INTERVIEWS & ADMISSIONS
Subject Knowledge Audit – MFL
Please self-grade and identify the source/s of your knowledge for each of the topics listed below.
Source of Knowledge / Skills (write one or two codes):
N
None (or below GCSE)
G
GCSE (or O Level)
A
Advanced Level (including AVCE,
HNC)
D
P
W
Degree Level (including HND)
Post-graduate
Work-related training
Current Level of Knowledge / Skill (write one grade only):
4
3
2
1
Little or No Secure Knowledge.
Basic Personal Knowledge up to GCSE level, however you are not fully aware of possible
misconceptions and how to address them and you may inadvertently reinforce
misconceptions.
Secure knowledge / skill up to GCSE that would enable you to teach this to pupils. You
would be aware of the common misconceptions in this skill area and you would be able to
address these in a lesson.
Secure knowledge / skill up to A Level standard.
Name:
Skill / Knowledge
Gender
Articles
Adjectival agreement
Possessive adjectives
Adverbs
Regular verb paradigms
Irregular verb paradigms
Present tense
Perfect tense
Imperfect tense
Future tense
Conditional tense
Conditional perfect
Future perfect
Passive voice
Subjunctive
Word order
Pronouns
Reflexive verbs
Date:
Source
N/G/A/D/P/W
Level
0/1/2/3/4
Prepositions
Modal verbs
Conjunctions
French cinema, incl cinema terminology
Modern literature
Modern society (incl media, new technologies, marriage,
health, environmental issues, wealth and poverty, crime and
punishment, immigration)
Knowledge Grade
0
1
2
None or recalled from own experience as pupil/student
Outline knowledge based on general reading or hearsay
Detailed knowledge based on specialist reading or recent
experience of schools
MFL EDUCATION TOPIC
National Curriculum for MFL KS2-4 (new from 2014 – KS2/3 and from 2016-KS4)
Regulations and Codes of Practice for GCSE MFL
GCSE syllabuses for MFL
Specifications for AS and A level
National Language Standards for NVQ
Research findings re MFL performance
Research into effective MFL teaching
Research into common errors and misconceptions held by pupils
Published schemes and sources and text books
The use of IT in MFL teaching
Approaches to teaching MFL to low attaining pupils
Ofsted data re MFL performance
Role of cultural awareness in MFL
Place of primary MFL
Appropriate use of target language in the MFL classroom
Methods of differentiation in MFL
Additional relevant information (optional):
KNOWLEDGE
GRADE
(0 or 1 or 2)