This first volume in the Defense Language Institute's 12-week course in Japanese presents an introduction to Japanese phonology for the non-linguist beginning student, and a description of the format used throughout the DLI series (perception drills, dialogues with English equivalents, grammar notes, and exercises and conversations). This volume…

This volume, the second in a series comprising the field-test edition of the Defense Language Institute's "Haitian Creole Basic Course," is extracted primarily from the instructor's guide to materials contained in Albert Valdman's "Basic Course in Haitian Creole." Materials are arranged in the order of their use in the classroom. Content of each…

This field-test edition of the revised "Indonesian Basic Course" was prepared by the Defense Language Institute. Lessons include materials on: (1) location, question words, and classifiers; (2) negative requests and time words; (3) duration; (4) nouns; (5) relative pronouns and adjectives; (6) disbelief or amazement; and (7) reduplication of…

This volume, the third in a series comprising the field-test edition of the Defense Language Institute's "Haitian Creole Basic Course," is extracted primarily from the instructor's guide to materials contained in Albert Valdman's "Basic Course in Haitian Creole." Materials are arranged in the order of their use in the…

The "Intensive Course in English" is a series of six books: Elementary, Part 1; Elementary Part 2; Intermediate (Volume I); Advanced 1 (Volume II); Advanced 2 (Volume III); Specialized Studies (Volume IV--Education), and 250 pre-recorded tapes. This series was designed for use in programs with emphasis in oral-aural training, and the development…

Describes a prototype multi-channel college language course in which instruction depends on the latest findings of psycholinguistics and on the systematic use of television. (KM)

A 10-WEEK INTENSIVE COURSE IN ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WAS DEVELOPED AT MISSISSIPPI SOUTHERN COLLEGE AND CONSIDERABLE EXPERIMENTING WAS DONE WITH DIFFERENT METHODS, MATERIALS, AND TECHNIQUES. THE GOVERNING ASSUMPTIONS WERE THAT LANGUAGE BASICALLY CONSISTS OF SPEECH OR SOUND, AND THAT THE MASTERY OF A SOUND SYSTEM INVOLVES THE MASTERY OF THE…

These 15 volumes of the Basic Polish Course, prepared for use in the Defense Language Institute's intensive language program, comprise Lessons 1-124. They are disigned to train native English language speakers to Level 3 proficiency in comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing Polish. (Level 5 is native-speaker fluency.) The phonological…

This course in Czech, consisting of 162 lessons in 19 volumes, is designed to train native English Speakers to a level 3 proficiency in comprehension and speaking and level 3 proficiency in reading and writing Czech. The texts are intended for classroom use in the Defense Language Institute's intensive programs employing the audiolingual…

The seventeenth of 20 volumes of lessons designed for use in a full-time, intensive training program in Arabic is presented. The lessons in this volume are concerned with increasing reading comprehension skills. Passages in both journalistic and literary style are reproduced. Various kinds of vocabulary building and reading comprehension exercises…

ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL ACT FUNDS SUPPORTED A SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, PUBLIC SCHOOLS' SUMMER ACTIVITY DESIGNED TO PROVIDE INTENSIVE LANGUAGE TRAINING IN FRENCH, GERMAN, AND SPANISH FOR 56 SELECTED STUDENTS. THE 6-HOUR DAILY SCHEDULE INCLUDED TWO HOURS DEVOTED TO ORAL EXPRESSION, TWO TO LITERATURE STUDY, AND TWO TO CULTURE-ORIENTED…

This 12-week course in beginning Portuguese comprises four volumes of student text (Lessons 1-55) and a fifth volume of Portuguese-English/English-Portuguese vocabulary. Lesson materials consist of basic dialogs with English translation, recombination dialogs, readings and comprehension questions, oral exercises, and in later units, additional…

The aim of this volume is to provide the student with a thorough command of the basic structures of standard spoken Cambodian. The course is based on the audio-oral method of language teaching developed by the Intensive Language Program of the American Council of Learned Societies and used successfully during World War II, but modified to take…

This text is intended for use in a college-level course in Bolivian Quechua for speakers of English. It is divided into thirty units and is specifically designed for a two-semester academic year of fifteen weeks a semester. The entire text is highly structured, carefully graded, and organized on the principles of the audiolingual approach to…