Discusses the application stage of the language teaching process, its purpose, some effective application activities and certain techniques for conducting these activities. (PP)

The traditional approach in teaching the Japanese copula is shown to be linguistically and pedagogically defective. An alternative analysis of -da and -desu and a practical method of presenting them is demonstrated. (HP)

Paper presented at the Language, Culture, and Society session of the Annual Conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, Vancouver, B.C., June 14, 1973. (DD)

Speakers of many Oriental languages find it difficult to distinguish systematically between the /l/ and /r/ phonemes. Due to the importance of recognizing these contrasts in English, the teaching of these phonemes should be one of the foremost elements in teaching English as a second language to Asian students. (CFM)

Students of Japanese history (graduate students with language competence seeking a career in Japanese studies, undergraduates studying the Japanese language, and non-linguist undergraduates and graduate students studying Japanese history for a variety of reasons) have to deal with the Japanese language in different ways. They should all, however,…

This historical overview of German studies in Japan, dating from the birth of modern Japan in the 1870's to the present time, includes commentary on the nature and scope of existing language programs. The importance of German idealism--reflected in the philosophy of Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Marx--on Japanese culture is noted.…

Reports on individualized instruction in action in a California public high school. (PP)

The author reports on the organization and methodology of her Japanese program for the primary grades in Canberra, Australia. (PMP)

Colleges are ranked based on results of a Spring 1973 survey on the number of full-time and part-time professors of Japanese and on the number of undergrad and grad students of Japanese. In the questionnaire circulated among 53 institutions, questions regarding textbooks and cultural materials were also asked. (SC)

The current approach in teaching Japanese as a second language is questioned as inefficient. The forward-looking approach does not condition students to expect that they must learn all the items of a set before being able to learn anything else. (HP)

The Japanese Keigo system is the whole of the grammatical rules related to expressions of respectful or pejorative feelings concerning all persons involved in speech acts. This article proposes a new approach to the problem of teaching this system at the elementary level. (CLK)

Revised version of a report presented at the conference on American study-abroad programs in Tokyo, Japan, March 1973. (DD)

Classical Japanese refers to the language used from the Nara Period to the Edo Period; suggests using classical expressions which have been retained in Modern Japanese as a familiar point of departure for learning the classical language. (DD)