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Peer reviewedBerwald, Jean-Pierre – French Review, 1976
This article discusses the use of commercial television programs as a tool for teaching French. (CLK)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Commercial Television, French, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedMichalczyk, John J. – French Review, 1976
This article discusses the use of films for the teaching of French civilization at the university level. (CLK)
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Cultural Education, Cultural Influences, Films
Peer reviewedWoodle, Gary – French Review, 1976
This article discusses a method of teaching French that would depend less on the textbook in the classroom situation, and significantly on an affective approach that enables the teacher to elicit the material to be used as examples from the students themselves. (CLK)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Language Programs, Curriculum Development, French
Peer reviewedHolt, Ron F. – Babel, 1976
This article presents statistics regarding numbers of students studying various foreign languages in Australia, and notes the decline in language study. It is observed that the range of language offered should be expanded and development of speech skills emphasized. (CHK)
Descriptors: Language Enrollment, Language Instruction, Language Programs, National Surveys
Peer reviewedSobelman, C. P. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1976
This paper discusses the problem of textbook selection for Chinese instruction, and considers the role of Chinese language teachers and content of Chinese courses. Lists of supplementary materials for PRC and DeFrancis texts are appended. (CHK)
Descriptors: Chinese, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction, Language Role
Peer reviewedWhalen, Suzanne – Russian Language Journal, 1976
Proposes an analysis of the impersonal sentence in Russian based on the Fillmorian case grammar model and intended for use in second language instruction. (CHK)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedCowles, Hovey M. – Foreign Language Annals, 1976
This article presents a checksheet for systematically evaluating foreign language textual materials. (CLK)
Descriptors: Check Lists, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedDecker, Henry W. – Modern Language Journal, 1976
Describes a project designed to investigate the use of computer-aided instruction in the teaching of French syntax. (CLK)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, French, Grammar
Peer reviewedLantolf, James P. – Modern Language Journal, 1976
Reviews significant endeavors in the teaching of intonation, and outlines a specific technique of the instruction of suprasegmentals. (CLK)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Intonation, Language Instruction, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedAlatis, James E. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1976
The attitude and motivation of the second language student and their importance for the teaching of English as a second language are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Ethnocentrism, Language Instruction, Psycholinguistics
Peer reviewedRees, Alun L. W. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1976
The need for mastery of question forms by the English language learner is discussed. A system of techniques for use with a group of intermediate young adult learners familiar with question patterns but lacking oral practice is suggested. (RM)
Descriptors: Adult Students, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Patterns
Imsieke, Hildegard – Praxis des Neusprachlichen Unterrichts, 1976
Presents a sample class assignment in which students are challenged to examine a text on their own. The text, from "L'Expres," on "Youth Strikes," was studied from the students' background of personal knowledge and of previous magazine articles. Questions are listed, and hints on evaluation given. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Evaluation Methods, French, Language Instruction
James, Allan R. – Praxis des Neusprachlichen Unterrichts, 1976
A questionnaire given to students and teachers of English in grades 9, 10, 12 and first-semester university students revealed that 70 percent rated most difficult the difference between English /s/ and /z/, and in fact all voiced-unvoiced consonant contrasts. Twenty-two percent mentioned intonation. Swabian dialect interference was considered.…
Descriptors: Dialects, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Interference (Language)
Peer reviewedStokes, P. M. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1975
Grammatical description that relates structure to language use can help the EFL teacher in cases where different interpretations of experience are expressed in English and the students' native language by, for example, clauses that are structurally identical. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Grammar
Peer reviewedWhitaker, S. F. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1975
Discusses the training of ESL teachers, specifically what the trainee can learn through experience as a student teacher. (RM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
