Attualità – spring 2014
ITALIAN IMMERSION Wendy Newman, ALL In summer 2013, I was given the opportunity to study Italian in Italy, as part of the European Union’s Lifelong Learning Programme. This programme offered In-Service Training Funding for language teachers to develop, revive and...
La Chasse a l’Ours: A Journey Exploring Teacher Trainees’ Attitudes to Primary Foreign Language Teaching
Marnie Seymour and Sharon Witt (University of Winchester) L’HISTOIRE COMMENCE… Primary Foreign Languages (PFLs) obtaining a new statutory status within the National Curriculum for Key Stage 2 poses a challenge not only for existing primary practitioners but also for...
Teaching Christian Petzold’s film ‘Barbara’
Mandy Wight (formerly University of Sheffield) I first saw the film ‘Barbara’ shortly after it was released in the summer of 2012 and straightaway thought it was a film which students would enjoy: The plot includes a love story and the conflict between duty and...
Propuesta didáctica para ¡Ay, Carmela! y La Hora de los Valientes
Carlos Sanz Mingo (Cardiff University) La Guerra Civil española ha sido fuente inagotable de material para el cine español, que hizo uso de la misma desde poco después de terminar el conflicto (por ejemplo, Raza, de 1942). Las largas vacaciones del 36 (1976) marca un...