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The Use of the Language Laboratory for Phonetics at Advanced Levels of English Learning

Evans, Lyn – Lang Learning, 1970

Descriptors: English Instruction, Intonation, Language Fluency, Language Laboratories

Dialogische Strukturubungen im franzosischen Klassenunterricht (Dialogue-Structure Drills in French Instruction)

Hohmann, Heinz-Otto – Praxis des Neusprachlichen Unterrichts, 1970

Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Dialogs (Literary), French, Language Fluency

Talking Off the Tops of Their Heads

Peer reviewed

Rivers, Wilga M. – TESOL Quarterly, 1972

Opportunities for autonomous interaction and creative communication should accompany the necessary skill-getting activities in second language learning. Paper presented under contract with the English Language Branch--Defense Language Institute, Lackland Air Force Base, Lackland, Texas, and delivered in 1971 to staff members of the Branch. (VM)

Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication (Thought Transfer), Innovation, Interaction

Verwendungsmoglichkeiten der Flanelltafel im Franzosischunterricht (Possible Uses of the Flannelboard in French Instruction)

Mengler, Klaus – Praxis des Neusprachlichen Unterrichts, 1970

Revised version of a paper read on June 17, 1969, at a conference at the Hessian Institute for Continuing Teacher Education. (DS)

Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Audiovisual Aids, Display Aids

Rotation Drills in Teaching Conversation

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Sinnema, John R. – Modern Language Journal, 1971

Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Conversational Language Courses, Discussion (Teaching Technique), German

Die Gestaltung eines effeckitiven Ubungssystems in einem modernen Deutschlehrbruch fur den Anfrangsunterricht (The Formation of an Effective Drill System in a Modern German Text for Elementary Instruction)

Iliewa, Anna – Deut Fremdsprache, 1970

Descriptors: German, Language Fluency, Language Learning Levels, Language Patterns

Computer Assisted Language Learning: Using L1 Software with L2 Students.

Baltra, Armando – 1984

The use of two types of commercially available Apple computer educational software in English for the development of accuracy and fluency in students of English as a second language is described. One type of program is aimed at the drilling and practice of grammar in English. Some of these programs have interesting formats and allow the teacher to…

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, English (Second Language), Games

A View of the Pattern Drill in a Rational Context

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Zelson, Sidney N. J. – Hispania, 1978

The article compares the use of pattern drills to contextualized practice and suggests that although the second is a more personally meaningful approach, the pattern drills can provide a means through which the operations of many language features will be made more apparent to the learner. (NCR)

Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Fluency, Language Instruction

Rise, Sally, Rise: Communication through Dance.

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Bell, Davia – TESOL Journal, 1999

Explores ring games--where participants form a circle, sing, dance, and take turns entering the circle--and how they can be used in the second-language classroom. The playful integration of vocalization and rhythmic body movement can have a powerful influence on speech fluency. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Dance, Educational Games, English (Second Language)

A Conceptual Framework for Small-Group Instruction in High School

Ciotti, Marianne C. – Foreign Lang Ann, 1969

Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Conversational Language Courses, Cultural Context, Experimental Groups

German: Special Course. Volume 1, Lessons 1-11.

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Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1975

This special 12-week course in German has 55 lessons in five volumes. The sixth volume contains a German-English and an English-German vocabulary. This volume contains lessons 1-11. Each lesson has two dialogs, question-answer exercises, reading passages and questions for comprehension, and grammar explanations and examples. The grammar…