by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | German Practice, German updates, German Zone, Portuguese news
Billy Brick (Coventry University, Coventry) INTRODUCTION Most UK HE institutions provide the opportunity for students to study a foreign language or languages alongside their main degree subject. Institution-wide Language Provision (IWLP) sometimes referred to as...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | German Reviews, German Zone
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...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | French Practice, French Updates, French Zone
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...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | French reviews, French Zone
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...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Russian Practice, Russian updates, Russian Zone
Mark Payne (University of Sheffield) With the new School Direct initiative in teacher training launched this year, the intention in future is that more student teachers will be trained in schools than in universities (Department for Education, 2013). In brief, the...
