Annabel Westland
Modern Foreign Languages
Myrtle Springs School
The ‘Triples’ project

The objective was to encourage a Y7 mixed ability class to do more speaking in French.

The school did not have sufficient laptop resources and the teacher had not previously used these sound and animation techniques.

The solution

The City Learning Centre hosted two morning sessions for 15 students and an after school training and planning session with the teacher. Timetabling a complete morning at the centre was achieved by using a normal MFL lesson and two free lessons that Annabel had that morning.

The workshop began with role plays and a run through of the easily learned Kar2ouche software. The laptops were easy to use with their built-in microphones and results of the student work could be shown on the interactive white board.

Students recorded and then animated their sessions and played them back on the computer.

The outcomes

The self consciousness usually associated with speaking a foreign language was completely absent among these Y7 pupils. The students are now outperforming other students who did not attend the session and they still speak about the event, although it took place in the autumn term.

The ‘Triples’ project support provided by the City Learning Centre will allow Annabel Westland to repeat the learning experience back at school next time and to introduce the teaching and learning ideas to other colleagues.

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