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GCSE Languages
Specifications designed to create confident language learners
Inspire your students' love of languages
Develop your students' language skills to their full potential with our new accredited GCSE French, GCSE German and GCSE Spanish specifications.
Want to help students have a positive attitude to language learning and recognise the value of speaking another language? So do we. That’s why our new specifications have been developed with engaging and relevant content – designed for learners of all abilities and backgrounds.
Planning to teach our new specifications?
Why choose AQA: accessible listening papers
Did you know our accessible listening paper features shorter extracts to avoid placing a burden on learners' memory?
Learn more about our language specifications and find out why AQA is the best option for your learners.
Join our Preparing to teach events
Our expert trainer will guide you through the requirements of the new specifications with opportunities to apply the mark schemes to example student responses and share more detail on the fantastic support and resources package we have available.
Support and resources
Looking for support? We’ve got everything you need, from new and updated resources to regular training and events to prepare you for first teaching.
Switching to AQA
Switching to AQA: from Eduqas
Compare our new specification (first teaching 2024) to Eduqas (first teaching 2016).
Switching to AQA: from Pearson Edexcel
Compare our new specification (first teaching 2024) to Pearson Edexcel (first teaching 2016).
Working together to create new specifications
07 November 2023
Author: Sadaf Najib
We know that the specification lives and breathes in classrooms where you...
"Our new specification offers your students the opportunity to develop their language skills to their full potential, equipping them with knowledge and confidence they can use both in and outside of the classroom."”
Judith Rowland-Jones | Head of Curriculum for Languages at AQA
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Tel: 01423 534 381
Email: mfl@aqa.org.uk
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