Mandy Wight, Reviews Editor Our reviews section for this issue provides an eclectic mixture of publications of interest to teachers of German. Only Sicher, aimed at teaching students at CEFR B1+ level, can be described as a course book: its up-to-date topics,...
Jeremy Morris (University of Birmingham) This article reports on a small-scale learning enhancement project conducted with first-year Russian Studies students at Birmingham University over one semester in 2011. The project provided a weekly face-to-face seminar...
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...
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...
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...
