by Wendy Newman | Jul 14, 2015 | French Practice, French Updates, French Zone
Catherine Cheater, Primary French Project Consultant The Primary French Project aims to offer the ideal solution to the challenge currently facing many primary schools. It is designed to support all primary schools in the UK that wish to teach French, and is a...
by Wendy Newman | Jul 13, 2015 | French Updates, French Zone
Carol Sanders, Emeritus Professor of French, University of Surrey Much has been written about le néofrançais, le français de demain, or les nouveaux mots. Yet it can be hard for both teacher and researcher to keep abreast of these neologisms as they enter the French...
by Wendy Newman | Jul 13, 2015 | French Updates, French Zone
Kirsty Williams, Subject Leader for Modern Foreign Languages, Newnham Middle School Bringing together French teachers from across the globe; accessing a wealth of authentic resources Have you ever thought about your international colleagues; the ones who are doing...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | French Practice, French Updates, French Zone
Suzi Bewell (The University of York) In this article, PGCE course leader and languages teacher Suzi Bewell, focusses on how busy languages teachers can keep up to date and enhance their CPD by tapping into social media. We are currently undergoing a huge period of...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | French Practice, French Updates, French Zone
Jill Fernando, British Dyslexia Association How can we respond to the needs of learners who are dyslexic, multilingual or both? This article aims to highlight some of the difficulties faced by dyslexic and/or multilingual learners and then suggests some approaches...
by Wendy Newman | May 3, 2013 | French Culture, French Updates, French Zone
Jean-Benoît Alokpon (Président de l’APFA-OI) L’ASSOCIATION L’Association des Professeurs de Français pour l’Afrique et l’Océan Indien (APFA-OI) est l’une des huit Commissions que compte la Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Français (FIPF). Les sept autres...
by Wendy Newman | May 3, 2013 | French Culture, French Updates, French Zone
Mike Kelly (University of Southampton) La laïcité has recently re-emerged as a focus of French political life. All main parties endorse it across the political spectrum, as do the most important institutions of civil society, including most religious organisations. La...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | French Updates, French Zone
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...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | French Culture, French Practice, French Updates, French Zone
Anne Preston, Paul Seedhouse, Patrick Olivier, Daniel Jackson, Phil Heslop, Jürgen Wagner, Thomas Ploetz and Saandia Ali (University of Newcastle) This article reports on the French Digital Kitchen, a French language learning project developed by human-computer...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 31, 2012 | French Culture, French Updates, French Zone
Jean-Pierre Cuq (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Président de la FIPF) L’ORGANISME LE PLUS NOMBREUX DE LA FRANCOPHONIE Lors de sa création en juillet 1969, la fédération internationale des professeurs de français (FIPF) ne réunissait que 25 associations. Elles...
by Wendy Newman | May 1, 2012 | French Practice, French Updates, French Zone
Image: Huw Meredith Photography Peter Downes, ‘Discovering Languages’ Project Director, Association of School and College Leaders REVIEWING THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM As many readers will know, a root-and-branch review of the national curriculum is now under way. As...
by Wendy Newman | Sep 1, 2011 | French Practice, French Updates, French Zone
Photo: Huw Meredith Photography Kate Norman, Jack Hunt School, Peterborough With the widening of participation and the growth of confidence in the Key Stage 2 languages classroom which we have seen slowly – and in many cases painfully- over the last few years, Key...
