Editor’s Note We have a rather short Reviews section this time. We are currently looking for a new Reviews Editor for Francophonie. If you’d be interested in sourcing new publications, finding reviewers (who get to keep the books they review) and editing this column...
Martine Pillette (Moulton, Northamptonshire) THE GRAMMAR AGENDA In the days of O level (GCE Ordinary level was introduced in Britain in 1951) communication was not at the heart of the MFL agenda. The emphasis was much more on linguistic competence than on performance....
Mandy Wight, Reviews Editor Our reviews section for this issue provides an eclectic mixture of publications of interest to teachers of German. Only Sicher, aimed at teaching students at CEFR B1+ level, can be described as a course book: its up-to-date topics,...
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...
Tatiana Signorelli Heise (University of Manchester) From its conception in the 1920s, Brazilian national identity has been sustained by the myth of racial democracy – the belief that racial interaction is less conflicted and more amicable in Brazil than in other...
