At St. Claire School in Toronto, there is a new class in which students who have come recently from Italy speak and are taught in Italian; English is one of the other subjects taught and it too is taught with Italian as the language of instruction. (Authors/JA)

Revised version of a report presented at the conference on American study-abroad programs in Tokyo, Japan, March 1973. (DD)

Three reasons given by advocates of fingerspelled English or visible English (VE) that their method of communication is superior to total communication (TC) were investigated with an observational study of 11 teachers in two VE schools and 15 teachers in two TC schools. (Author/IM)

A study was conducted in conjunction with a year-long tryout of the SWRL English Language and Concepts Program for Spanish-Speaking children to determine the effects of periodic and seasonal absenteeism on student performance. Procedures were established for obtaining enroute criterion-referenced pupil performance and attendance data from eight…

Special issue devoted to foreign language instruction in adult education. (WB)

Surveys programs and techniques of language teaching in Europe both in industry and business and in the schools. (CK)

This bulletin is the first of three designed to give detailed help on fostering language competence in 4- to 6-year-old school children. The bulletin introduces the teacher to a group of prepositions and conjunctions (chosen from the Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary List of 220 Words) which are important to the meaning of sentences. The list was…

Reviews the development over the past ten years of a postgraduate course for translators and interpreters offered by the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bath in England. (CLK)

A description of a prototype computer assisted instruction system for teaching Russian. Although the course stresses the Russian morphological system, the construction of the computer program is applicable to other languages and language teaching specialties. (Author)

Details a program of intensive language learning at Kenston (Ohio) High School that begins with a two-and-one-half-hour-a-day class and ends with a three-week homestay abroad on school time. The approach involves using foreign language for communicating about matters relevant to the students combined with a no-grade, no-fail system. (Author/EJS)

A description of French Nights held in an Australian secondary school. These were educational experiences which enlisted the service and cooperation of other departments in the school, aroused and sustained the enthusiasm of the students and proved to be important in maintaining good public relations. (AMH)

Factors responsible for the inadequate preparation for college Russian courses of many high school trained students of Russian are identified, and remedies are suggested. Attention is given to common deficiencies in high school training, minimum requirements for advanced placement, placement tests, the need to establish a standard program, and…

Description of a French course whose objective was to teach students the four skills as effectively and agreeably as possible. Topics covered are: general description of the materials, students and facilities; teacher preparation; detailed lesson plan of an article from "Quoi de Neuf". (Text is in French.) (AMH)

This study focuses on the consequences of immersion experience as a means of developing second language skills. The students involved are 13 to 14 years of age, finishing grade 7 in the public school system. Two forms of immersion are compared, "early" and "late." Early immersion means that students had followed an immersion…

A bilingual program was implemented to meet the educational needs of Spanish American and Indian children with noted deficiencies in English and/or their native languages. The program components were an English Oral Language Program coupled with concept reinforcement in the vernacular for kindergarten children using non-standard English, along…