Answering the question "How does pragmadidactics compare with traditional teaching?," the article discusses the "success criterion," i.e., judging successful communication as opposed to language correctness. Considers also the concept of a functional learner's grammar, "idiomatic language," and pragmadidactic…

Discusses the importance foreign language study should have in the Australian school curriculum. (CFM)

Describes a 1978 experiment in which French conversations (among advanced students of French) were transmitted by satellite from Hawaii to other locations in the Pacific. (AM)

Examines the situation of language teaching and international studies in the United States, and makes projections for the future. (AM)

Presents a learning transfer principle, based on transfer theory and contrastive analysis, as a solution to the inductive-deductive controversy in second language teaching methodology. (AM)

Describes a method designed to teach the student of French how to obtain a train ticket. (AM)

The article attempts to show that the emphasis in foreign language teaching should not be on developing communicative competence but on developing reading skills. (CFM)

Presents for analysis actual texts and texts specially written for teaching, arriving at a basis for a typology of actual texts. Defines teaching aims using such texts, and develops, from a TV program, a teaching unit used in a Karlsruhe school. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Discusses a number of English publications on training in listening and reading comprehension; methodology is also discussed. Several requirements are mentioned for editing of such publications, since the mere compiling of texts which appear suitable is ineffective. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Discusses, with many examples, a new Russian dictionary by D. Rosental and M. Telenkowa which is considered excellent for advanced students of Russian because it not only provides information on spelling, punctuation, stress and grammar but also on the levels of usage of both words and constructions. (Text is in German.) (FB)

This article describes the use of an immediate, repetitive replay recording system. Photographs and text describe the system and its combination with another system to achieve the desired listen/record/compare sequence. (CHK)

The author describes a trip taken by high school French students to French Louisiana--preparations, fund-raising, travel and sightseeing. (CHK)

Discusses the use of audiovisual aids for the teaching of French in Japan. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Critizes the Norm Book for French Final (Abitur) Examination 1975 for German Schools, as to its arrangement and some resulting difficulties; also for its over-emphasis on written work over speaking. Additional publications are needed to make the existing requirements more specific. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Examines two recent books on the French chanson, and finds that the chanson is a desirable item in teaching French, specifically at Secondary Grade 2, for various reasons, including the students' interest in the subject. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)