Introduction This paper addresses the issue of code-switching in the classroom, and the ways in which the alternate use of codes is related to learning processes, whether linguistic or not. We wish to analyse the roles and functions of the first language (L1) in the second language classroom (L2), at elementary level in two educational contexts: a French school in Spain (SP), and a bilingual pr...

The term mycosis fungoides was first used by the French dermatologist Baron Jean-Louis Alibert (1768-1837). He suggested that name because the skin lesions had mushroom-like appearance. Working ceaseless with both patients and collaborators, Alibert brought fame to the Parisian Saint-Louis Hospital as a worldwide training center of dermatology, founding thus the French School of Dermatology.

a USR 3278, CNRS-EPHE-UPVD, CRIOBE, Moorea, French Polynesia b UMR 7232, CNRS-UPMC, Observatoire Oc eanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France c Laboratorio de Psicobiologia, University of Sevilla, Campus Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Sevilla, Spain d School of Marine Studies, Institute of Marine Resources, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji e Institute for Pacific Coral Reefs, ...

The present study reports a speech production experiment on children who are enrolled in a Francophone K-12 school in Southern Alberta, Canada, a predominantly English-speaking region. Students from grades 1, 3, and 5 were asked to produce a series of French words beginning with one of the six stop consonants (voiced /b/, /d/, & /g/; voiceless /p/, /t/, & /k/). Results revealed no agerelated di...

In this issue of Preventive Medicine Bringolf-Isler et al. (Bringolf-Isler et al., 2008) report on factors associated with active commuting to school in more than 1000 children aged 6–14 years in a German-speaking, a French-speaking, and a bilingual area in Switzerland. This study design naturally allows for separating cultural from other determinants of selftransportation. Switzerland may be a...

A French research institute raises the bar for public outreach with an educational laboratory that engages 1,000 high school students per year in mini research projects.