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Aims, Testing and Examining in Modern Language Teaching.

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Hjelmstrom, Svante – Contact, 1968

Negative influences on teaching practices and objectives in modern language programs, caused by certain final examination practices in Sweden, are pointed out and criticized in this paper. The needs of the Swedish student of languages are determined to be related to the use of language primarily as a means of everyday communication. The…

Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Basic Skills, Course Objectives, Curriculum Design

Foreign Language Guidelines.

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Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia.

Guidelines intended to aid in the improvement of foreign language instruction are directed toward the development of a relevant and contemporary language program. Six major chapters discuss: (1) the place of foreign languages in the modern curriculum, (2) the program in operation, (3) treatment of skills and cultural concepts of contemporary…

Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Audiolingual Methods, Basic Skills, Course Content

The Communicative Approach to Language Teaching in the Framework of a Programme of English for Academic Purposes. L'Enseignement de la competence de communication en langues secondes. (The Teaching of Communicative Competence in Second Languages). Acts of the Colloquium of the Swiss Interuniversity Commission for Applied Linguistics. CILA Bulletin.

Johns, T. F. – 1976

The materials described here are used to teach English for special purposes at the University of Birmingham. Using the communicative or functional approach to language teaching, they deal with a "common core" of skills, leaving for later in the program special sub-units relating these skills to texts, tasks and problems peculiar to a particular…

Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)