
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 16h
My chat with Will Marks on his podcast The Language Lab. www.iheart.com/podcast/1333...
Steve Smith, EPI and Why Grammar Drill Isn’t the Answer - The Language Lab Podcast | iHeart
<p>Steve Smith — MFL veteran, author, blogger, and founder of <a href='https://www.frenchteacher.net' target='_blank' rel='ugc noopener noreferrer'>FrenchTeacher.net</a> — joins Will Marks for a full-...
www.iheart.com
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 1d
Don’t forget. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FN7BSTX...
Thinking about Language Teaching Volume 1
Buy Thinking about Language Teaching Volume 1 by Smith, Steve (ISBN: 9798296131423) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 1d
A Multilingual Ladder. Asset Languages (Languages Ladder) did something similar, but died owing to lack of money, school buy-in and government commitment. I always thought it was a good idea. Like music grades. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A multilingual ladder?*
Following recent calls for alternative assessment routes, or for a stepped frame of accreditation for languages in England based on the Languages Ladder Assessment Scheme (LLAS), of which Asset Lan...
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 1d
The state of play in primary languages in England. Unsurprising findings, with time, teacher expertise and good curriculum design being key factors. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Is progression in primary languages possible? Reflections from a large-scale longitudinal research study
The Curriculum and Assessment Review’s Interim Report (CAR [2025]. Interim Report. Crown Copyright. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6821d69eced319d02c9060e3/Curriculum_and_Assessment...
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 1d
We have been working on the second edition of our listening handbook Breaking the Sound Barrier. We aim to publish in the new year.
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 1d
Listening-as-modelling summed up clearly by Gianfranco. gianfrancoconti.com/2025/10/08/h...
How to make listening actually drive acquisition: Ten staples of Listening as Modelling
Introduction Listening is not a passive skill. It is the most cognitively demanding of all receptive modes and, paradoxically, the least explicitly taught.In the Extensive Processing Instruction (E…
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 1d
However, re primary, the ‘one language’ approach can work well with the right expertise. Flexibility needed here?
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 1d
This paper also makes the case fir a languages ladder. Also moving beyond the three pillars (good!) and focusing on languages awareness at primary (also good imo). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Modern languages in England’s national curriculum: a call for (r)evolution!
In this article, we offer a personal response to the interim report of the Curriculum and Assessment Review (CAR: Department forEducation (Dfe). 2025. Curriculum and Assessment Review: Interim Repo...
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 1d
This paper by Barrie Hunt argues for returning to a Languages Ladder model of assessment incorporated within GCSE. Interesting. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Addressing challenges in UK MFL education: is fundamental reform necessary?
This paper undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the current issues in MFL education, advocating fundamental reform based on the Languages Ladder. It argues that student motivation can be boosted ...
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 1d
An important new collection of papers in the context of the Curriculum and Assessment Review in England. www.tandfonline.com/journals/rll...
Language Education in the Curriculum
Explore the article collection: Language Education in the Curriculum. Published in The Language Learning Journal.
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 1d
“We believe that the curriculum needs to move beyond a framing of language education as a process of memorising and reproducing isolated building blocks towards one that instead focuses on a more holistic development of languages and young people” blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...
Rethinking language education: evidence for England’s Curriculum and Assessment Review
Language education in school has significant transformational potential in terms of learners’ right to a well-rounded education and the enhancement of their life chances… (read more)
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Steve Smith @spsmith45.bsky.social · 2d
About my new book. If you have already read it, a review on Amazon would be most welcome! frenchteachernet.blogspot.com/2025/08/thin...
Thinking About Language Teaching Volume 1
I'm pleased to let you know that my latest book on language teaching is out and available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle format. It's ca...
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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