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Peer reviewedDietz, Donald T. – ADFL Bulletin, 1978
This article discusses an alternative method of teaching literature in a foreign language class using a humanistic approach. (CFM)
Descriptors: Humanistic Education, Language Instruction, Literary Criticism, Literature
Peer reviewedMcDowell, Cynthia Newberry – French Review, 1979
Proposes a method for teaching vocabulary in the second language classroom, which associates one word (an "identification term") with a string of semantically-related synonyms. (AM)
Descriptors: French, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Semantics
Peer reviewedDube, Pierre H. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Provides examples of humorous errors in written exams made by university students of French and Canadian culture. (AM)
Descriptors: Cultural Education, French, Higher Education, Humor
Peer reviewedClausing, Gerhard; Senko, Donna – Unterrichtspraxis, 1978
Cloze testing and language performance is discussed as are two techniques for awarding partial credit: the quick performance measurement and feedback technique and the three-stage scoring hierarchy for partial credit. A figure and tables are included. (EJS)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Language Instruction, Language Tests, Scoring Formulas
Titone, R.; Sanzo, R. – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1978
This article describes the first phase of a project designed to introduce the teaching of English and French into a certain number of classes in elementary schools in Turin, Milan, Rome, and Naples, Italy. (CFM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English (Second Language), FLES, French
Peer reviewedGaarder, Bruce – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1978
Two golden rules for teachers of young children are (1) work, speak, and act with complete naturalness, and (2) never try to teach language per se; rather, teach life (joy, sorrow, work, play, differentiation, self-awareness, etc.) by involving the children in situations and activities that are highly significant to them. (NQ)
Descriptors: Children, Guidelines, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction
Weinrib, Alice – Orbit 34, 1976
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, French, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedBruck, Maggie; Swain, Merrill – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1976
A conference was held in Montreal in November 1975 which focused on research related to the immersion approach to second language teaching. Background information and purposes of the conference are given. (RM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Conferences, FLES, French
Schuele, Klaus – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1976
Discusses the role speech-act theory can play in foreign language teaching. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedChvany, Catherine V. – Slavic and East European Journal, 1975
Current linguistic research in syntax and morphology may have positive results for language teaching, but caution is required as linguistic theory grows more abstract. (CHK)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages), Russian
Peer reviewedSteele, Richard D. – Slavic and East European Journal, 1975
A unified, coherent pedagogical treatment of stress in all inflected words in Russian is elaborated here, using three notational symbols: the acute, the crossed acute and the wedge. (CHK)
Descriptors: Educational Media, Language Instruction, Nouns, Russian
Gloeckner, Heinrich – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1975
A theoretical analysis of the reply (in conversation), from which, it is claimed, conclusions may be drawn for methodological work. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Dialogs (Literary), Interaction, Language Instruction, Responses
Peer reviewedKirch, Max S. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1975
Suggests a solution to the problems of uninflected adverbs and predicate adjectives and the statal passive when teaching German. (CHK)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, German, Grammar
Rattunde, Eckhard – Neueren Sprachen, 1974
In connection with two French grammatical problems (des bons amis - de bons amis; quatre-vingts-deux ans - quatre-vingt-deux ans), there is a discussion of consideration of the efforts toward reform of French orthography and of the decree of 1901, still in effect in France, for the choice of teaching materials for basic courses in "French as a…
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction
Schroeder, Konrad – Neueren Sprachen, 1974
Proceeding from a presentation of the present state of discussion as well as of the unsolved or only apparently solved problem, the article attempts, in the light of curricular-based need for internally individualized types of work, to give suggestions for the organization of content for individualized instruction. In this connection, a theory, as…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Organization, Individualized Instruction, Language Instruction
