Par Antoine Desprez. Un guide académique a été rédigé pour l’occasion par la DGESCO (l’inspection générale de l’éducation nationale), la DNE, le CIEP, le CNED, l’Agence Erasmus, le Café bilingue, l’association des professeurs de langues vivantes et l’Observatoire européen du plurilinguisme. Pour cette édition 2016-2017, le thème choisi est « Osons les langues ! ». Voir l'article...
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Consider joining (by attending and/or presenting) at the International conference on MOOCs, Informal Language Learning, and Mobility. It offers FREE registration for all, plus a potential 200 EUR to cover travel cost if you are coming from outside of the UK. Read more...
By Courtney Kueppers. Shortly after George Mason University announced last week that it would rename its law school as the Antonin Scalia School of Law in honor of the late Supreme Court justice, people on social media began pointing out the new school’s unfortunate acronym. More...
By Ilan Stavans. Efforts to translate a text within the same language, from, say, the French of Molière to the present-day language of immigrants in Paris, are common today. Not long ago, I got a copy of Andrés Trapiello’s faithful modernization of the entire Don Quixote, all 126 chapters. His argument is that today’s readers, especially young ones, no longer read Cervantes’s novel. Since its antiquated language might be one of the causes, why not render it it in 21st-century Iberian Spanish. More...
By William Germano. What’s the opposite of an intro? If outro comes to mind, you may be riding a trend. The word shows up in student papers. People say it. People hearing it don’t ask what you mean.
The term outro is now often used to describe the ends of things — music mainly, but other forms, too. “Sympathy for the Devil” has an outro, and we know this because there is at least one YouTube tutorial to help you master it. More...
By William Germano. When did comprehension become something you could rub your fingers over? When, in other words, did we begin to talk about textured understanding? When I think of texture I think of oatmeal, or good beach sand, or chenille bedspreads. More...
By Allan Metcalf. Fortunately, there’s another free estimator of text readability that takes account of many additional factors. It’s known as TextEvaluator, recently developed by the Educational Testing Service. And just like Readability Score, you can paste in a passage for a free evaluation. More...
By Allan Metcalf. It’s that time of year when respectable denizens of colleges and universities don caps and gowns and assemble amid the groves of academe, some to confer academic degrees and some to be conferred upon. Their faux medieval vestments are vestiges of that time in western Europe when Latin was the lingua franca for all serious scholarship. More...
By Allan Metcalf. No, the age of miracles hasn’t passed. I’m about to give you a free tool that will make you an instant expert on readability. More...
By Lucy Ferriss. A long, earnest study has been knocking around at Lingua Franca regarding so-called grammos and typos in social media. More...
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