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Towards FLES in Britain, Part II
Author(s) -
Rowlands David
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1972.tb05024.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , scheme (mathematics) , foundation (evidence) , work (physics) , national curriculum , service (business) , mathematics education , foreign language , set (abstract data type) , sociology , pedagogy , library science , political science , engineering , psychology , computer science , law , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , mathematics , economy , economics , programming language
Foreword: An article in The Modern Language Journal (January 1972) described the Pilot Scheme for the teaching of French in primary schools in England and Wales and showed that this was conceived as a threefold operation: the Department of Education and Science assumed responsibility initially for organising and administering the Scheme and for the in‐service training of teachers, the National Foundation for Educational Research undertook the evaluation of the Pilot Scheme, and the Nuffield Foundation set up a curriculum development Project, the Nuffield Foreign Languages Teaching Materials Project, to produce new materials for teaching French to pupils from the age of 8 in primary schools. This article describes in detail the work of this Project, probably the largest of its kind.