| Summary: | <p>The research aim of the project is to use task design to foster a greater sense of agency in Key Stage Three Latin students by introducing more open-ended tasks into the classroom, both for Latin language and Roman civilisation. </p> <p>The methodology is based on a cyclical action research model comprising of two stages, the evaluation of each cycle informing the next stage. Group interviews or student focus groups were used to explore student's’ responses to more open-ended tasks, and this data was evaluated using a basic form of content analysis. </p> <p>The results show the importance of building students' learning dispositions alongside their subject knowledge to help them manage quadrant three activities effectively. They have helped me to refine how the strands of teaching Latin (grammar, translation and the Ancient Roman World) interlink and to be clear on the link between the learning objective, the task and assessment, whatever the task style. Another result of the research is that I have increased trust in my students, having seen how positively the vast majority of them responded to more open tasks.</p>
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