Making pedagogical links between languages: exploring how teachers are responding to the crosslinguistic and interdisciplinary challenges in the Languages, Literacy and Communication AoLE

Abstract

At a time of significant curriculum reform in Wales, this study sought to establish the perceptions of teachers of Welsh, English and international languages in secondary English-medium schools in Wales to the grouping of their languages into a curriculum area of Language, Literacy and Communication, an understanding of the challenges they are facing as well as their confidence in in the pedagogical practices needed to teach elements of What Matters statement 1: Languages connect us. The assumptions explored were that teachers of Welsh, English and international languages are having significant issues with teaching What Matters statement 1: Languages connect us, crosslinguistic influence between the languages taught in Wales is beneficial to pupils and teachers and exploiting this benefit requires new or different pedagogy. This vii 4.3 Part B: Quantitative Analysis 4.3.1 Statistical Analysis .