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 the elaboration, over a period of three years, of a French language and civilization program consisting of linguistic and cultural preparation in England, followed by a one-week intensive linguistic and cultural experience in France. (AM)

This volume provides the prescribed cultural background that is part of the final phase of the Basic Course in French. The texts provide the basis for discussions and personal research through which students become acquainted with various aspects of the French-speaking world and learn the referential meaning of words and expressions as they are…

A digest of the reports, lectures and discussions at a colleges association conference. The program addressed concrete, pressing concerns, such as initiating student exchange in class, intensive language courses, problems posed by literature classes, the role of foreign languages in the curriculum and the outcomes of foreign language study. (AMH)

This textbook, prepared by the Defense Language Institute, is designed to acquaint students of Czech with Slovak, a language closely related to Czech. The phonology and morphology of the two languages are briefly compared. Some of the most frequent lexical items differing from Czech are presented. Students are expected to acquire only a passive…

This course, designed by the Foreign Service Institute in 1957, was prepared to train officers of the Foreign Service and of the United States government agencies who are involved in foreign affairs and who need to learn to speak Spanish. The course is designed to be taught by a native speaker of Spanish. Normally, the class is limited to six…

This course, designed by the Foreign Service Institute in 1957, was prepared to train officers of the Foreign Service and of the United States government agencies who are involved in foreign affairs and who need to learn to speak Spanish. The course is designed to be taught by a native speaker of Spanish. Normally, the class is limited to six…

This third volume in a series of four was prepared as an intensive language course in Spanish for Foreign Service Officers and other United States government agencies involved in foreign affairs who need to learn to speak Spanish. Materials in this text include: basic sentences, drills and grammar, pattern drills, conversation stimulus, readings,…

This final volume in a series of four texts was prepared as an intensive language course in Spanish for Foreign Service Officers and other United States government agencies involved in foreign affairs who need to learn to speak Spanish. This volume differs from the first three primarily in that it is geared to advanced students whose…

Current publications do not cease to stress the unfortunate fact that language ernollments are declining; this paper is an exception to the prevailing pessimistic trend. Its aim is to describe the success of the first and second year German language courses taught at Middlebury College during the summer of 1975. This was an intensive program with…

This basic textbook for German contains 10 units. The text is adaptable for use in an academic institution (Completion time is expected to be one year.), in an intensive program (Completion time is about 90-120 hours.), or in independent study. The vocabulary is limited and only basic, essential, grammatical structures are included. Although…

This basic textbook for Italian contains 10 units. The text is adaptable for use in an academic institution (Completion time is expected to be one year.), in an intensive program (completion time is about 90-120 hours.), or in independent study. The vocabulary is limited and only basic, essential, grammatical structures are included. Although…

This basic textbook for Swiss German contains 10 units. The text is adaptable for use in an academic institution (anticipated completion time is one academic year), in an intensive program (completion time is 90-120 hours), or in independent study. The vocabulary is limited, and only basic and essential grammar is included. Although audiolingual…

This basic textbook for Norwegian contains 10 units. The text is adaptable for use in an academic institution, in an intensive program, or in independent study. The vocabulary is limited, and only basic and essential grammar is included. A brief introduction contains information on Norwegian linguistic history. Although audiolingual skills are…

The basic textbook for Czech contains 10 units. The text is adaptable for use in an academic institution (anticipated completion time is one year), in an intensive program (completion time is 90-120 hours), or in independent study. The vocabulary is limited, and only basic and essential grammar is included. Although audiolingual skills are…