If there are any MFL teachers around, can anyone explain the point of a DC learning, by heart, 1 and a half sides of an A4 sheet of written language (by themselves) so as to regurgitate it over an hour under exam conditions in a couple of weeks' time?
I genuinely don't know what it's supposed to test! I mean, I could learn a couple of pages of Arabic, given enough time (though admittedly I wouldn't have written the original myself! )- but even though DC wrote it (and had it corrected before being committed to memory) how does this help in their understanding of the MFL and what aspect of ability in that MFL does it test?
Next, if you can help me here, what's the best way for a DC to actually learn it? By remembering the first word of each sentence as a prompt? By 'learning' the English, like, say, if it were French, learn 'What is it that it is?' in order to translate it into the MFL?
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MFL Y10 CA's - Learning long tracts of it by heart...why?
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Tansie · 17/03/2014 19:43
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