The document discusses strategies for creating more effective language learners at Key Stage 3 and 4 in secondary schools. It provides links to resources for building learning skills, implementing group work activities, using online dictionaries and language apps, encouraging pronunciation practice with text-to-speech tools, designing avatars, memorizing vocabulary, giving feedback via online platforms, and editing audio recordings. The overall goal is to help students improve their foreign language abilities at those school levels.

1. Creating more effective Learners at KS3 and KS4
Creating more effective learners at KS3 and KS4
SSAT National Language Conference 2012
Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages, The Radclyffe School, Oldham
@icpjones http://twitter.com/icpjones
A full downloadable copy of the slides used for this showcase will be available from:
My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
Building Learning Power http://www.buildinglearningpower.co.uk/
SOLO Taxonomy http://pamhook.com/
FLIP lessons for MFL-The Cramlington model
http://isabellejones.blogspot.com/2009/10/flip-cramlington-model-for-developing.html
http://isabellejones.blogspot.com/2009/10/flip-approach-for-languages-at.html
Classtools (PLTS templates) http://classtools.net
Group talk video and resources http://www.teachfind.com/teachers-tv/mfl-implementing-group-talk-
initiative-and-other-strategies
Word reference, free online dictionaries, apps and language fora
http://www.wordreference.com
Le Robert-Dixel http://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/le-robert-dictionnaire-dixel/id324277188?mt=8
Verb apps and verb tables http://www.bescherelle.com/
http://www.elconjugador.com/enindex.php?newlang=Y&langvalue=en
Free text-to-speech facility to encourage students to practise their pronunciation on their own
http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/
Design an avatar and make them speak the foreign language with your own voice or text-to-
speech http://voki.com/
cueprompter (to help student memorize key language) http://cueprompter.com/
Edmodo (to share materials and give individualised feedback) http://www.edmodo.com/home
My apps google spreadsheet: join, add and share : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?
key=0AjQhXECgd8S1dHQ1TVVZUlQ4aTdEeW03TWJnN2t6cEE&authkey=CP-j5ZEP
Audacity free sound editing software http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/