Nurturing intercultural understanding in young learners of French and English
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...
Des hussards noirs et des ballets bleus
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...