In today's rapidly evolving global economy, it is essential to equip young learners with the necessary skills and knowledge to thrive in the workforce and contribute to economic development. Education is a vital driver of human capital and development in countries, and the effectiveness of any educational system depends heavily on its curriculum.…

One of the fundamental objectives of education is to teach lifelong learning skills that will help people navigate through their careers and future relationships towards both personal and professional fulfilment. Educators would then not only teach the core subjects and hard skills, but they would also need to focus on teaching soft skills, which…

The 23rd EUROCALL conference was held in Cyprus from the 24th to the 27th of August 2016. The theme of the conference this year was "CALL Communities and Culture." It offered a unique opportunity to hear from real-world CALL practitioners on how they practice CALL in their communities, and how the CALL culture has developed in local and…

Reviews the English language teaching situation at the university level in France since the 1968 reforms. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Discusses the problems and questions arising from the French experience of making several foreign languages available in the national curriculum. (Text is in French.) (TL)

Discusses the objectives of a proposed national program for the education of migrant workers in France. The first stage, i.e., the teaching of standard French, is described in detail. (Text is in French.) (TL)

France's Minister of Education and Culture favors a governmental language policy to provide the French with genuine communicative competence in other languages. His plan relies on four "D's": diversification, development, decentralization, and dynamic policy. A chart summarizes the 20 essential measures to be undertaken. (CNP)

Describes a study comparing two methods of teaching English as a foreign language in France: a traditional and an audiovisual method. The research methodology is described in detail. The central question is not which method is better, but who benefits most from the method used. (AMH)

Papers in French, English, and Arabic address issues in Arabic language instruction for European adults, including: classroom techniques, literary Arabic and diglossia, the specificity of instruction, Arabic studies in Denmark, phonetic difficulties of instruction, Franco-Maghrebin relations and language instruction, contrastive and comparative…

This study attempts to make a broad appraisal of the needs experienced by students of foreign languages in the schools. The object of the study is to draw up a methodology and offer a set of didactic tools which will help to progress toward the overall educational objectives of the Modern Languages Project of the Council of Europe. The starting…

Discusses the use of ethnological techniques to immerse teachers of French as a second language in the culture of a village in France as a means of making their observations of the culture more meaningful. The objectives, activities, and further use of the teachers' observations and experiences are also discussed. (MSE)

The population of immigrant workers in France is described; their social and educational statuses are given as well as statistics by nationality. This definition is then used to help establish a program for educating this segment of the population in the French language. (Text is in French.) (TL)

Focuses on a videoconferencing project that was conducted between an American and a French university. Describes the way that the exchange was set up and run, the types of equipment and materials that were used, the students' activities and assignments, the methods used for evaluating students' work, and the relationship of the project to the…

An elementary school English second language program in Caen (France) is described and evaluated. The program evolved from national policy initiatives to reintroduce modern foreign languages in the primary schools. The eventual National Experiment involved a selected number of schools in which a foreign language was to be taught. Data for this…