by charlottelr | Aug 31, 2012 | Language Zones, Russian Culture, Russian Zone
Thomas Disney (University of Birmingham) Более двух десятилетий прошло с распада СССР. Для многих учеников и учителей pусского языка и русской культуры Советский Союз является историчечким явлением, но как и у всех исторических явлений, он имеет большое влияние на...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | Russian Reviews, Russian Zone
Andrew Jameson, Reviews Editor (Editor’s Note: All reviews are by Andrew Jameson unless otherwise indicated.) RUSSIAN TEXTBOOKS На старт, Внимание, Марш! Michael Ransome and Marta Tomaszewski Available from http://www.classroom-resources.com Classroom Resources, PO...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | French Culture, French Practice, French Updates, French Zone
Anne Preston, Paul Seedhouse, Patrick Olivier, Daniel Jackson, Phil Heslop, Jürgen Wagner, Thomas Ploetz and Saandia Ali (University of Newcastle) This article reports on the French Digital Kitchen, a French language learning project developed by human-computer...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | French Culture, French Practice, French Zone
Karen Turner and Kate Cruise, Maura Gordon, Becky Lipsey, Ellen Paige, Philippa Rae (Former full-time PGCE students, Institute of Education, University of London) Government policy underpinning the languages initiative in English primary schools (DfES 2005) has three...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | French Culture, French Zone
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...
