Foreign Language Education: Unlocking Reading (FLEUR) - A study into the teaching of reading to beginner learners of French in secondary school

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A sense of making progress at the start of Year 7 is crucial to sustaining motivation and hence enabling further progress in Modern Foreign Languages (Graham, Courtney, Tonkyn & Marinis, 2016). In particular, learners need to rapidly develop the foundation literacy skills essential at Key Stage 3 and 4, as well as a sense of self-efficacy or confidence to enable them to persevere with language learning. Our study therefore aimed to strengthen the evidence base on which teach...

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Authors: Woore, R; Graham, S; Porter, A; Courtney, L; Savory, C

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publication date: 2018-11-22
• Language: English
• Keywords: French; second language reading; strategy instruction; phonics; modern foreign languages; reading strategies