Sentence examples for pupils language from inspiring English sources

But the researchers from Cambridge University found that moving from primary to secondary schools can be a challenge for pupils' language learning, and primary language teaching was "inconsistent".

So, I began to focus on shifting my pupils' language use explicitly from everyday to abstract, from informal to formal and from spoken-like to written-like.

Children will be writing letters from Katine to their friends in the UK and also letters will be coming from the UK, and that way the pupils' language skills will improve.

And the question goes to the heart of what I believe is a fundamental reason for the attainment gap between children eligible for free school meals and their non-free school meal counterparts in Britain; the misalignment of these pupils' language use with that which is needed for academic success and the need for teachers to explicitly address this misalignment in their teaching.

For teaching our youngest pupils languages I often trawl French teacher websites for ideas and I have used a French story book about a little bear who is starting school and then we do things like counting in French and singing.

Mandarin popular in UK Schools Jump to media player Some schools in the UK are teaching their pupils languages like Mandarin and Arabic rather than the more traditional French and Spanish.

The drop in entries nationally is unsurprising given that languages are perceived as difficult subjects and as many pupils start language learning in earnest at secondary school due to varying levels of language learning at primary school.

Two kids from one of the groups asked some of my pupils what language they were speaking.

Giving a boost to all of her pupils' English language skills, Sale believes, is the best thing headteachers of schools like hers can do.

The contents of this communication are taken from a broader study, which is still being written-up, whose main aim was to detect and analyze the strategies used in the classroom by non-special needs techers to establish communicative relations with pupils with language difficulties.

Some teachers blame new tougher GCSEs for putting lower ability pupils off language learning.