The expositions are a concentration of the pedagogical conception which has been developed in Lower Saxony for the reform of Secondary Level 2 within Work Group A (linguistic-literary-artistic area of study). They must be examined and judged in close connection with the "Aids for Secondary Level 2" published by the Department of…

Describes the response of one Canadian community and its local school board to the challenge of producing functionally bilingual children within the context of the public school curriculum, grades K through 7. (CK)

Discusses early and late French immersion programs, their advantages and disadvantages, and considerations of staffing, cost, student motivation, effect on native language skills, and program effectiveness. (CK)

The Ottawa school system conducts French instruction in both immersion and "core" or regular programs. Special features are bilingual grades at the higher level and a bilingual high school. French Immersion programs are evaluated in terms of expense and educational effect. (CK)

The experience of a British Columbia bilingual education program is outlined, with information about number of pupils, program objectives, staffing, teaching materials and cost. The program teaches French in a primarily English-speaking area. (CK)

THRICE is an acronym for a set of rules and exercises for foreigners learning correct English pronunciation. The THRICE technique was developed for non-native speakers who have a good knowledge of English but whose pronunciation is poor; the student is taught appropriate speech delivery through self-conditioning techniques. (CK)

Topics are: aspects in the systematic acquisition of firm, lasting and ready-to-use knowledge and skill as a basis of instruction; nature of language knowledge; the dialectic of knowledge acquisition and the development of skill; intensive learning; and the design of vocabulary drill units. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Discusses problems of language teaching on HND business study courses, and suggests the case study teaching method. An example of a case study is given. (RM)

Grammar translation method, direct method, and Army and audiolingual methods used for teaching modern foreign languages in America are described. A method based on psycholinguistic research and the theory of generative grammar is described, and its implications in teaching Mandarin Chinese are discussed. (RM)

A method of teaching question formation in the Chinese language by use of transformational grammar is described. (RM)

Assesses the status of English as a second language teaching in Canada. Focuses on a broad discussion of four areas; programs, cultural adjustment, research and experimentation, and professionalism. (PMP)

Describes a college Spanish program consisting of a ten-week, intensive language course on campus and a ten-week, cultural immersion program in Mexico. (KM)

Describes pilot classes in culture-oriented French and Spanish instruction conducted over a two-year period. (KM)

This article discusses the use of the image in audiovisual structural exercises, on the lexical and on the grammatical level. (Text is in French.) (AM)