Mandy Wight, Reviews Editor Our reviews for this edition include a range of books for learners of German at all levels. In the category of coursebooks we are reviewing a new Post Beginners’ text book from Hueber, ‘Menschen’, as well as a new edition of the coursebook...
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...
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...
Elena Bolton (Solihull) INTRODUCTION When I decided to try my hand at teaching Russian I thought I was well prepared for the task. After all, I had experience of teaching English in Russia. I had also spent several years working as a technical translator, a job which...
Joel Roberts (University of Brighton) INTRODUCTION Peter the Great’s establishment of Saint Petersburg as a ‘window on the West’ opened Russia to a host of European influences. As a city built on Finnish marshland, a celebration of European culture and an ostensible...
