Suggests that music and drama offer excellent opportunities for "pleasant repetition," a practice of structures and vocabulary that is motivational and contextualized. (Author/VWL)

Stresses importance of student input in field of computer-assisted language instruction. Provides an overview of student input, its recognition, and some uses of its recognition. By understanding the potential of student-computer interaction, those who are considering the computer for use in their foreign language curriculum may be able to…

Outlines a stock market activity that has helped English for specific purposes students in business school learn technical vocabulary. The objective is to minimize confusion by using visuals with written and spoken words, and to find effective ways of promoting learning and generating motivation. (Author/VWL)

Four elements are essential for efficient, effective, and rewarding teaching of beginning reading. The first is the use of children's key vocabulary. Children are asked, in a prescribed fashion, what their very best word is of the moment. The teacher prints it in a prescribed fashion and uses it to help children acquire one-to-one correspondence…

Presents essential principles to consider when designing free-form remedial/tutorial program courseware for second language learning. They include: (1) adaptability, in terms of instruction requirements and user population needs; (2) user-friendliness, to reduce machine-induced fears; (3) sophistication in error analysis; and (4) flexibility, to…