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Research into WoLLoW – Evidence Review

Xiaoying Wu, Oxford Univeristy Department of Education Xiaoying Irene Wu is a DPhil student in Applied Linguistics.  The review argues that WoLLoW can be usefully conceptualised as a theoretically informed language-awareness and plurilingual curriculum that responds constructively to several persistent challenges in primary languages provision. Rather than treating WoLLoW as a finished or universally transferable solution,...

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Research into WoLLoW

Sophie Vauzour, University of East Anglia Sophie Vauzour is an Associate Professor in Education for the Secondary PGCE at UEA. Sophie Carried reserach into the effecriveness of WoLLoW.  It is a pupils’ voice study on primary languages and multilingualism. Her findings show that WoLLoW programme has the potential to foster self-motivation regarding language...

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The WoLLoW conference summary

WoLLoW Conference: 3rd June 2026 Highgate Junior School Dramatis personae [in order of appearance] Philippa Studd, Principal, Highgate Junior SchoolSteffan Griffiths, Head of Norwich School, co-founder of WoLLoWAbbie Dean, teacher of languages and WoLLoW at Norwich School, co-founder of WoLLoWSoofia Amin, Assistant Head Teacher, Kensington Primary School, NewhamDick Hudson, Emeritus...

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WoLLoW Conference 2026 at Highgate Junior School

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WoLLoW Webinar April 2026

The Bell Foundation: How can schools embrace students’ Home, Heritage, and Community languages?

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WoLLoW for the Chartered College of Teaching Next Generation Assessment Conference

Visiting Highgate Junior School to see WoLLoW in action

To ‘WoLLoW’ or not to ‘WoLLoW’, that is the question

World of Languages, Languages of the World

Weekend Reading: The future of languages in a multilingual Britain.

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ASCL SEND Bites with Margaret Mulholland of ASCL, Soofia Amin, Deputy Head at Kensington Primary School in London and John Claughton

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Webinar with Geoff Barton, Chair of the Commission on the Future of Oracy, and John Claughton about WoLLoW and oracy

WoLLoW in Independent Schools Magazine October 2024

Recent article from the October edition of the Independent Schools Magazine

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Transcript of WoLLoW webinar: 16th May 2024

A new approach to primary language teaching can solve the issue of transition to secondary, argues John Claughton

An article written by Mukhtar Mukhlis, a pupil at King Edward’s School, Birmingham, published in The Linguist

A paper from the Pixel Conference in Florence in October 2023

Is the UK wallowing in the past? WoLLoW offers a way to a brighter future. (CIoL)

Have we got languages teaching all wrong?

A Taste for Language

Professor Li Wei

Breaking down barriers: why do we classify some languages as ‘community’ and others as ‘modern’?

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Follow the Hippo

Language Learning in Today’s Schools: how to reverse the decline