A study indicates that students in French immersion programs in Canadian schools achieve superior progress in French and equal skill in English relative to students in partial immersion classes or traditional second-language study. (CK)

This paper explains a language teaching method derived from the questioning of students regarding the contents of a foreign language text; student responses are made in the target language. (CK)

Reports on a research study designed to find out more about the successful second language learner. By means of interviews, a list of the learning strategies of good language students was developed. (PMP)

Information about applied linguistics in China is presented. Some of the topics addressed are: the teaching of Chinese (comparable to the teaching of English here), the teaching of minority languages (comparable to bilingual education here), and the teaching of foreign languages. (SW)

Presents bases from school policy and general characteristics of teaching-material units, the main features and elements of each of said units, and the pedagogic-methodological functions of the various parts. Presentation is based on, as an example, the teaching unit "In the department store" (Grade 9). (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Contains remarks on the advantages and limitations of work with filmstrips, methodological procedures in the introduction of these, e.g. in vocabulary work, the treatment of grammatical points, and speaking both in monologue and in dialogue. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

(Text is in French.)

The author used a movie poster to initiate three weekly exercise sessions. The first concentrated on types of posters and notices, the ways they may be mounted, and how that activity may be described. The second phase was description of the poster's subject. The third concerned the myths and symbols and emotional qualities of the drama portrayed.…

Discusses and exemplifies the author's use of transformational methods to clarify the seemingly arbitrary use of "de" and "a" to introduce the infinitive in French. (Text is in French.) (MSE)

Describes one foreign language career conference and suggests ways to organize such a conference. (CK)

Reviews four approaches to selecting language textbooks and outlines points to be considered before selecting. (CK)

Reports on an experiment in which ninth-graders took over the teaching of a Spanish class for several days. (CK)

It is argued that a course dealing with Italian phonetics should be a part of the Italian teacher's preparation. An outline for such a course is proposed. A bibliography for such a course is appended. (AM)

Presents findings of an evaluation of an English-French bilingual education program using partial instruction in the second language in St. Thomas, Ontario. The evaluation covers grades 1-3. The program operates in unilingual English environment. (RM)

This essay presents a model for an intensive course in French designed for pupils of approximately age 16. The student devotes himself for two periods of 14 days each, morning and afternoon, exclusively to learning the foreign language. Each intensive phase is followed by half a school year of a language training phase. (Text is in German.)…