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[Article] This text argues that in instructed English language teaching, a key distinction needs to be made between work focusing on pronunciation and work focusing on listening. This re-focusing makes it easier to prepare learners to successfully interact, as both speakers and listeners, beyond the classroom context. The text describes the process of how the author’s approach to teaching pronunciation changed, as she became more aware of this distinction.

[Article] In the last few years, “Dubna” University has been actively developing its Virtual Learning Environment due to the fact that online teaching and assessment is an increasingly desirable method for enhancing student learning in Higher Education. Moreover, the sanitary situation of 2020-2021 resulted in a number of new approaches and computer-assisted teaching techniques to master the pronunciation of a foreign language. The article reports on the “Connected Speech Processes” online course, its design and development, as well as its integration and the achieved learning outcomes.

[Article] Nous résumerons ici des travaux fascinants en sciences cognitives, visant à mieux cerner la nature et le fonctionnement des connaissances phonologiques (réceptives et productives, phonémiques et prosodiques) dans le cerveau humain. Nous résumerons également des démarches (expérimentales ou didactiques) qui ont facilité l’émergence de nouvelles catégories phonémiques – même dans le cerveau d’apprenants plus âgés ou ayant étudié une langue étrangère pendant de nombreuses années. Ces perspectives cognitives sur les apprentissages phonologiques nous permettront de questionner quelques notions répandues de la didactique communicativo-actionnelle des langues (Task-Based Language Teaching). Elles nous aideront aussi à décomplexer les activités phonologiques et métaphonologiques en classe de langue, à tous les niveaux.

The read-aloud book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, “retold” by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury designed for very young children may be unlikely teaching material for EFL students in French middle and senior schools. But if studied in conjunction with the video released by The Guardian in 2014 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the book, and if additional literary and artistic references are brought into the lesson plan, the teaching project may prove rewarding on many levels.

Fifty years of institutional teaching has brought me this lesson: try to learn to learn how to teach this group, for me the two ends of the spectrum: Columbia University in the City of New York and six elementary schools on the border between West Bengal and Jharkhand. Everything I say will be marked by this. I take my motto from Kafka: “Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: Impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.”

This paper will argue that Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s political discourse was profoundly influenced by his liberal Protestant worldview. The paper begins with some background on Roosevelt’s Christian upbringing. It moves on to show how FDR consistently used Protestant precepts and Biblical allusions as a rhetorical tool to gain electoral support. However, the author argues that Roosevelt’s simple yet profound Christian faith went far beyond this purely rhetorical usage and that liberal Protestant teachings in fact structured his political philosophy.