To help educators in the Southeast meet the needs of English language learners, SERVE has developed this report, which provides a synthesis of federal and state policies, descriptions of and research on instructional programs, and a closer look at trends, policies, and programs in the Southeast. The summary data presented here should be viewed by…

This bibliography is intended to assist program directors and teachers in selecting English language/Civics texts for their own particular populations and goals. Data on 36 student texts and any accompanying teachers' manuals (9 in all) and 5 reference books in print in 2001 are contained in the current bibliography, as well as two videotapes.…

A variety of special purpose Spanish dictionaries available for students of Spanish are described, including dictionaries of groupings of associated words, technical language, regional and slang language, single authors' usage, historical periods, etymology, frequency, and reverse organization. Several illustrations of dictionary organization are…

Examines the use of dramatic techniques as tools for learning in the second language classroom. Discusses different ways to use improvisation. (EKN)

Discusses the development of a language aptitude test designed to help select students to study German. Four areas of assessment are memory ability, ability to deal with stress and intonation patterns, inductive reasoning ability, and ability to recognize grammatical case. (EKN)

Proposes concept of the Teacher Value System as explanation for the phenomenon of students in foreign language classroom producing nonsensical utterances. Argues that these statements are product of particular patterns of teacher behavior. Believes this explanation affords insight into some prerequisites for communicative teaching. (Author/BK)

Through the example of "La Grande Illusion," the value of film study in an academic curriculum is discussed. A suggested teaching program for an economical yet comprehensive study of a single film is suggested. (PMJ)

The value of the language laboratory of self-instruction is stressed. Methods of using multi-phase drills are given, proceeding from cue repetition to open-ended situations. The presentation of prose texts in the laboratory is examined. (Author/JB)

Consists of a curriculum guide prepared by teachers of English as a second language to children between the ages of five and seven in the "English to Immigrants" service of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell. (CFM)

Discusses semantic differences in the use of "simple" and "continuous" forms of the verb in English. Also discussed are variations found in the various temporal levels: present, future, perfect, and past, as well as in combinations with the modals "may" and "must,""could" and "might," and…

The use of teacher-made captions or subtitles to accompany slide and film presentations in foreign language classes is discussed. (JB)

Discusses the need for both a "rule of thumb" grammar and more thorough grammatical rules in second language teaching. (AM)

Discusses the problems involved in teaching Italian students the English equivalents of the verb "dovere." (CFM)

Presents a learning transfer principle, based on transfer theory and contrastive analysis, as a solution to the inductive-deductive controversy in second language teaching methodology. (AM)

Culturally specific compounds in Chinese could be more effectively studied from a cognitive approach, using the underlying idealized cognitive models defined by Lakoff. It is argued that the formation of Chinese compounds are systematically guided by idealized cognitive models and compounds are semantically compositional. (seven references) (LB)