Modern Languages Booklist 2024-25
Introductory Reading List
Please read the following very short documents before September:
DfE (2013) The National Curriculum (secondary and primary). London, DfE at
In addition, you will find it helpful to look through these documents; we will be looking at them more closely in the first week of the course:
Modern Foreign Languages Pedagogy Review (2016)
British Council strategy proposal (2020)
If you wish to get a start by reading about approaches and methods, the first book below is strongly recommended (older versions can be found):
Pachler, N. Evans, M. Redondo, A. and Fisher, L. (2014) Learning to Teach Foreign Languages in the Secondary School. Oxford, Routledge.
You could also read:
Pachler, N. and Redondo, A. (2014) A Practical Guide to Teaching Modern Foreign Languages in the Secondary School. Oxford, Routledge.
On language acquisition/learning, see:
Lightbown, P.M. and Spada, N. (2013) How Languages are Learned. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
The following is a very useful introduction to key issues in modern language teaching:
Driscoll, P. Macaro, E. and Swarbrick, A. (2014) Debates in Modern Languages Education. Oxford, Routledge
The following has useful practice advice:
Smith, S. and Conti, G. (2016) The Language Teacher Toolkit. Publisher place unknown, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Language-Teacher-Toolkit-Steven-Smith/dp/1523214821 Further advice about practical and theoretical literature will be issued in the subject handbook, given to you on arrival in September.