Lists the Spanish verbs most frequently used in various texts, in order of frequency. (NCR)

Discusses the "francais fondamental" treatment of vocabulary, and proposes modifications for improvement of this tool. (AM)

As an aid to language teaching and learning, this article posits rules that account for the realization of French final consonants in the majority of their occurrences. (Author/KM)

This article traces the history of several themes in applied linguistics and to show the relationships between linguistic theory and the sciences concerned with the learning and teaching of languages. Interest in word frequency statistics is discussed in particular. (Text is in Italian.) (CFM)

Lists the Spanish verbs most frequently used, in order of frequency. (NCR)

Outlines a method of determining which words should be selected as the basic vocabulary for French courses. Rather than using frequency as its criterion, this method defines lexical utility in terms of definition, inclusion, extension, and combination. The Quebec list and the Francais Fondamental are evaluated. (EJS)

This article discusses various approaches to vocabulary selection for second language teaching. The criteria of availability, familiarity, coverage, and meaning are suggested as important in vocabulary selection. (AM)

This is an alphabetized list of 400 frequent German words for rapid checking against the end glossaries of elementary German textbooks. The emphasis is on words that would not automatically be included in any such textbook as part of the structural and morphological inventory of German. Words on the list were selected from the list in order of…

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,…

Discusses the teaching of derivatives of irregular Spanish verbs in order to reinforce irregular patterns and increase the students' active vocabularies. (NCR)

This list contains 3,173 Italian words with indications of their relative difficulty. The collection was compiled from two earlier selections: (1) the "Knease List" of some 400,000 running words based on 40 Italian literary works published in Italy and scored according to range and frequency, and (2) the "Skinner List" constructed according to…

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)

Language teaching requires textbook material that contains the most frequent concepts of a language. The computer brings its tremendous information processing ability to the task of establishing word frequency rankings, but the computer is limited to counting word-forms and not semantic concepts. The most recent word frequency dictionaries, in…

This article discusses ways in which vocabulary building can be simplified for the student of Russian. Computer analysis of text vocabulary can assist in selecting words to be learned and assessing the relative difficulty of texts for both students and teachers. (CHK)