Review: A History of French Literature: From Chanson de geste to Cinema

Birkett, Jennifer

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“…While some may see this as a production line with no attendant market, one insider has a different perspective. In reviewing yet another history of French literature, and in calling for a study of this proliferating genre, a distinguished professor asserts that 'the gap continues to widen between the research and teaching needs of scholars, and the learning needs of students' (Birkett, 2003). Admittedly, the sentence finishes '… learning needs of students trained on ever-narrower examination syllabuses', but it would be interesting to hear a definition and defence of the 'teaching needs of scholars' when these are out of line with students' needs.…”

Section: The Paradoxical Impact Of the Raementioning

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Modern Languages in British Universities

Coleman

2004

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

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This paper profiles Modern Language studies in United Kingdom universities in a sometimes polemicalway, drawing on the author's experiences, insights and reflections as well as on published sources. It portrays the unique features of Modern Languages as a university discipline, and how curricula and their delivery have evolved. As national and international higher education contexts change more fundamentally and more rapidly than ever before, it seeks to draw on recent and current data to describe the impact of student choice and to identify trends, particularly with regard to the place of literature. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTEJim Coleman is Professor of Language Learning and Teaching at the Open University, having previously taught French at Glasgow and Portsmouth. An author of French language courses and editions of French Renaissance literature, his recent research focuses on language learning in the university sector. More than 80 publications, and over 100 plenaries, conference papers and invited lectures delivered in the UK and across Europe deal among other topics with residence abroad, language testing, intercultural competence, quality enhancement and applications of new technologies to language teaching. He is on the Editorial Board of several international journals, and has played a role in many national associations and institutions, including the Institute of Linguists, Association for French Language Studies and University Council of Modern Languages. He regularly works as an external advisor to other universities, and has taken part in national quality assessments of both teaching and research.

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Section: The Paradoxical Impact Of the Raementioning

confidence: 99%

Modern Languages in British Universities

Coleman

2004

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

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Review: A History of French Literature: From Chanson de geste to Cinema

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