This week is my last trip of the year and I’m off to Lisboa / Lisbon, Portugal, with David. The pictures I’ve seen online of the Portuguese capital look incredibly beautiful, and the guest house I booked, Residencial Vila Nova, looks really nice and in a great location. Plus it’s still 20°C and sunny there [...]
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Pour les francophones qui veulent apprendre l’américain / For French speakers who want to learn American English
Après quatre longues années en tant qu’enseignante d’anglais, j’ai envie d’aider les francophones à apprendre la langue des States, ou l’américain comme disent les français. Même si la plupart des manuels scolaires sont écrits en anglais britannique et la plupart des profs parlent anglais britannique, mes élèves et mes étudiants voulaient toujours mieux comprendre l’américain [...]
Full Story »The French Language Outside of France
The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) just published La Langue française dans le monde 2010, its most recent report on the state of the French language in the world today. It will be in bookstores October 21 (éd. Nathan, 26€), just a day before the XIIIème Sommet de la Francophonie takes place this weekend, [...]
Full Story »Expat Exhaustion: All Grèved Out and All Franced Out
Perhaps you heard that there was a strike this past Tuesday in France against the pension reforms. Perhaps you heard it was the 5th one this year, and another one is already scheduled for next Tuesday. Perhaps you heard that the government has already passed the reforms anyway. Even though most people protesting only took [...]
Full Story »English Language Teaching Assistantship in France for 2011-2012 School Year
If you would like to teach English in the public school system in France or the DOM-TOMs as an assistant for the 2011-2012 school year (October 1, 2011 to either April 30, 2012 or June 30, 2012) , use the links below to find out the specific requirements and application process for your country. In [...]
Full Story »Losing my Native Pronunciation: The Case of ArchipeLAgo or ArchiPELago
I’ve been contributing to RhinoSpike lately by recording myself reading texts in English for other language learners to use in their independent studies. This weekend, however, I could not remember how to correctly pronounce a few words in my native language. I still use English often in my day to day life, but it’s mostly [...]
Full Story »Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning Online and Teaching (MERLOT)
The MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning Online and Teaching) website is a great collection of online materials for students and teachers across all disciplines, ranging from agriculture to world languages. If you’re looking for resources to use in your classroom or for self-study, I recommend starting with MERLOT before doing a general internet search [...]
Full Story »Pragmatics: Knowing what to say in certain situations
The Foreign Language Teaching Methods modules from the University of Texas-Austin includes a section on pragmatics – how context and situation affect meaning – which is extremely important for language students to learn, yet remains difficult to master. Learning what to say and when to say it, the appropriate use of language, varies significantly among [...]
Full Story »Reprise and Detachment in Dislocated Sentences of Spoken French
Grammar books teach us that pronouns replace nouns, but a very common feature of spoken French is reprise, where a noun and the pronoun that refers to it exist in the same sentence. In addition, the noun or noun phrase is moved to the beginning or end of the sentence (detachment) and the resulting sentence [...]
Full Story »Collection of Articles & Sites Related to Languages, Learning, Education, etc. (from Twitter)
It’s been six months since I posted the last collection of links to language-related articles and sites from @ielanguages on Twitter. Here’s what I’ve been tweeting about recently: Tomorrow is the European Day of Languages (September 26) Studies on Language Learning & Acquisition Infant Brains are Hardwired for Language Preschool years can be ‘perfect storm’ for [...]
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