Teaching languages to dyslexic, multilingual learners
Jill Fernando, British Dyslexia Association How can we respond to the needs of learners who are dyslexic, multilingual or both? This article aims to highlight some of the difficulties faced by dyslexic and/or multilingual learners and then suggests some approaches...
Thornier bits of French grammar: The articles
Anthony Lodge, Emeritus Professor of French (St. Andrews University) In staff common-room discussions about those parts of French grammar which cause the most difficulty for English-speaking learners, attention swiftly focusses on past participal agreements and on the...
Immersion language learning: a game changer?
Kathy Wicksteed, Association for Language Learning Council member and coordinator of FLAME Mysterious ways I can’t remember when I first became interested in CLIL,[ref]It is difficult to choose vocabulary to refer to the teaching of non-language subject content...List of Reviews – Issue 48 of Francophonie, autumn 2013
The following titles are reviewed in issue 48 of Francophonie, autumn 2013. Isabelle Vanderschelden, Studying French Cinema. Horace Greasley, Do the birds still sing in hell? Mike Thacker and Casimir D’Angelo, Essential French Grammar. The rest of this post can only...