Abbey View Primary School - MFL

MFL - French

Learning a foreign language is a liberation from insularity and provides an opening to other cultures. A high-quality languages education should foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. The teaching should enable pupils to express their ideas and thoughts in another language and to understand and respond to its speakers, both in speech and in writing. It should also provide opportunities for them to communicate for practical purposes, learn new ways of thinking and read great literature in the original language. Language teaching should provide the foundation for learning further languages, equipping pupils to study and work in other countries.

(National Curriculum, DfE)

Our Modern Foreign Languages (‘MFL’) curriculum has been designed to ensure that pupils acquire, use and apply their knowledge of French through the progression of the three knowledge strands (pillars of language)

phonics
vocabulary and
grammar

The learning of each skill starts as structured, supported understanding (listening and reading) and meaningful production (speaking and writing), and gradually builds to freer production, in which learners recall and manipulate a wider range of language to communicate meaning.

What does it mean to get better at French?

Phonics – Pupils can accurately decode sound-symbol correspondence and can pronounce most words accurately from the written form, including those not yet explicitly taught. Pupils can use the produce a potentially accurate spelling of new words.
Vocabulary – Pupils recognise a broad range of words
Grammar – Pupils can understand how the words are ‘glued’ together with grammar