Issue 16 of the Scottish Languages Review is now available on the Scottish CILT website. 

Contents:

The SUFLRP Saga – 30 years of teaching French in Scottish universities 1970 - 2000 (Robin Adamson)

‘It is difficult now to remember just how undervalued language teaching was in French departments in UK universities in the 1960s and 70s…’

PDF file on Scottish CILT website: The SUFLRP Saga

‘Can you understand all that?’ – Expanding horizons of a language learner (Nicola Malcolm)

‘When discussing our subject choices at the start of sixth year, my statement of “I’m doing French, German and Spanish” was always met with much astonishment…  That’s me alright, always one for making a big impression.’

PDF file on Scottish CILT website: Can You Understand All That?

Blogging in the Language Classroom (Thea Pallut)

‘At the Communicate.06 conference I attended a variety of workshops on new technology such as blogging and podcasting, which have revolutionised how I use computers in my classroom. So, how can we use computers to enhance teaching and learning which embrace these new forms of communication?’

PDF file on Scottish CILT website: Blogging in the Language Classroom

The Power of Language: Language Policy in Non-Anglophone Countries (Brian Templeton)

‘While here in Scotland, it is French that dominates the school curriculum with the other languages competing for a place, in other countries the clear priority is to develop competence in English leaving other languages (local and foreign) competing for time and space…’

PDF file on Scottish CILT website: The Power of Language

Education for Citizenship: Languages are the Key: A Rationale for Languages Teachers (Catriona Oates)

‘Language learning has to be set in a context that makes sense to children. We need to provide a meaningful context for their learning. In order to do this we need to link as closely as possible in two directions: outwards and inwards…’

PDF file on Scottish CILT website: Education for Citizenship: Languages are the Key

Call for SLR Contributions / Deadlines

The SLR is an online journal for language practitioners and language learners.  If you would like to raise a language-related matter of importance, report on an action research project or write a personal response to any of the articles, please contact the editor (hannah.doughty@stir.ac.uk) or consult the Submission of Contributions page.  Articles should reach us by 10 March 2008 (Issue 17) or 10 September 2008 (Issue 18).

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