My friend and work colleague Barry Jones, who has died aged 76, made an immense contribution to the teaching of languages over 40 years, both as a teacher in secondary schools and as a trainer of language teachers at Homerton College, Cambridge University.
Barry was convinced that teachers need to use ingenuity and creativity to hook children into languages, and his various publications on language teaching focused on how to make lessons motivating and challenging for all pupils. The day before he died he was putting the final touches to his collected works, which will be published online as a free resource.
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