BOOK REVIEW: “RLNM – PROCESUL DE EVALUARE A RLNM LA CICLUL LICEAL (P6) (ROMANIAN AS SECOND LANGUAGE - THE EVALUATION PROCESS OF RSL DURING THE HIGH SCHOOL)”; COORD.: ELENA PLATON AND DINA VÂLCU; EDITURA CASA CĂRŢII DE ŞTIINŢĂ, CLUJ-NAPOCA, 2011. 434P.

Abstract

After writing five chapters from the novel Accidentul (The Accident), Mihail Sebastian lost his manuscript or it was stolen from him. This is the most frequently invoked metaphor-episode from the Romanian culture when it comes to the fragility of writing or rather of the scriptural support, maybe also as a result of the depressing confessions made by the journalist Sebastian about the episode. Mutatis mutandis, something similar happened with the volume we are dealing with: it is not about literature or about an actual loss, but about a reduced and incoherent reception of a revolutionary work for the present domain of Romanian language teaching, mainly owed to a weak diffusion of the book. As a rule, in the teaching process there is more attention given to teaching than to evaluating, which makes the book already interesting through the chosen topic. However, the related data, Romanian as a foreign language and the alignment of its evaluation with the Common European Framework for Languages, turn the 434 pages into a stepping stone for the field. This is the reason why I considered that the volume still deserves to be promoted, even though more than five years have passed since its publishing.