by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | French Practice, French Zone
Wendy Adeniji, Kings Science Academy (Bradford) ‘When I was learning to be a language teacher […] I became aware that I was learning to […] teach what I call “phonic blobs”. Groups of phonemes that meant nothing to anyone who had never been to France, met a French...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | French Culture, French Practice, French Zone
Karen Turner and Kate Cruise, Maura Gordon, Becky Lipsey, Ellen Paige, Philippa Rae (Former full-time PGCE students, Institute of Education, University of London) Government policy underpinning the languages initiative in English primary schools (DfES 2005) has three...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | French Culture, French Zone
Michael Mould, Former Head of ‘Langues et Traductions’ (France-Télécom) I should like to begin this article by drawing some tighter lines around the term ‘speaks French fluently’. At the very least this refers to someone who masters the basic grammatical mechanics of...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | French Practice, French Zone
Jonathan Tyrens (The Grammar School at Leeds) Commenting in the educational supplement of The Independent on the climate of language learning in Britain in 2004 Susan Bassnett wrote that ‘languages are in crisis [….] and part of the problem may be the mainly...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | French Culture, French Updates, French Zone
Jean-Pierre Cuq (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Président de la FIPF) L’ORGANISME LE PLUS NOMBREUX DE LA FRANCOPHONIE Lors de sa création en juillet 1969, la fédération internationale des professeurs de français (FIPF) ne réunissait que 25 associations. Elles...
