SCILT is committed to supporting research into languages education at local, national and international level.
Recent SCILT research:
Language Learning in Scotland: A 1+2 Approach - The final report and recommendations for language learning in Scotland from the Scottish Government's Languages Working Group. Published in May 2012.
Modern Languages Excellence Group Report - The recently published Modern Languages Excellence Group Report offers a blueprint to secure, promote and enhance the provision of Modern Languages in Scotland. It does this by demonstrating the vital importance to Scotland of developing the language skills of our young people and by exemplifying how, through Curriculum for Excellence, this can be achieved. Published March 2011.
Language Trends in Scotland - Analysis of published SQA statistics on language trends in Scottish schools since 2003. Last updated December 2010.
Other sources of research:
Début - Début: The Undergraduate Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies is an online peer-reviewed journal for students published by LLAS.
Journal of Teacher Education and Teachers' Work - Strathclyde University's journal of teacher education. Access is free.
ITALIC - Based at Aberdeen University, this project looks at motivation to learn and student 'gains' in classrooms where a modern language is the medium for learning new content knowledge - CLIL.
Bilingualism Matters – Project investigating bilingualism in Scotland.
Piccolingo - The European Union campaign to develop foreign language awareness and skills in children of pre-school age.
Research carried out by CILT, the National Centre for Languages.
