Kathy Wicksteed, Association for Language Learning Council member and coordinator of FLAME Mysterious ways I can’t remember when I first became interested in CLIL,[ref]It is difficult to choose vocabulary to refer to the teaching of non-language subject content...
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...
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...
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...
Elena Bolton (Solihull) INTRODUCTION When I decided to try my hand at teaching Russian I thought I was well prepared for the task. After all, I had experience of teaching English in Russia. I had also spent several years working as a technical translator, a job which...
