Hilary McColl – Publications

BOOKS

Modern Languages for All by Hilary McColl, published by David Fulton in 2000, now marketed by Routledge: http://www.routledge.com/education/
Chapter 1: Do we really mean ALL? Chapter 2: Maximising Potential*. Chapter 3: Implications for Management. Chapter 4: Notes on access for pupils with additional needs.

Chapter 2 has been reprinted in the Open University's Aspects of Teaching Secondary Modern Languages: Perspectives on Practice, also published by Routledge.

Deaf and Multilingual - a practical guide to teaching and supporting deaf learners in foreign language classes by Judith Mole, Hilary McColl and Micky Vale. Published by Direct Learn in 2006. Available in print and ebook formats from:
http://www.deafshop.co.uk/ashop/catalogue.php?cat=22

MLG Publications
Author and co-author of several titles published by MLG Publishing, including:
Ici on Parle Français
Wir Lernen Deutsch
Se Habla Español
Cartoons for Classroom Communication.
Verbmaster - French

Details here: http://www.mlgpublishing.com

 

CDs
Resources for developing storytelling techniques. The Week before Christmas and Please can I have a pet? Published in French, German, Italian, Spanish and English for beginners. More details here.



RESEARCH

Europe, Language Learning and Special Educational Needs by Hilary McColl, Carol Hewitt and Heather Baldry. Published by SOEID 1997 and disseminated to all mainstream and special secondary schools. Some updated extracts in PDF form are available on this site, with permission. The contents also informed the Maximising Potential programme.

Translating, Interpreting and Communication Support Services across the Public Sector in Scotland: A Literature Review
Joanna McPake & Richard Johnstone with Jo Lo Bianco, Hilary McColl, Gema Rodriguez Prieto & Elizabeth Speake. Scottish Central Research Unit 2002.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2002/03/10759/File-1

Modern Languages in Special Schools and Mainstream Units in Scotland 2002 by Hilary McColl with Joanna McPake and Loy Picozzi. A research study sponsored by the Scottish Executive Education Department. Published by SEED 2003.
http://www.languageswithoutlimits.co.uk/resources/MFL_SENResearchReport.pdf


ARTICLES

Listening skills and the hearing impaired child
Association for Language Learning Journal June 1992
http://www.ittmfl.org.uk/modules/inclusion/3c/paper3c1.PDF

Modern Languages for All - or for the Few? Scottish Languages Review, Issue 5 2002
"...we somehow have to convince young people that they are capable of learning a foreign language - that it is no more difficult than any other subject..."
http://www.languageswithoutlimits.co.uk/SLR_AllorFewarticle.pdf

L is for Learning, for Languages and for Life Scottish Languages Review, Issue 12, November 2005
http://www.strath.ac.uk/scilt/slr/iss/2005/12/#d.en.245897

Back to Bac Scottish Languages Review, Issue 20, December 2009
Some thoughts on the new Languages Baccalaureate and its implications for the cohort as a whole.
http://www.strath.ac.uk/scilt/slr/iss/2009/20/

Modern foreign language learning and Inclusion: Who? Why? What? – and How? Support for Learning, Volume 20. Number 3. August 2005 © 2005 NASEN.
The article asks what foreign language learning is really for and what it has to offer pupils whose level of skill acquisition is likely to be modest.
http://www.languageswithoutlimits.co.uk/SfLArticle.pdf

Adapting MFL in the curriculum to meet the needs of deaf students (Why? and How?) Article written for BATOD Newsletter 2006
http://www.languageswithoutlimits.co.uk/BATODarticle.pdf

1 + 2 = free? Scottish Languages Review, Issue 24, Winter 2011-12.
Reflecting on the ‘1+2’ languages initiative recently announced by the Scottish Government and the opportunity it offers to strengthen provision for the wide range of 'home' languages used in Scotland.
http://www.strath.ac.uk/scilt/slr/iss/2012/24/

 

TALKS

Languages for all?
Keynote speech delivered at launch of LANGsen project UCML, Graz, October 2004.
http://www.languageswithoutlimits.co.uk/Graz.pdf

 

WEBSITES

Maximising Potential – an online resource for teachers to support inclusion in modern languages
Following extensive piloting in schools, this CPD programme is available online at
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/maximisingpotential/
Further information on the CPD pages on this site

Languages without Limits - the current website

MFL and inclusion - personal professional site (hilarymccoll.co.uk) that was the forerunner of this one.
 


CONTRIBUTIONS TO OFFICIAL REPORTS

Contribution about City of Edinburgh's Working Together project in EU report: Special Educational needs in Europe: The teaching and learning of languages: Insights and innovation (pp 106-109)
http://ec.europa.eu/education/policies/lang/doc/special_en.pdf

A Manual of Good Practice in Special Educational Needs (Project Development Officer) SOEID 1998.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2004/02/19009/33929

Advisory Committee Report into the Education of Children with Severe Low Incidence Disabilities (The Riddle Committee) Annex G: Information Gathering Exercise (Independent Consultant) Scottish Executive.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library2/doc04/ridm-18.htm

Self-Evaluation by Peripatetic Sensory Services (Consultant Editor) SEED 2001.
http://www.sac.education.ed.ac.uk/resources/general/selfeval0.html

Empowering Minority Ethnic Families of Disabled Children: A Guide and Resource Bank for Bilingual Key Workers (Author and Consultant) MELDI 2003.

Exploring Participation An enquiry into participation by young people with speech and language impairments in the process of formal decision making concerning their education. (Project officer) AFASIC Scotland 2002.
http://www.afasicscotland.org.uk/exploring%20participation.pdf

Including young people with speech and language impairments in secondary school: Guidelines and Tutor Notes Afasic Scotland 2007 (Editor).
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/resources/i/genericresource_tcm4534229.asp

 

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