This article discusses the role of phonetics in second language teaching, and stresses the importance of considering the whole speech event in adapting phonetics to instruction. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

The Silent Way emphasizes knowing the student and supporting the development of his self-awareness as a learner. Silence serves two purposes. The student learns to sharpen his listening skills because the instructor gives the model once. Silence eliminates interference so that short-term memory of an utterance is not destroyed. (CFM)

Foreign language study is important not only as a tool or a requisite for a job, but as mental discipline, to shape minds and exercise the intellect for all types of academic and career endeavors. (CHK)

Describes an investigation in which achievement and lack of achievement was tested in students of English in two Hauptschulen ("terminal" junior high schools). The aim was to show how students can be grouped objectively with a view to giving them differentiated instruction. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Discrimination among errors is based on the degree of hindrance to understanding. The importance of error correction is emphasized, as is promptness in correction, with many students participating. Various possibilities for correction by students and teacher are presented. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Deals with problems encountered by English learners of French in learning to use nouns, articles and the present tense, and in using them together. A way to revise the presentation of the French noun-article system and to make the identification of nouns and articles easier is presented. (CLK)

This paper defines the regularities which obtain in the orthographic representation of Russian morphemes and comments on their pedagogical value. (CHK)

An intensive Russian language program emphasized listening comprehension before developing reading and speaking skills. Task performance verified comprehension in early stages. Program results included minimizing task overloading, increased student motivation. (CHK)

This annotated bibliography lists dictionaries and reading materials including stories and legends, biographies, works relating to cinema, theatre and French civilization, magazines, and educational activities and games for introductory instruction of French as a foreign language to adults and adolescents. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

The French language competence of two groups of English-speaking pupils who are educated via French was investigated. Third and fifth grade English-speaking pupils were compared with French-speaking children of the same age. Results of the study are discussed. (Author/RM)

A theoretical discussion of analogy formation and differentiation in language learning, followed by teaching hints on the German nominative case, stressing progressively increasing difficulty in the "analogical" and "differentiating" exercises. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

A remedial approach involving review, contrast, and re-review for remedying second language learners' errors is suggested. (RM)

Critizes pure audiolingual methodology in the teaching of Russian, offering alternatives of a more traditional nature. It is felt, in particular, that there is a place for limited use of the students' native language for explanatory purposes and linguistic analysis. (Text is in Russian.) (DH)

Individualized instruction, as distinguished from self-pacing, is defined as providing a different instructional system for each individual. Necessary steps leading to this goal are outlined. (RM)

Different bases for an underlying strategy for the teaching of languages are discussed. (Available from Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland) (RM)