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title: "MFL"
url: "https://whitelands-academy.schudio.com/learning-education/curriculum/subjects/mfl"
school: "Whitelands Academy"
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# MFL

## What matters most in MFL?

•    Developing students as confident, spontaneous, accurate communicators
•    Seeing the role of language learning as purposeful in the modern world
•    Ability to adapt and use language in real life contexts
•    Mastering and retaining key linguistic structures over time
•    Fostering a positive appreciation of target language culture and society
•    Challenging monocultural thinking, promoting and embedding multicultural awareness
•    Aiming for self-efficacy – an understanding of how language works and is manipulated

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#### Conceptual Threads

•    Recognising links between spoken and written language and applying this in practice
•    Adapting vocabulary structures to relevant contexts in productive language
•    Using existing knowledge to deduce meaning of unfamiliar language in receptive language and build into productive language
•    Learning to express and justify opinions with increasing complexity
•    Developing my role as a global citizen

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#### Prior Learning (dependent on context)

•    Have supposedly listened to spoken language and shown understanding
•    Have explored patterns through songs/rhymes
•    Have engaged in very short conversations
•    Have expressed very basic opinions
•    Have begun to appreciate the culture by means of stories, songs, poems, traditions and/or rhymes

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