Presents practice drills on verb forms, pronouns, prepositions, and comparatives for Spanish students. (NCR)

Examines the plight of the overloaded secondary school foreign language teacher, with examples taken from Indiana statistics, and suggests that the attention of textbook writers and professional organizations be directed toward helping these teachers. (AM)

Presents a set of rules for learning grammatical gender in French. (AM)

Proposes a method for teaching reading comprehension in a second language that may be used on an individualized basis and that develops reading skill through inference. (AM)

Describes the way foreign languages have been taught in the Netherlands, the way reading comprehension in a foreign language is tested there, and educational objectives that should be taken into consideration in teaching foreign languages. (GT)

Describes the decline of foreign language study in the United States and lack of a national language policy. Encouragement has been fostered recently by the President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies, the Modern Language Association, and the American Council of Learned Societies Task Forces. (JMF)

Discusses a method that enables students of English to classify and organize their lexical capital by using triangles to diagram sentences. How to inscribe a sentence in a triangle is explained and illustrated. (CFM)

Discusses what cultural content should be taught in English classes at the university level and how this content should be taught. (CFM)

Using as examples two skills (semanticizing vocabulary and building first-phase exercises), presents a procedure for the practical training of foreign language teachers, based on the findings of empirical research. Describes five "observer's forms" and their use. Discusses the possibility of combining this form of skill training with systematic…

This paper explores the changing attitudes concerning sex-role stereotyping and discusses the part played by textbooks in the formation of sex-role attitudes. It examines in this regard a widely-used textbook for the teaching of French. (Author/CFM)

Examines the lack of consistency in the elementary level second language education system in West Germany, and makes suggestions for improvement. (AM)

Discusses two approaches to the teaching of culture in the foreign language classroom, concluding that the more popular approach is that based on the teaching of culture through language. (AM)

Examines the trend in Germany, away from a strict avoidance of the mother tongue in second language instruction. (AM)

Items discussed include: setting of communicative goals, meaning of the target skill "reading comprehension," group work, correcting, games, the monolingual approach, and teaching materials. (IFS/WGA)

Provides instructions for teaching four French Canadian folk dances. (AM)