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Peer reviewedTownsend, Charles E. – Slavic and East European Journal, 1975
Problems encountered by Russian language students caused by noncorrespondence of meaning are described. It is argued that many of the difficulties which students encounter in learning vocabulary result from semantic shifts within Russian. (RM)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Instruction, Language Universals, Russian
Helbig, Gerhard – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1975
Discusses differences between text and dialog. Characteristics of dialog--ellipsis, use of function-words, valence-reductions, specific sentence models, placement of sentence elements, sentence depth, internal sentence structure--set limits to the teachability of dialog. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Dialogs (Literary), German, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Sachs, Sabine – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1975
A teaching method should embrace the total process of utilizing language material down to the application of the newly acquired knowledge in speech. FL learning should be situationally based and divided into speech activity units, to each of which the corresponding teaching method should be applied. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Speech Communication, Speech Skills
Bludau, Michael; And Others – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1974
In 1973 a commission of the FMF (Modern Foreign Language League, Federal Republic of Germany) published a proposal for a taxonomy of activity characteristics of the FL teacher. Kurt Otten criticized this proposal in the weekly "Die Zeit" (19 April 1974). Here, members of the FMF commission reject four of Otten's assertions. (Text is in…
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Teacher Behavior
Peer reviewedWells, David J. – French Review, 1975
Descriptors: Class Activities, Language Instruction, Role Playing, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedChamberlain, Alan – Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers' Associations, 1974
Discusses the possibilities and desirability of using French popular music and folk songs in teaching French as a second language. (RM)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, French, Language Instruction, Music
Peer reviewedSchrand, Heinrich – Zielsprache Englisch, 1975
Under the topic "Dialog," eight references to magazine articles are given. To each is added an abstract. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Literature Reviews, Periodicals
Green, Peter – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1974
Discusses differences in second language students which account for differences in success. Four factors--intelligence, parental support, previous experience and language aptitude--were used in the York study to predict language learning success. Results of those tests are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Language Instruction, Language Tests
Peer reviewedPhil, Geoffrey – NALLD Journal, 1974
Students generally prefer "custom-made" laboratory tapes, as opposed to "traditional" commercially supplied tapes. (LG)
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Language Instruction, Language Laboratories, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedOller, John W., Jr. – Foreign Language Annals, 1974
The native speaker's knowledge of his language is characterized as a grammar of expectancy that incorporates pragmatic knowledge of the world. Thus, in teaching a second language, the student must be allowed to take advantage of previously acquired expectations about situations while learning a new grammar of expectancy. (Author/LG)
Descriptors: Expectation, Grammar, Language Instruction, Linguistic Competence
Peer reviewedLaws, Peter – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1974
Discusses the differences between first language learning and second language learning, examines arguments for and against an early start in second language learning and surveys recent and current practices in second language learning and teaching. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedSaitz, Robert L. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1974
Stresses the need for all language teachers, and second language teachers in particular, to suit the content and the methodology of their lessons to their particular group of students. (PM)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Student Motivation, Student Needs
Masciantonio, Rudolph – American Foreign Language Teacher, 1974
Describes in detail a complete Latin lesson for a heterogeneously grouped 5th and 6th grade class in an inner city public school in Philadelphia. (PM)
Descriptors: FLES, Language Instruction, Latin, Lesson Plans
Peer reviewedVander Beek, Johanna C. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1974
By studying another language, a student's view of his own environment is expanded. (LG)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Culture Contact, French, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedClausing, Gerhard; Wood, Cecil – NALLD Journal, 1974
Describes the computer-aided program in first-year German at the University of Minnesota. (PM)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, German, Language Instruction
