Alice Wunderland dreams of a new, unemployment-proof career as English teacher in Paris. After all, she reasons, how hard can it be for an educated American to pass a test in English? She enrolls at the Sorbonne, but her Arizona English fails to impress. Even Shakespeare's English falls short. Only one ...
Alice Wunderland dreams of a new, unemployment-proof career as English teacher in Paris.
After all, she reasons, how hard can it be for an educated American to pass a test in English?
She enrolls at the Sorbonne, but her Arizona English fails to impress. Even Shakespeare's English falls short. Only one English will do: Sorbonne English!
"Her tragi-comic story explains how France produces the worst English teachers in the world" - LE POINT
"Laurel Zuckerman has split the academic world with a book that relates her experience at the heart of the archaic French teacher-training system." --THE TIMES
"Wickedly funny" GOOD TEACHER MAGAZINE
"An argument for the power and importance of teacher education" - EDUCATION REVIEW
A dual national, and graduate of France's top business school, Zuckerman closely based Sorbonne Confidential (Fayard 2007) on her experiences at Paris IV in 2005.
Laurel Zuckerman is the author of Sorbonne Confidential and Les Rêves Barbares du Professeur Collie. An HEC graduate and long-time resident of France, Laurel's wickedly humorous account of her attempt to pass an elite exam for English teachers caused an uproar.
Her essays and interviews have appeared in Hommes et Commerces, Cahiers Pédagogiques, The Paris Times, Le Point, Le Monde, Le Monde de l'Education, The Guardian, The Times, as well as on France 24, TF1, RFI, and the BBC.
Laurel is also the editor of Paris Writers News.
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Alice Wunderland dreams of a new, unemployment-proof career as English teacher in Paris.After all, she reasons, how hard can it be for an educated American to pass a test in English?
She enrolls at the Sorbonne, but her Arizona English fails to impress. Even Shakespeare's English falls short. Only one ...