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Reminding us of the title of the French author Jean Giono’s novel “Joy of Man’s Desiring” (1936) and Johann Sebastian Bach’s chorale “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”, the author Cornelia Golna has chosen an intriguing name for her first novel which is related to the story of culturally marked individuals, like the Greek girl Theodora Vlachos, the Russian Natalya Petrovna and the American professor John Townsend. Having as major focus the struggle for adaptation to a new life after the Young Turk Revolution, the book ...

Having as a starting point the multiple choice test passed at the beginning of the academic year, the results of the present statistics will underline the fact that the level of knowledge of English in the case of Computer Science from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University is a very good one, ranging from B1 to C2, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The test contains varied multiple choice questions, including vocabulary, reading comprehension and use of English, it has 80 questions to...

The purpose of the present article is to meditate on the teaching methods used in the two faculties where our teaching takes place (at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University and at George Enescu National University of Arts from Ia?i), based on ongoing evaluation, entrance and final tests, didactic activities during the last four academic years (2013-2017), insisting on the specific methods used for addressing students in a scientific and humanistic approach.

The notion of “academic leader” refers to all the roles a teacher should play in order to make teaching efficient, informing, dynamic, motivating, pleasant and stimulating for students who should be eager to discover more about the taught subject. The purpose of this methodological paper is to present nowadays academic teaching from the point of view of integrating modern technology and teaching strategies. Because teaching a foreign language involves the development of multiple skills, what are the techniques...