by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | Russian Practice, Russian updates, Russian Zone
Nadia Griffin (Russian Teachers’ Group UK), Katya Feoktistova (Oxford High School), Natalia Tronenko (Language Vision, London) Судейская коллегия, состоявшая из первоклассных специалистов в области русского слова, провела долгие часы, скрупулёзно оценивая работы...
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 Practice, French Zone
Wendy Adeniji, Kings Science Academy (Bradford) ‘When I was learning to be a language teacher […] I became aware that I was learning to […] teach what I call “phonic blobs”. Groups of phonemes that meant nothing to anyone who had never been to France, met a French...
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...
