Katy Finch is a PhD student at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on how primary school children learn modern foreign languages and whether learning is the same for monolingual English speaking children and children with English as an Additional Language (EAL). Before starting her PhD, Katy worked as an ESOL teacher around the world and as a primary school teacher in the UK.
Changes to the school curriculum usually offer up a number of challenges for teachers, parents and children alike. In 2014, along with quite sizeable changes to the English and Maths Primary National…