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City Languages StrategyThe strategy can be downloaded in PDF format here (329KB).
The Forum is very pleased to present the City Languages Strategy that was launched in Europe Week in March 2004. Sheffield’s strategy is only the second of its kind in the UK.
The Strategy was the result of over a year’s consultations and meetings of a Partnership Group, chaired by the Forum, which brought together stakeholders from across all sectors of education, nursery and early years to higher, from business and from the City Council. The membership of the Partnership Group can be found on page 2 of the Strategy document. The main author is Geoff Swinn, the Languages Strategy Adviser at Sheffield LEA.
The Forum would welcome comments on the Strategy and its implementation and these may be sent by email to info@multilingcity.org.uk or by post to: The MultiLingual City Forum. Alternatively comments can be sent to Geoff Swinn at the address on page 35 of the Strategy, or by email to geoff.swinn@sheffield.gov.uk.
The Strategy and its contents on this website are copyrighted to Sheffield City Council.
We are now in the implementation stage. The partnership group is still functioning, involving a cross-section of language interests in the city. Can you help? Please contact us if you can!
The Sheffield strategy and its implementation is with reference to the National Languages Strategy
National Languages Strategy
This was launched on December 19th 2002. It has three ‘overarching aims’:
· to improve teaching and learning of languages. Central here is the delivery by 2010 of an ‘entitlement’ to language learning to be offered to all pupils at Key Stage 2 (ages 7 - 10+).
· to introduce, alongside existing qualifications, a ‘recognition system’ of language skills. A ‘ladder of recognition’ is envisaged to accredit language skills from beginner level to A level. Community languages will be included in this system, which will be voluntary.
· to increase the number of people studying languages in further and higher education, and in work-based training.
The Strategy can be downloaded from the DfES website at http://www.dfes.gov.uk/languages/DSP_nationallanguages.cfm
To have more information about languages nationally, see the website for the National Centre for Languages: http://www.cilt.org.uk/