Jonathan Tyrens (Editor of Francophonie) The Académie Française, protector of the French language since the 17th century, has elected the British poet Michael Edwards to the seat formerly occupied by Jean Dutourd. The Immortels of the Académie hold an influential...
The following titles are reviewed in issue 47 of Francophonie, spring 2013. Bien-Dire, Magazine bimestrial avec CD audio. Reviewed by Dianne Place Stephen Glover and Nathalie Kaddouri, Alevelfrench.com. Reviewed by Dianne Place The rest of this post can only be...
Dianne Place, Reviews Editor Editor’s Note Both reviews below were contributed by Dianne herself. This issue of Francophonie will be the last in which the Reviews section is edited by Dianne. She has acted as Reviews Editor since 1999, one of the longest periods of...
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...
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...
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...
