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Peace Corps, Niger (Nigeria). – 1987
Teachers' instructional notes for a Hausa course designed for Peace Corps volunteer language and cultural training contains lesson translations, questions for classroom use in several tenses, stories, readings, and summaries, lists of idioms and verbs, pattern drills, and notes on classroom technique. The information is intended to accompany a set…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Conversational Language Courses, Course Content, Foreign Countries
Weber, Wilhelm K. – 1984
An examination of translation and conference interpretation as well-established academic professions focuses on how they should be taught in order to maintain the integrity of the two professions and the highest standards in their exercise. An introductory section answers the question, "Can translation and interpretation be taught?,"…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Career Ladders, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development
Newson, Dennis – 1988
West Germany's university system requires that translation be taught as part of the English second language curriculum. One faculty member feels that using translation as a teaching and testing tool has these disadvantages. Translation (1) encourages thinking in one language and transferring to another, with accompanying interference; (2) deprives…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Objectives, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language)
Momeni, Mahvash K. – 1985
This study analyzes the sociocultural factors that affect translations of the Dewey Decimal Classification system (DDC) from English into four other languages, i.e., Arabic, Farsi, Hindi, and Turkish. The study was performed in three stages: each entry in each translation was compared with the edition of DDC on which it was based; each class of…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
Bert, Paul – J.B. Lippincott Company, 1887
This textbook is an elementary natural science book. It was translated from French. Changes and additions were necessary to Americanize the book, and adapt it to the requirements of public and private schools as well as to home instruction in the United States. The Natural History section has been slightly enlarged by the introduction of several…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Elementary School Students, Science Instruction, French
Schiller, Andrew – Grade Teacher, 1969
Part of the Grade Teacher Special report, "Linguistics and the Language Arts.
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Grammar Translation Method, Interviews, Language Arts
1967
THE PAPERS IN THIS VOLUME--CATEGORIZED AS EITHER (1) AUTOMATIC ANALYSES OF NATURAL LANGUAGES, (2) STATISTIC AND SEMANTIC ANALYSES OF LINGUISTIC DATA, OR (3) ALGEBRAIC THEORIES OF LANGUAGES--ARE THE COLLECTIVE PRODUCT OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS HELD AT GRENOBLE, FRANCE, AUGUST 23-25, 1967. TOPICS RANGE FROM…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Chinese, Computational Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics
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MYERS, M. KEITH – 1962
AN AUDIOLINGUAL, SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE IN RUSSIAN, AS DESCRIBED HERE, CAN SERVE TO COORDINATE THE COMPLEX INTERACTION BETWEEN STUDENT, TEACHER, AND WORKBOOK. THE USE OF A PROGRAMED WORKBOOK AND TAPED MATERIALS IS DISCUSSED IN PART I, GIVING CONSIDERATION TO SUCH FACTORS AS COURSE PROCEDURES, CONVERSATION TAPES, PRONUNCIATION, AND READING. THE…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Language Research, Pretesting, Pretests Posttests
GLADNEY, FRANK Y. – 1966
TRADITIONALLY OR OTHERWISE NONLINGUISTICALLY ORIENTED LANGUAGE TEACHERS WILL FIND IN THE NEW GENERATIVE-TRANSFORMATION GRAMMAR A REFUTATION OF MANY OF THE CURRENTLY ACCEPTED LINGUISTIC (SPECIFICALLY STRUCTURALIST) TEACHINGS AND A CONFIRMATION OF SOME TRADITIONAL IDEAS ABOUT LANGUAGE LEARNING. FOR INSTANCE, THE TRADITIONAL SPELLING OF ENGLISH (ALSO…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Audiolingual Skills, Language Instruction, Learning Theories
Barker, Muhammad Abd-Al-Rahman; And Others – 1977
This is the second of three volumes intended to be used as pedagogical materials in advanced Urdu courses at Western colleges and universities. An optional set of tape recordings and an optional set of 35mm slides accompany the three-volume work. Volume II includes the translation and commentaries (where needed) of all the verses presented in the…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction
Barker, Muhammad Abd-Al-Rahman; And Others – 1977
This is the first of three volumes intended to be used as pedagogical materials in advanced Urdu courses at Western colleges and universities. An optional set of tape recordings and an optional set of 35mm slides accompany the three-volume work. Volume I contains the Urdu texts of the selections, plus a section of exercises. The work of 34 poets…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction
JONAS, RONALD W. – 1967
THIS PAPER IS THE FIRST IN A SERIES PRESENTING THE FEATURES OF SYSTEMS DESIGNED FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS AT THE LINGUISTICS RESEARCH CENTER (LRC) OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN. ONGOING RESEARCH IS EXPANDING THE APPLICATION OF THESE SYSTEMS TO INCLUDE NOT ONLY NATURAL LANGUAGE BUT PROGRAMING LANGUAGES AS WELL. THIS PAPER DISCUSSES…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Context Free Grammar, Deep Structure, Information Retrieval
Defense Language Inst., Washington, DC. – 1962
The materials presented in this intermediate-advanced refresher course in Korean are intended for those who have already had considerable intensive training in spoken and written Korean. Lessons 1-70 (the first seven weeks of the course) aim to "maintain and develop habitual responses in the use of words and sentences dealing with high…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Cultural Context, Grammar, Instructional Materials
Defense Language Inst., Washington, DC. – 1964
These five volumes, comprising 65 lesson units, follow the Defense Language Institute audiolingual approach and general format. New materials, introduced in "basic dialogs," are followed by colloquial and literal translations, word lists, and in later lessons, by a variety of drills and reading exercises. A consonant chart and a…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Burmese, Burmese Culture, Instructional Materials
Kellogg, Charles H. – 1968
The use of a system for on-line conversation in ordinary English grammatical patterns is illustrated by a number of examples showing how data bases of diverse content and structure may be described, interrogated, and modified. It is suggested that a system composed of a user extendable subset of English, a natural language compiler to translate…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, Data Processing
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