Steven Fawkes, ALL Membership Officer and Linda Parker, ALL Director, Association for Language Learning LOOKING BACK – MOVING FORWARD Brian Page was an inspirational figure in language teaching and learning. Always a passionate believer in the independence and...
Brian Page, first President of the Association for Language Learning LOOKING BACK – MOVING FORWARD Brian’s big tiger story[1] The view that a communicative approach to language learning meant that you didn’t have to bother about the grammar was always wrong. What is...
Lid King, National Director of Languages LOOKING BACK – MOVING FORWARD: Brian and the splendour of meanings that matter Most memories of Brian begin with a smile, for in all that he did and touched he retained a childlike enthusiasm, whether he applied this to...
LOOKING BACK – MOVING FORWARD: Some personal reminiscences of Brian Page Paddy Carpenter, formerly of the Central Bureau for Educational Visits & Exchanges, seconded to the European Commission The man from the North I never got very close to Brian Page,...
Steven Fawkes, ALL Membership Officer and Chair of Judges for the UK European Award for Languages LOOKING BACK – MOVING FORWARD: Brian Page: his ongoing influence on national and European initiatives in languages Encouraging teachers and others to meet up to...
Alan Moys, Mary Glasgow Trust, formerly Director of CILT LOOKING BACK – MOVING FORWARD Reflections For me it is a great privilege, as a personal friend, to preface this tribute to Brian, particularly as he was one of the great heroic figures in the continuing struggle...
Bernardette Holmes, University of Southampton – University of Cambridge LOOKING BACK – MOVING FORWARD: ‘What is French for?’ Remembering Brian Page, who never shied away from asking the unanswered questions. Sometimes it is all too easy to think that life in the...
Terry Lamb, University of Sheffield, President of the Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes LOOKING BACK – MOVING FORWARD: Taking hold of learning: developing learner autonomy 1. LETTING GO – TAKING HOLD The publication in 1992 of Brian...