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Peer reviewedModern Language Journal, 1976
Members of the Joint National Committee for Languages are called upon to participate in a national campaign to take the case for language study before the American public. (RM)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Language Instruction, Professional Associations, Public Opinion
Sapin-Ligneres, Bertrand – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1978
Proposes a method for French language instruction that uses an unidentified object, that is, an object constructed in such a way as to represent different things to different students. (AM)
Descriptors: French, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Olivieri, Claude; And Others – Francais dans le Monde, 1977
Provides examples of: (1) forms to be filled out on French daily life; (2) personal announcements in the newspaper; and (3) problems in municipal government, for use in an advanced French class. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Educational Media, French, Language Instruction, Learning Activities
Walmsley, John Brian – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1977
Recognizes three kinds of motivation: Societally induced, native, and motivation acquired in early life. Implications for teaching are discussed, both in general and specifically in foreign language teaching. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Motivation, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedVelleman, Barry L. – Hispania, 1977
Discusses, for the benefit of English-speaking students, the use of the article with personal titles in Spanish. (RM)
Descriptors: Function Words, Language Instruction, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
Porquier, Remy – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1977
Summarizes the usefulness and the disadvantage of error analysis, and discusses a reorientation of error analysis, specifically regarding grammar instruction and the significance of errors. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Grammar, Language Instruction, Psycholinguistics
Peer reviewedMills, Geoff – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1977
Argues for an integral role of contrastive analysis and translation in a foreign language teaching program. (AM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Butzkamm, Wolfgang – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1977
Argues against the thesis that exact translation is impossible, because languages reflect different world-views or different cognitive structures (de Saussure, Humboldt, Whorf, Weisgerber). The possibility of underlying universals (Lenneberg, Heger) must be considered and discussed in the field of language teacing. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Language, Language Instruction, Language Universals, Second Language Learning
Mansfield, Norma – Educational Broadcasting International, 1971
Descriptors: Educational Radio, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedBroughton, Geoffrey – Educational Media International, 1971
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Instructional Films, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedBung, Klaus – Educational Media International, 1971
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cybernetics, Language Instruction, Programed Instructional Materials
Clark, John – Audiovisual Lang J, 1969
The second language learner, in acquiring grammatical rules, must draw hypotheses about language from exposure to examples and use these hypotheses for creating further utterances. Mistakes which force the formation of new hypotheses are a natural part of this process. A sample lesson taking these factors into consideration is presented. (FWB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Instruction, Learning Processes
Bruce, Michael G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1980
Outlines the state of foreign language instruction in Europe and the forces affecting it. (IRT)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Alosco, Salvatore – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1978
States the reasons for introducing the study of foreign languages as early as possible in the scholastic curriculum. (CFM)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, FLES, Language Instruction
Jungo, Michael – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1978
Outlines a project for setting up bilingual schools for Italian children in Switzerland and Germany and discusses the advantages of doing so. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Immigrants, Italian
