I am very pleased with our E24 / Y10 GCSE Spanish students’ response to the increasing demands of their foreign language course. Nearly all the tasks that they complete in sessions are taken from higher tier material, and to complement the work covered in Academic Crew on Thoughtful Thursdays, we’re exploring ways to develop retention and recall of key vocabulary and structures in extended text.
Here, our E24 linguists are following the running text protocol, sending a student in their group to memorise a section of Spanish text, who then reports back to the others to recreate the original, before the two versions are compared for accuracy and then exploited further in sessions. Despite the selection of more challenging subject matter, some groups’ recall of this extended text was word-perfect!