A two-year master's degree program in international business studies was initiated by the College of Business Administration at the University of South Carolina to educate the business manager who will deal with foreign countries. The language component comprises an important part of the program. (SW)

A digest of the reports, lectures and discussions at a colleges association conference. The program addressed concrete, pressing concerns, such as initiating student exchange in class, intensive language courses, problems posed by literature classes, the role of foreign languages in the curriculum and the outcomes of foreign language study. (AMH)

A program of the University of the Pacific established a cluster college to integrate a non-Western perspective into the curriculum of a liberal arts education. Study in India, Japan or Taiwan includes intensive language courses and working internships. (CHK)

A detailed description of an intensive training course for teachers of English in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. (PMP)

Volume I of the Korean Basic Course provides introductory materials for the student who wishes to achieve a working command of the language currently spoken by an estimated 40 to 43 million people on the Korean Peninsula and in Japan, Manchuria, and the Soviet Union. The linguistic content is based on the speech of educated Koreans in Seoul, the…

This audiolingual course in Indonesian consists of 102 lesson units; Volumes I-XI. (Volume I is in two separately bound sections.) The lessons are designed to train beginning students to Level 3 proficiency in comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing Indonesian. (This scale rates native speakers on Level 5.) Units consist of perception drills…

This catelog provides an up-to-date listing of foreign language training texts, tapes and transparencies available from the Defense Language Institute for all U.S. Department of Defense components engaged in elementary, maintenance or refresher language training programs. Courses described are designed for use in an intensive program with a…

The expanded foreign study and foreign language programs offered at Dartmouth are examined with emphasis on the influence of Peace Corps language programs during the last half-dozen years on American college campuses. The impact of the programs at Dartmouth since 1964 is discussed in terms of: (1) a brief history of language instruction at…

Description begins with remarks concerning the Institute of Far Eastern Languages, established in 1946, and the early efforts made in intensive language study in the Chinese Language School. The article describes the unique audiovisual materials and techniques used in the schools. Included in the description are: (1) dictation equipment, (2)…

A study was conducted to determine how effective was the Communications Program in providing special assistance to students who were experiencing serious difficulty with the English language. Forty-eight students were used in the experimental group at Britannia Secondary School and a further twenty-six students from Templeton Secondary School…

This audiolingual course has been designed to assist United States government representatives who require a command of spoken German. The course is intended to prepare a solid foundation for comprehensive language skills, providing systematically for the development of reading proficiency based on oral-aural skills. Each of the units in this…

This volume, one of a series in a Russian course designed to train native English-language speakers to a level 3 proficiency in reading and writing Russian, contains materials on the following topics: (1) forms and constructions, (2) basic reading texts, (3) grammar with written exercises, (4) oral exercises, (5) reading and translation exercises,…

This workbook contains supplementary exercises for the "Thai Basic Course" developed by the Defense Language Institute. The exercises for lessons 1-60 each consist of 10 sentences for translation into English and 10 sentences for translation into Thai. Those for lessons 61-80 deal with the written style of Thai and consist of two paragraphs each…

Development of an intensive course in English which is offered to Dutch businessmen at the Netherland's School of Business is described in this article. The duration, scope, and level of the two-week conversational course are examined with particular emphasis on problems characteristic of this type of program. The author includes a sample program…

This volume, one of a series in a Russian course designed to train native English- language speakers to a level 3 proficiency in reading and writing Russian, contains materials on the following topics: (1) forms and constructions, (2) basic reading texts, (3) grammar with written exercises, (4) oral exercises, (5) reading and translation…