An enthusiastic Latin teacher responded to the challenge of falling class enrollment and inspired increased numbers of students to study the language and its literature. (CK)

Factors contributing to the renaissance of Italian and the goals of students who study the language are discussed. Alternatives to rote learning in the classroom and ways to generate interest in Italian in the community are suggested. (SW)

Shortened version of a paper presented on June 25, 1971, at the American Classical League Institute, Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio. (DS)

Covers secondary school Latin enrollments in Ohio from 1957 to 1966 as being typical nationally. Suggests ways to stimulate an interest in Latin classes. (DS)

Paper based on a position statement discussed at the forum on The Criticism of Teaching in Foreign Language and Literature'' at the 1971 meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, November 6, Detroit, Michigan. (DS)

A course involving the production of a play in French is described as an illustration of a method of making the study of foreign literatures more attractive to college undergraduates. (Author/RM)

Modified version of a paper read at the Fall Meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, October 31, 1969, Syracuse, New York. DS)

Speech delivered at the New Jersey Foreign Language Teachers Association Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, November 6, 1970. (DS)

Discusses reactions of foreign language departments with declining enrollments and hence less funds and the impulse to shift a focus on the means and purpose of instruction. Suggests that it is important to preserve face-to-face direct coaching in language learning and to expose students to the Western European heritage that shapes the experience…

A report is presented of work in syllabus construction and language planning in Finland from the middle of the 1960s to the present. An introductory chapter describes Finland's parallel educational systems, which provide for speakers of the two official languages, Finnish and Swedish, and for instruction in the other national language as well as…

Noting that foreign language requirements have been abolished, reduced, or modified between 1966 and 1971 in over 45 percent of the B.A. degree-granting institutions in the United States, the author probes into the current status and uses of the language laboratory. It is suggested that the widespread decline in language enrollments is due in…

Address given to students at Althouse College of Education, London, Ontario; discusses Canadian reaction to the "imported" audiolingual method and future directions of language instruction in Canada. (RL)