https://bsky.app/profile/carmenzs.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/carmenzs.bsky.social/post/3mvco4wfn622mAnd if there is no level playing field we change the rules, making a consultation referendum binding by the power of bullying everyone into calling it the will of the people. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Sep 2026 08:31 +0000at://did:plc:fxbwrap65w22jbvit72oyqyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvco4wfn622mhttps://bsky.app/profile/carmenzs.bsky.social/post/3mun2tdh76k2oYes! Noticing and making sense of language, making hypothesis about how it works and checking if we are understood. This makes so much more sense for language teachers than the model of think in English and translate into the target language pillar by pillar! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Sep 2026 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:fxbwrap65w22jbvit72oyqyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mun2tdh76k2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/carmenzs.bsky.social/post/3mqyjp2evkk2kThere is no catastrophic decline in language learning. Many students who are not taking GCSE are telling me they use Duolingo to learn Spanish and even Korean (no phonics there!). Languages are being killed by irrelevant assessment and the "pillars". https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/07/31/new-report-shows-decline-in-formal-language-learning/19 Jul 2026 10:04 +0000at://did:plc:fxbwrap65w22jbvit72oyqyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqyjp2evkk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/carmenzs.bsky.social/post/3mqyiwpcj3s2x"There is nothing wrong with teaching to the test per se, if the test is right". Michael Gove https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmeduc/uc808-i/uc80801.htm19 Jul 2026 09:50 +0000at://did:plc:fxbwrap65w22jbvit72oyqyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqyiwpcj3s2x