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Thursday, 4 December 2008
Thu, Dec 04 at 06:47 PM
Thursday, 4 December 2008
The decline in language learning in England's secondary schools has been halted but the situation is "turbulent", a report suggests
Thursday 4 December 2008
Minister's surgeries en Francais
Wed, Dec 03 at 04:36 PM
As a Home Office minister, Meg Hillier is keen to promote the value of English lessons for new arrivals to the UK.
But at a recent conference she told how she often finds it easier to speak to some of her constituents in their native tongue - French.
Wednesday 3 December 2008
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Wed, Dec 03 at 04:36 PM
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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Professor Dick Ellis on BBC Radio 4 Today programme
Tue, Dec 02 at 01:15 PM
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Professor Dick Ellis Professor of American Studies at the University of Birmingham and chair of the LLAS Area Studies Advisory Group spoke on Radio 4 this mroning conerning Kerouac's On the Road. The orginal scroll will visit Birmingham later this month and Professor will be curating the exhibition.
Today programme exert on Jack Kerouac
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•▼ 2008(176)•▼ December(4)
•'Turbulence' in school languages •LLAS December 2008 e-bulletin •Minister's surgeries en Francais •Professor Dick Ellis on BBC Radio 4 Today programm...
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•BBC NEWS | Education | Scottish Baccalaureates dis... •Academy Scotland travel fund for academic staff •BBC NEWS | Wales | 'Historic' use of Welsh in EU •Bothered Much? 'Meh' Is A Word - Yahoo! News UK •Newcastle expels overseas students with fake grade... •LLAS sets up undergraduate research journal •LLAS e-bulletin: November 2008: •BBC NEWS | UK | Councils ban use of Latin terms •BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | 'Oldest Hebrew sc...
• ► October(10)
•Skills drive risks mental health •Graduates and their early careers- HEFCE report •Future brighter for science and languages •Faroes Project: YouTube meets language teaching! •British dialects "on brink of extinction" - Yahoo!... •Debut: the undergraduate journal of languages, lin... •LLAS October e-bulletin •Spanish in the USA •BBC NEWS | Wales | Singer's London Welsh School sh...
• ► September(25)
•Enquiry-based learning in languages •Arsène Wenger talks about learning languages. •Newsletter: EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ... •BBC NEWS | Wales | Supermarket tills to speak Wels... •BBC NEWS | Education | UK adults 'forget school Fr... •Happy European Day of Languages 2008! •Multilingualism: an asset for Europe and a shared ... •BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | Foyle and West | Min... •Learn languages or lose out on a job | Business | ... •BBC NEWS | Education | Tories would scrap some Dip... •Launch day for new Gaelic channel •Commission Communication on Multilingualism: tappi... •Interview: John Crace meets language guru David Cr... •BBC NEWS | Scotland | Highlands and Islands | Zida... •September 2008 e-bulletin •Bad French prolongs Russia-Georgia conflict - Tele... •...
