Year 9 MFL Survey

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Year 9 MFL Survey

• The Results!

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52 Students filled in surveys

• Students were picked at random across the full
  ability range and asked to be honest about their
  experiences in MFL

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How likely to choose a language as an option?

• Very likely 19
• Likely 15
• Unlikely 12
• Very unlikely - 6

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What do students enjoy?

• The lessons are well prepared
• A friendly environment
• The lessons are fun
• We can share our opinions with the traffic light
  cards
• GAMES!
• Learning new words (lots of students put this)
• I mostly like my teacher Miss Dawson (!)

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What do students least enjoy?

• The writing part
• TESTS!
• Exercises where you only write 1a.
• Copying vocab
• Grammar because it is boring
• The pressure to do well in a test

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Rate the quality of teaching and learning

• Very high 22
• High 28
• Low 2
• Very low - 0

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Why is this?

• Good environment to learn
• All MFL teachers have a great sense of humour
• Teachers make lessons interesting
• All the teachers are organised
• Because they are good with disruptive students
• Because the teachers are always doing their best
• They are very good teachers, and are fair
• A variety of techniques
• Because Mr Osram (sic) is cool

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How could we improve?

• Less using whiteboards
• Use whiteboards more
• Less pressure about tests
• Making lessons partly full of fun and games
• Less writing, more games!
• After school clubs

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Why wouldnt you choose MFL?

• Not getting the teacher you wanted
• All the coursework
• The amount of tests