Ofqual invites your views on a proposed adaptation to the assessment of GCSE modern foreign languages (MFL) qualifications for students in England taking exams from summer 2023.
We propose carrying forward to future assessments the changes we made to last year’s qualifications in respect of the use of vocabulary. In summer 2022, these changes allowed the exam boards greater flexibility by:
Our proposals are in response to a separate consultation launched by the Department for Education (DfE). DfE is consulting on a minor amendment to their published subject content to make this change on an ongoing basis for all GCSE modern foreign languages.
This consultation is likely to be of interest to:
The consultation will be open for 3 weeks starting on 29 September 2022 and ending on 20 October 2022 at 11:45pm. We have set the length of this consultation so that decisions can be announced as early as possible this academic year, giving students, teachers and exam boards time to plan for exams taking place next summer.
Please respond to this consultation by completing the online response form.
This information will now be analysed and the findings will be published on our website.
To get alerted to updates to this and other Ofqual consultations, you can sign up for alerts on our consultation page on GOV.UK.
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