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Germain, Claude – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1975
Discusses the role of illustrations used to clarify the meaning of dialogues in instruction in French as a second language. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Dialogs (Literary), French, Illustrations
Fresnault-Deruelle, P. – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1975
Discusses the use of comic strips, especially English-language strips, to communicate linguistic and sociocultural factors in the FL classroom. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Comics (Publications), Cultural Education, English (Second Language), Illustrations
Koepf, Detlev – Praxis des Neusprachlichen Unterrichts, 1975
Discusses texts in the audiovisual field, giving controversial viewpoints in methodology and pedagogy: late introduction of writing, teaching grammar, the use of pictures, significance of memorizing, etc. Second part offers for discussion a catalog of criteria which may offer assistance in the selection of suitable audiovisual courses. (Text is in…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Grammar, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedKoch, Ingeborg – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1975
Discusses the effects of perpetuating national stereotypes in FL instruction and offers some up-to-date approaches to teaching cultural background not based on cliches. (KM)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Images, Ethnic Stereotypes
Peer reviewedStern, H. H. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1975
Discusses the strategies of good language learning and names ten features that mark the good language learner. (KM)
Descriptors: Language Ability, Language Fluency, Language Instruction, Language Learning Levels
Foerster, Ursula – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1974
In teaching adults (i.e., those with language competence between the levels of a high school graduate and a teacher or interpreter), one must consider psychological factors; six are listed, including logic and mental activity in memorizing. Suggestions for drill are given. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Advanced Students, Cognitive Processes, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedBidwell, Jean S. – Foreign Language Annals, 1975
Teacher accountability should be a means of improving instruction and renewing professionalism. Accountability should alleviate problems of articulation between the various levels of foreign language study. The measurement of achievement would be improved by initiating positive evaluation based on minimal performance objectives. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Behavioral Objectives, Language Instruction
Le bilinguisme et l'enseignement d'une langue etrangere (Bilingualism and Foreign Language Teaching)
Dabrowska, Jadwiga – Glottodidactica, 1975
Discusses the notion of bilingualism, the role of interference in language instruction to bilingual students, training for language teachers, and socio-cultural factors in second language learning. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Cultural Influences, Interference (Language)
Peer reviewedCoveney, J. – System, 1975
When teaching languages to technologists the subject should be neither entirely technological nor entirely alien to the technical discipline. At the University of Bath a B.Sc. degree can be obtained in engineering with French or German. Both languages are used as a medium of instruction for some engineering courses. (SC)
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Degree Requirements, Engineering, Engineers
Peer reviewedMonroe, James – French Review, 1975
Describes techniques for measuring and developing the syntactic fluency of students learning French. (P M P)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, French, Language Fluency, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedGoldberg, J. Philip; Bordman, Marcia B. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1975
Descriptors: Deafness, English, English (Second Language), Exceptional Child Education
Ure, Jean N. – Engl Lang Teaching, 1969
Second part of article begun in Engl Lang Teaching, v23 n2, Jan 1969.
Descriptors: English, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Styles
Yeni-Komshian, Grace H.; Lambert, Wallace E. – J Educ Psychol, 1969
Part II of the first author's PhD dissertation, submitted to McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1965).
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Language Instruction, Language Research, Learning Processes
Walsh, Donald D. – Foreign Lang Ann, 1969
Adapted from a commencement address given at the Middlebury College Summer Language Schools, Middlebury, Vermont, August 13, 1968.
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Educational Objectives, Educationally Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedGenesee, Fred – McGill Journal of Education, 1978
The notion that second language instruction is more effective if begun at an early age is seen as arising from cognitive-nativist and neuropsychological postulates, and from the argument of "affective purity." Each of these positions is reviewed, along with frequently-heard objections to each. A fresh perspective on the issue is thus…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Language, Children, Cognitive Processes
