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Burgel, Ursula – Neueren Sprachen, 1972
See FL 502 554 for companion article. (RS)
Descriptors: Course Organization, Educational Experiments, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Download full textKern, Edith – Yale French Studies, 1959
Critical of the language instruction which students receive in elementary and secondary schools, the author examines the teaching potential of televised instruction. Foreign language instruction in the elementary school is noted to be particularly weak. Discussion of an experiment involving some 800 children in 4th and 5th grades suggests that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Instruction, Educational Experiments
Mans, Rolando – 1971
An experiment in the teaching of reading in Spanish to second- and third-grade students, conducted by the author at the Ethel Phillips elementary school, utilizes a modified version of Dr. Laubach's "syllabic, analytic-synthetic" method of language instruction. In this approach, vowels are combined in succession with each of the consonants to…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Elementary Education, FLES, Language Instruction
Jonas, Sister Ruth Adelaide – 1969
The main purpose of this experiment was to ascertain whether or not the attitudes, motives, and language proficiency of children engaged in a long sequence (5-10 years) of foreign language study vary significantly as a function of interpersonal contacts, through the exchange of illustrated cultural dialogues, with peer groups who speak the target…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Images
Jonas, Sister Ruth – 1972
This experiment examines a new psychological approach to foreign language study at the elementary school level. A principal objective is to determine the nature and importance of second language learning motivation in monolingual societies devoid of the daily living example of the target language and culture. A five-year French language sequence,…
Descriptors: African Culture, Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Instruction, Cross Cultural Studies
Jonas, Sister Ruth – 1972
This experiment examines a new psychological approach to foreign language study at the elementary school level. A principal objective is to determine the nature and importance of second language learning motivation in monolingual societies devoid of the daily living example of the target language and culture. A five-year French language sequence,…
Descriptors: African Culture, Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Instruction, Cross Cultural Studies
