An experiment is reported which was designed to determine whether the beginning student's ability to discriminate the sounds of Spanish can be increased by specific training which supplements the current texts. Training to improve discrimination included analytical material from the text and lectures, as well as listening exercises. (Author/RM)

Two articles discuss educational policy in Germany regarding foriegn language teaching. One pleads for giving French a fair chance along with English. The other agrees that no one language should be favored, and says that the whole question needs thorough consideration and that adequate planning is required. (IFS/WGA)

Discusses the value of self-evaluation to the adult second language learner; the tools of self-evaluation; and the relationship of self-evaluation to other forms of evaluation, to learning, and to instruction. (AM)

Discusses the nuances in meaning represented by the French adjective with relation to its position in a noun phrase, and by the use of the French subjunctive. (AM)

Finds school television broadcasting a useful language teaching device, and television films in particular useful for "situational teaching." Various aspects are discussed, including the use of video recorders. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Discusses the importance of pronunciation in teaching English as a second language. The role of stress in English is emphasized in particular. (KM)

Teaching and testing writing can be structured so that the student progresses through a number of stages involving copying and developing sentences from: nonprint visual stimuli, manipulation of the printed word, visual stimulus by means of word completions, and oral stimuli. Sample exercises and evaluation formula are presented. (SW)

Describes a method which uses the language laboratory to help the teacher correct individual students' pronunciation and which assists the student in memorizing dialogues. (AM)

Recommends starting the study of French at 13 rather than the usual 9 in British schools. Discusses the problems of trying to merge pupils from a variety of middle school classes into one upper school French class. (MLA)

Describes the techniques used by Dr. John A. Rassias, professor of romance languages and literature at Dartmouth College, in teaching intensive foreign language courses. (RK)

Gives a typology of various possible approaches to grammar teaching, involving grammars for learning, for skill acquisition, and those which look at course organization, media and teaching aids. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Cites experience from a project (in Kiel) teaching German as a second language to show that second language acquisition proceeds not haphazardly but in a well-defined order of stages. As yet not enough is known about what determines these stages to warrant conclusions for teaching purposes. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

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)

English modal verbs constitute a problem for the student of English as a foreign language. This study presents a methodology for a systematic presentation of the meaning of modal verbs. The modals "can,""may,""must," and "have to" are studied. (SW)

This quarterly bibliography includes books, articles, bibliographies and reviews published here or abroad by scholars residing in the United States or Canada. Coverage includes comparative literature studies; translations; publications on art, music, philosophy, history, cinema, and sociology; and studies pertinent to the Italian-American…