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...
Jonathan Tyrens (The Grammar School at Leeds) Des changements à tire-larigot sur l’horizon. Est-ce, encore une fois, un cas de ‘plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’? Qui sait encore? Ce qui est certain, c’est que les langues étrangères prendront une place...
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...
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...
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...
