The Demise of Yet Another French Program (Middle Country, Centereach, NY)
Middle Country School District has abruptly decided to eliminate its French Program. We found out about these cuts by reading Sunday’s Newsday (2/6/11).http://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/state-number-of-failin... We need your help to let them know how valuable French is in the world and to ask them to reconsider cutting the program. The French program at Middle Country has a consistent record of !00% passing on the Regents. For a school that is on the list of failing schools,…
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"A message from Hexagramm Books to all members of French As A Foreign Language / F.L.E on New York in French!"
my question-- Do we, as members of this group, want to receive advertising? I for one don't. A personal recommendation of a good textbook (or whatever) from someone using it in their teaching who is a member of the group is fine, but sales pitches? I call that junk mail. Is there anything we can do to stop it?
It doesn't sound more politically correct to me! What you think?
Julie, I'm also enjoying your blogs.
I thought I only had trouble with sigles in French! But not only am I hopeless with sigles in French, I was also clueless about TOEFL and TESOL. Please excuse the misinformation. I should have checked.
A small clarification on TOEFL. It refers to an English test required by most universities for non-native English speakers and stands for Test of English as a Foreign Language. TESOL is Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.
Ce n'est pas le mot 'etranger' hors contexte, mais 'langue etrangere' comme expression, as if it were one word. I am OK for it, as it is not in the absolute sense, but from the point of view of the 'student' of the 'new or unknown [to him/her] language'.
Enfin, ESL is another choice (English - or French as a second language) but that does not give the right meaning either as sometimes it is a third or even a fourth language that is in question.
Cheers,
nora
Au passage, j'aime beaucoup vos "amuse-bouche"! Merci à vous!