Since July 2009, CILT has been working on a cross-phase project to look at transitions within and across languages education from Year 7 through key stages 3 and 4 to post-16 and HE. A strong focus on intercultural understanding, what this is and how it informs and impacts on teaching and learning, has been pivotal to this project.

The project has involved 10 Local Authorities working with languages advisers and teachers and involving HE partners. Use the left-hand menu to explore each of these projects and to download examples of the work they have produced.

Aims

Our aims are that the impact of this work will encourage:

• A coherent approach to planning and teaching across Key Stages 3, 4 and post-16.
• Transparency in linguistic progression for teachers and learners.
• Teachers and learners to engage with complex language and concepts that embed language learning as a life-long skill for living and working at home and abroad.
• An increase in motivated, more autonomous language learners who are confident in how to learn languages and who recognise the benefits of their knowledge of languages and cultures in preparing for the adult world.
• Greater number of students taking languages post-16 and continuing into post-19 courses.