by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | French Practice, French Zone
Jonathan Tyrens (The Grammar School at Leeds) Commenting in the educational supplement of The Independent on the climate of language learning in Britain in 2004 Susan Bassnett wrote that ‘languages are in crisis [….] and part of the problem may be the mainly...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | French reviews, French Zone
Dianne Place, Reviews editor SECONDARY Malvern Language Guides Val Levick, Glenise Radford, Alasdair McKeane Malvern Language Guides, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, up to 224pp. ISBN: 978 1 904463 44 3; 978 1 904463 35 1; 978 1 898219 14 9; 978 1 904463 28 3 For many...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | German Culture, German Zone
Peter J. Graves (University of Leicester) INSIGHT IN LA Since Christa Wolf was born in Germany, died in Germany and apart from some months spent in California, lived all her life in Germany, the description of her as ‘a German writer’ might seem a statement of the...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | German Culture, German Practice, German Zone
Jutta Austin (Adult Community Learning, Colchester) Most of my students learning German are adults and face the usual barriers to their efforts: having lost the biological language learning facility of early childhood and not being surrounded by the language, they...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | German Culture, German updates, German Zone
Colleen Marshman, News and Notes Editor I very much welcome items for inclusion in News and Notes. Please contact me via email: [email protected]. My sincere thanks go to Emily Conley (formerly of Ilford County High School, Barkingside) for her contribution...
