Actualités

08/04/2013 Espagne

Aumenta la demanda de campamentos en inglés y alemán para jóvenes y niños en 2013

Un estudio de Enfocamp muestra que entre el 78 por ciento de los alumnos que acuden a campamentos con idiomas mejoraban sus notas en los cursos sucesivos en más de 2,53 puntos

08/04/2013 Italie

Dislessia e apprendimento delle lingue straniere

Laboratori linguistici, percorsi di studi mirati, ricerche scientifiche in collaborazione con altre istituzioni italiane: l’impegno dell’Università di Pisa sul fronte della dislessia e dell’apprendimento delle lingue straniere si sta traducendo in iniziative concrete, volte a far sì che questo disturbo dell’apprendimento – a volte non riconosciuto - non diventi un problema insormontabile per lo studente che intende raggiungere gli obiettivi dello studio universitario.

08/04/2013 Suisse

Rätoromanisch-Studium bleibt der Uni Freiburg erhalten

Der Lehrstuhl für Rätoromanisch an der Universität Freiburg ist gesichert. In Chur sind zwei Verträge über die Professur für die vierte Landessprache unterzeichnet worden.

08/04/2013 Russie

Totales Diktat: Russischkundige übern richtiges Schreiben

„Das Übel zum Wohl oder das Wohl zum Übel?“ Mit dieser Frage begann in diesem Jahr das Totale Diktat – eine Bildungsaktion, die auf die Entwicklung der Kultur des fehlerfreien Schreibens abzielt. Der Text des Diktats über die Bedeutung des Internets für die heutige Welt wurde von der Schriftstellerin Dina Rubina verfasst.

08/04/2013 Canada

Le français, la langue des ambitieux (au Canada)

Ce serait culturel : le Français est malheureux, déprimant même. Et cela, qu’il vive dans son pays où à l’étranger ; c’est le New-Yorker qui le dit ! Sur le plan économique, nous serions même la « bombe à retardement de l’Europe », comme en faisait sa Une The Economist, en novembre dernier.

08/04/2013 Etats Unis

Immigration reform or not, Americans should want Congress to make English the official language

In a recent post titled Do Americans really think Congress should establish English as the national language?  Red Alert posed several questions about the value of Congress establishing English as the United States’ official language.

08/04/2013 Inde

Speak your language

University of Edinburgh has launched an India Institute, which aims to build a programme of training in major Indian languages. Tirna Ray talks to Roger Jeffery, director of the institute, to find out what it offers to Indian students and scholars 

08/04/2013 Union européenne

Civil Society Platform on Multilingualism - meeting outcomes

On the 8^th of March, the Civil Society Platform on Multilingualism (CSPM) had a meeting in Brussels; it gathered its 23 members and four representatives of the European Commission.

08/04/2013 Etats Unis

Atlanta Regional Commission is working to reverse the melting pot

"Language is perhaps the strongest, perhaps most enduring link which unites men." — Alexis de Tocqueville

08/04/2013 Espagne

Burgos sumará 8 nuevas secciones bilingües para el próximo curso

Cada inicio de curso escolar se marcan los objetivos para mejorar la expresión oral y escrita de la lengua castellana en todas las áreas del conocimiento con medidas como lectura expresiva, dictados semanales, pruebas orales periódicas o el perfeccionamiento de la gramática.

08/04/2013 Japon

Court interpreting could be better

The conviction in March of a young man from the United States for killing an Irish exchange student raised the issue of how well Japanese courts provide interpretation for non-Japanese put on trial.

06/04/2013 Etats Unis

Foreign language fluency has its perks

Founder says multilingual society has ‘opened so many doors.’

05/04/2013 Royaume-Uni

One man's fight to protect Europe's dying languages

Corsican-speaking MEP to present report on dwindling dialects to European Parliament

05/04/2013 France

Opposition to opening universities to ‘other languages’

Champions of the French language are opposing a measure that will open the way for universities to teach courses in languages other than French – notably English. The measure is included in the Higher Education and Research law, known as ESR, that is due to come into force later this year.

05/04/2013 Espagne

El diccionario definitivo de inglés, con El Periódico

La obra, que consta de dos volúmenes, se puede adquirir desde mañana