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Why Aren't We Fluent?
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Aronson, Howard I. – Slavic and East European Journal, 1973
Discusses the problems of teaching Russian in American universities. (LG)
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Higher Education, Language Fluency, Language Instruction
The Problems of Practice in Teaching Chinese in The United States
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Wang Fang-yu – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1975
(Text is in Chinese.)
Descriptors: Chinese, College Language Programs, Higher Education, Language Fluency
The Strange Case of French 31: A Glimmer of Hope?
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Butler, Harry L. – French Review, 1978
Describes a French diction and oral communication course conducted at Franklin and Marshall College. Originally envisioned as a "necessary evil" to train students to write and deliver seminar papers, the course unexpectedly appealed to students as a practical experience while developing increased student interest in French language and literature.…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, College Language Programs, College Second Language Programs, Conversational Language Courses
German Language Attainment: A Sample Survey of Universities and Colleges in the UK.
Gomes da Costa, B.; And Others – 1975
This report presents the findings of a survey carried out in 1970 on nearly 200 degree students in England and Wales studying German as their main subject. The objectives of the survey were to: (1) determine the ranges of language proficiency attained by British graduates in German at various universities and other colleges; (2) interpret these…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, College Language Programs, College Students, Degrees (Academic)
A Program in ESL Student Self-Monitoring at the University of California, Davis.
Schwabe, Tippy – 1978
A new program developed during 1975-76 as part of the English as a second language curriculum at the University of California, Davis, is designed to enable students to listen to their oral English for pronunciation and grammatical self-correction. Students are aided in identifying and correcting their errors through tape-recorded sessions with a…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
A Study of the Comparative Effectiveness of Two Methods of Teaching Reading to Hispanic (ESL) English As A Second Language College Students.
O'Neill, Stephen P. – 1978
The questions investigated in this study concern the adequacy of the current comprehensive English as a Second Language (ESL) programs, the need for a separate but complementary reading program, the relative merits of a classroom-based or an independent reading laboratory method, and the relationship between native language reading proficiency and…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, College Students, Educational Experiments, English (Second Language)