When Sorbonne Confidential was first published in French in 2007, French students ranked last for English skills in Europe. Yet children spent at least ten years studying English as a Foreign Language, and the competitive exams to become certified to teach in a French public school were the most difficult in the world. What could possibly be wrong?
Enter Alice Wunderland, an American who discovers the reality of a surreal teacher selection and training process that originated before the French Revolution - and seems to have barely been updated since.
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Sorbonne Confidential's inside look into France's trouble with English caused an uproar when it was first published in French in 2007. What, if anything, has changed since then? Certainly not enough: France continues to scrape the bottom of the rankings for English learning.
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THE PARIS TIMES – "Funny and ferocious, Sorbonne Confidential offers new insights into the challenges of integration and education in France."
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THE TIMES - "Laurel Zuckerman has split the academic world with a book that relates her experience at the heart of the archaic French teacher-training system."
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L'EXPRESS - "Absurd, ill-adapted, discriminatory. And dramatically funny…The French university system seen through the half naïve, half incredulous eyes of an American. The reader laughs a lot and concludes that reform is urgent"
LE POINT – "Her tragi-comic story explains how France produces the worst English teachers in the world"
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EDUCATION REVIEW – “ an argument for the power and importance of teacher education and of the need for systems that care more about creating good teachers than objectively assigning scores."
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LE MONDE DE l’EDUCATION - "The candidate imagines that being a native English speaker constitutes an advantage. She learns rather that it is a handicap. Her tribulations are the pretext for exploring with humour... why French students rank last in Europe for English."
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