A survey of MFL teachers’ classroom procedures and tools

NOTE Please see my Twitter profile to find the poll tweets. You can respond there. @spsmith45

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 For my own interest, and perhaps that of MFL (World Language) teachers, I’m going to do some Twitter polls on what types of classroom procedures and tools teachers commonly use. Totally unscientific, of course, but with enough responses it should give some indication of what teachers are up to in their classrooms.

I want to find out how much MFL teachers are using the following:

Digital apps for vocab learning

Sentence builders (substitution tables)

Choral repetition

Pupils reading aloud

Language learning games

Teacher-led question and answer (‘circling’)

Translating sentences or paragraphs into L1 and L2

Dictation or transcription tasks

Narrow reading or listening tasks

Information gap tasks

Task-based activities (eg class surveys)

Choral reading aloud

Audiolingual-style (mechanical) drills (eg ‘change one element in my sentence’j

Group work

Story construction

‘Milling around’ activities

Carousel work

Copying out grammar notes

Traditional written vocab tests

Quiet reading (eg graded readers or free voluntary reading)

Knowledge Organiser booklets (with parallel texts)

Singing along

Verb chanting or singing

I may think of others in due course. When I have collated my findings, I’ll write a further post. Let’s see whether you are in the mainstream or not!