Making Every MFL Lesson Count

James A. Maxwell’s ‘Making Every MFL Lesson Count: Six principles to support modern foreign language teaching’ shows modern foreign languages (MFL) teachers how they can take their students on a learning journey that both educates and inspires.

Writing in the practical, engaging style of the award-winning ‘Making Every Lesson Count’, experienced MFL teacher James A. Maxwell empowers educators with the strategies and know-how to boost their students attainment, engagement and enthusiasm in the MFL classroom.

‘Making Every MFL Lesson Count’ is underpinned by six pedagogical principles – challenge, explanation, modelling, practice, feedback and questioning – and helps MFL teachers ensure that students leave their lessons with richer vocabulary, a better grasp of grammar and the skills and confidence to put the language learnt into practice. Bursting with templates, examples and flexible frameworks, this gimmick-free guide provides educators with a range of practical techniques designed to enhance their students linguistic awareness and help them transfer the target language into long-term memory.

James skilfully marries evidence-based practice with collective experience and, in doing so, inspires a challenging approach to secondary school MFL teaching. Furthermore, he concludes each chapter with a series of questions that will inspire reflective thought and encourage teachers to relate the content to their own classroom practice.

Suitable for MFL teachers of students aged 11-18 years.