Teaching pitch patterns of English as part of one of the elements of intonation has considerably been undervalued in Turkish teacher education contexts despite its significance in communication (Roach, 2001; Scherer, 2003; Maastricht et al., 2016) hence less research was conducted on this subject (Wennerstrom, 2001; Pickering, 2002; Demirezen,…

A DISCUSSION OF THE LINGUISTIC AND PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE OF HAUSA (A LANGUAGE OF WEST AFRICA) ACCOMPANIES A TEXT WHICH CONSISTS OF BASIC SENTENCES, NOTES, AND GRAMMATICAL DRILLS. THE BASIC SENTENCES ARE DIALOGS TO BE MEMORIZED, AND THEIR ENGLISH RENDERINGS ARE MEANT TO BE SITUATIONAL EQUIVALENTS, NOT LITERAL TRANSLATIONS. THE NOTES EXPLAIN…

Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Teachers of Japanese held in November 1971 in Chicago, Illinois. (DS)

THIS PUBLICATION COMPRISES VOLUME 1 OF A TWO-VOLUME INTRODUCTORY COURSE IN THE HUNGARIAN LANGUAGE. THE COURSE IS DESIGNED TO BE USED WITH TAPE RECORDINGS. THOUGH EMPHASIS IS PLACED ON GIVING THE STUDENT SPOKEN COMMAND OF THE LANGUAGE, BOTH THE VOCABULARY AND THE STRUCTURE NECESSARY FOR IMMEDIATE USE OF WRITTEN MATERIALS ARE INCLUDED. EACH LESSON…

THIS STUDENT'S HANDBOOK IS FOR LANGUAGE LABORATORY INSTRUCTION IN MANDARIN CHINESE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS. THE MATERIAL CONSTITUTES THE FIRST LEVEL OF A 4-YEAR SEQUENCE TO BE USED BY NINTH-GRADE STUDENTS. FIFTEEN UNITS ARE PLANNED FOR TWO SEMESTERS' INSTRUCTION. THIS TEXT CONSISTS OF (1) A BRIEF ENGLISH EXPLANATION OF THE SITUATION, (2) A CUE SHEET,…

Suggests, with examples, these types of drill to induce response in Russian to statements in the mother tongue: (1) substitution, (2) transformation, (3) substitution requiring simultaneous transformation, (4) complementing, and (5) extending. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

A HANDBOOK OF ENGLISH SEQUENTIAL PATTERN DRILLS FOR TEACHING ENGLISH GRAMMAR TO SPANISH SPEAKING STUDENTS IS PRESENTED. EACH SECTION CONTAINS TEACHERS' NOTES, STUDENTS' LISTS, AND WORKSHEETS. THE FOUR MAJOR FORM-CLASSES OF WORDS ARE STUDIED--THE NOUN, THE ADJECTIVE, THE VERB, AND THE ADVERB. DRILLS ARE USED TO TEACH WHEN THEY OCCUR, THEIR SIGNAL…

TRADITIONALISTS FREQUENTLY MAINTAIN THAT AUDIOLINGUAL TECHNIQUES, IN THEIR DEEMPHASIS OF GRAMMATICAL THEORY, TEND TO BE SUPERFICIAL AND UNSCHOLARLY. ADVOCATES OF THE NEWER METHODOLOGIES COUNTER BY INSISTING UPON THE NECESSITY OF WELL-CONSTRUCTED DRILL MATERIAL IN ABUNDANCE AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL. THE DIFFERENCE IN THE APPROACHES DERIVES FROM TWO…

Paper prepared under contract with the English Language Branch--Defense Language Institute, Lackland Air Force Base, Lackland, Texas, and delivered in 1971 to staff members of the Branch. (VM)

Summarizes the most basic rules for indirect speech in English but claims that they are useless if taught strictly as rules; also insists on the necessity for contextualization in drills on indirect speech. (FB)