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are a very good exercise in the legal English class.<br />

Contact: yvycar@yahoo.com<br />

Teacher of French working for a private high school in Galaţi,<br />

Romania, FLORENTINA IBĂNESCU has been studying the French<br />

colloquial register for some time <strong>and</strong> she approaches it now from a didactic<br />

perspective: Une approche didactique sur le registre familier. Underlining the<br />

fact that a French teacher’s task is very difficult because of the French<br />

lexicon, orthography <strong>and</strong> grammar, the author proposes a useful solution:<br />

teaching <strong>and</strong> learning the foreign language of the generation having the<br />

same age as the learners, she considers that such a double aim could be<br />

reached fsa long as learners are induced into learning the colloquial register<br />

<strong>and</strong> are involved in the acquisition of the most important linguistic<br />

problems.<br />

Contact: gruia_flori@yahoo.co.uk<br />

IULIAN MARDAR, a second year master student in the English<br />

programme on Translation <strong>and</strong> Interpreting, “Dunărea de Jos” University<br />

of Galaţi, Romania, with considerable ten-year teaching experience both in<br />

Romania <strong>and</strong> in Taiwan, embarks upon Exploring the Matrix of the English<br />

Tenses in Classroom. The paper is designed to reveal the ways in which the<br />

symmetry characterizing English tenses may be used in teaching students<br />

whose mother tongue is not English. The main idea of the paper is that the<br />

English tense system is very logic, very precise <strong>and</strong> transparent, easily<br />

comparable to a glass cube: irrespective of the angle from which one looks<br />

at such a cube, they will see all its sides <strong>and</strong> corners provided that the<br />

looker is familiar with at least one side of the cube. The various tables <strong>and</strong><br />

schemata explaining the matrix of the English tenses form the background<br />

for observations regarding the use of this extremely useful instrument in<br />

teaching English tenses to beginner <strong>and</strong> adult learners, respectively.<br />

Contact: iulian19722002@yahoo.com<br />

ANDREEA MIHAELA NEDELCUŢ, from the University of Craiova,<br />

Romania, in her paper English in School Versus English in Mass-Media.<br />

analyzes both the English that is taught in schools <strong>and</strong> the English that is<br />

promoted in mass media: television, magazines, newspapers <strong>and</strong> radio.<br />

Unlike the English that students learn in schools, the English used in mass<br />

media accepts strange abbreviations <strong>and</strong> grammatical mistakes in<br />

constructing a phrase with the single purpose of persuading, provoking or<br />

entertaining. The author considers that from the gulf between the ‘two<br />

languages’ the question arises: ‘What should teachers do – include mass<br />

media material during their English class or ignore it?’<br />

Contact: <strong>and</strong>reea_nedelcut@yahoo.com<br />

ANCA-MARIANA PEGULESCU, a member of the Romanian<br />

Ministry of Education Staff, is the author of the paper From Reflection-Based<br />

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