Urges the continuation and expansion of Latin programs in the school curriculum and recommends Hans H. Oerberg's "Lingua Latina secundum Naturae rationem explicata," with which the student learns Latin through reading. (PM)

This issue consists of the following: a "minilexicon" of terms directly or indirectly related to the field of suggestion and learning; the translation of an article by T. Tachev entitled "Learning Foreign Languages by Suggestion: The Unsuspected Possibilities of Human Memory"; a review of the book "An Introduction to…

This issue of the information letter consists of two articles, "Music Therapy" and "Research and Applications of Psychomusical Techniques"; a review of the book, "La musicotherapie et les methods nouvelles d'association des techniques" by Guilhot and Cecourt, and a bibliography of books on music therapy written in…

This bilingual glossary is part of the Peace Corps Program and Training Journal Reprint Series, which is an attempt to provide technical support to Peace Corps volunteers and to share its material on "intermediate technology" with other participants in the international development community. The glossary consists of an English-Spanish…

This book is designed to help Peace Corps volunteers continue to learn a language in the absence of a trained teacher. It consists of techniques intended to help volunteers build upon their daily contact with native informants. Seventeen techniques are presented, each consisting of a subject, objectives, technique, and procedures. The material…

Shows that learning goals in language teaching today fall in the following "catalogs" and lists: 1) Situation catalog, 2) Topic catalog, 3) Speech-intention catalog, 4) Text-type catalog, 5) Vocabulary list, 6) Construction list, 7) List of laws of word-formation. These are found necessary for the exact formulation of course goals. (Text is in…

Using English airline advertisements, the article shows how, at Secondary Grade 2, such material can be used to encourage active communication by the students. Advertising material is found more productive than traditional text analysis. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Recommendations are made for a curriculum in first year language introductory courses in New South Wales high schools which would place greater emphasis on cultural understanding than on language itself. A sample course outline is given and suggestions for group and individual activity given. (RM)

The article defines the word-ordering problems that American students encounter while studying Russian, and underlines the necessity and feasibility of presenting basic concepts of word-order to beginning students. A specific method which stresses oral drill is outlined. Some results are discussed. (CLK)

The paper proposes to clarify the role of the learner's native language in the acquisition of new words in foreign language learning for adults. Specifically, the relative effectiveness of monolingual and bilingual glossaries is explored by means of experimentation, showing that bilingual glossaries yield superior results. Related research is…

Criticizes the tendency of language teachers to rely on the content and methods of the text and argues that teachers must themselves decide on the approaches appropriate to the objectives they have established. The audio-lingual method is examined critically, and the cognitive-code learning approach is briefly described. (KM)

This article outlines the background and the basic components of microteaching and describes it as a means of providing foreign language teaching trainees with an experience that will ease the transition from the laboratory situation to the actual teaching setting. Criticism of the method is included. (CLK)

Surveys the linguistic situation as well as the organization of foreign language instruction in the countries of Western Europe. Although linguistic diversity would serve rather than hinder mutual comprehension and cooperation, monolingualism is the usual tendency in most of the countries with the exception of Holland and Luxemburg. (Text is in…

Suggests a framework of criteria against which a teacher may evaluate the appropriateness of prospective foreign language teaching materials for his class. (Text is in German.) (DH)