Productions of a German acting troupe can enhance language programs. Ideas are shared on inviting such a troupe to a school and on providing a successful cultural, academic, and personal experience. Information is based on the Tri-Buhne Stuttgart troupe's tour of German departments in the Eastern United States. (SW)

Discusses the use of pictures in the language classroom and presents controlled and non-controlled activities incorporating pictures. (AM)

Recommends composition writing on carefully chosen subjects in the initial stages of French training. The teacher corrects compositions and creates an "error frequency profile" for the entire class. (MLA)

Approves of role-playing as training in situational dialogues, but objects to controversial subject matter, especially sociological and political. Prefers the term "scene play." (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Johns Hopkins University has become affiliated with a Germanistisches Institut in Germany in order to establish a graduate program abroad. The arrangement between the schools is described. (SW)

Many examples of the present perfect tense are proposed. These are accompanied by simple rules to help the student get a clear idea and better grasp of the use of the present perfect in British English. The article is designed for teachers of English to Francophones. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

In Finland, German ranks third among foreign languages taught, and is declining. To encourage its study, one should avoid using long and uninteresting textbooks. As examples of good texts, W. Biermann's "Soldatenlied" and "Kleinstadtsonntag" are suggested. These portray facets of postwar Germany. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Sentences in a high school French I textbook were examined to determine the extent to which the writers controlled French syntactic surface structures in terms of their differences with English equivalents. Results show students were exposed to L1-L2 syntactic differences without explanation, and such sentences could cause future difficulties.…

A pilot study was conducted with German students utilizing the campus amateur radio station. Contacts were maintained with five German-speaking stations. Students expressed enthusiasm for the radio station and appeared more interested in German language and culture classes. (Author/SW)

French enrollments are losing ground in all regions of West Germany. It is suggested that emphasis should be placed on French as a second foreign language, after English. Various aspects of the situation in schools and universities are discussed. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Gives a history of traditional and audiolingual methods of language teaching. Reports on one Swedish and two U.S. long-term experiments. The two methods are found to be of about equal value. The most recent publications reveal a tendency to synthesize the two. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Numerous experiments in the early introducing of English teaching show this approach to be the most successful. The tendency to drop these projects for economy's sake is lamentable. Introducing English at the primary level would greatly improve English teaching at the junior high school level. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Shows, by citing entries in dictionaries and vocabularies of teaching texts, that there is no clear concept of how to or whether to pronounce the /d/ in "grandfather" and similar words. It is deemed best to teach that the /d/ should be sounded. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

A two-dimensional system used by speakers of Spanish to make imperative utterances is outlined. The system consists of the basic verb forms that make up the nuclei of such utterances and oblique marker usage, which consists for the most part of syntactic modification of base forms. (Author/HP)

An analysis is given of certain clitic pronouns that are the source of confusion in the classroom and for which fully satisfying explanations are not to be found in traditional grammars and contemporary studies. (Author/HP)