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Using the metaphor of rising or falling water, Leah Montano shows that when schools remain trapped in a monolingual mindset, students' abilities are hidden not by a lack of capability, but by systems that fail to make their knowledge accessible and visible.

Eowyn Crisfield, PhD, Founder and Academic Director of Oxford Collaborative for Multilingualism in Education takes a closer look at the three priorities for strengthening language education in England proposed by the British Council and argues that only one them goes far enough.

When we talk about literacy in multilingual schools, it is easy to focus on the language of instruction. We often ask how students can develop stronger reading and writing skills in English, or another school language, without always considering the literacy knowledge they already bring with them. I believe we need to start with a different question: how can literacy in one language support literacy development in another?

Eowyn Crisfield, PhD, Founder and Academic Director of Oxford Collaborative for Multilingualism in Education uses the latest HEPI league table as a starting point to challenge long-held assumptions about Modern Foreign Languages and make the case for a broader, more inclusive vision of Languages Education.