The Language of Sport.
The Youth Sport Trust recognises the value of language learning, and in collaboration with the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), is supporting this innovative area of work.
Over 34 pages, author Bev Whiteside in collaboration with ten schools and many leading figures sets out how the two curriculum areas can be linked leading to increased engagement and improved results.
Areas covered include:
- Improving engagement and motivation
- Raising the profile of languages
- The French Ski Survival kit DVD - case study
- Language leaders
- Transferring thinking skills across different subject areas
- "Topfit" pilot scheme
- Linking Japanese with Judo
- Handball through Spanish
- Le tour de Mountbatten
- Thinking about thinking - sport and languages
- Festivals of languages and sport
- Language learning through sports leadership
