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...
Communicative language teaching or the grammar-translation method? Have we decided?
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...
La fédération internationale des professeurs de français à la croisée des chemins
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...
List of Reviews – Issue 46 of Francophonie, autumn 2012
The following titles are reviewed in this issue: Val Levick, Glenise Radford, Alasdair McKeane, Malvern Language Guides. Reviewed by Jonathan Tyrens Voltaire: A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary. Translated by John Fletcher with an Introduction and Notes by Nicholas...