This guide to listening comprehension emphasizes improvement of English vocabulary skills for speakers of Korean. Narrative portions of the text are in Korean. Each unit provides vocabulary lists and discussion questions to accompany a videotape lecture. Each lecture, in turn, demonstrates some aspect of autobody repair. Units include…

This guide to spoken usage with exercises is designed to enrich the English vocabulary of speakers of Vietnamese. Narrative portions of the text are in Vietnamese. Emphasis is on survival skills and automobile repair skills. Chapters include "Time,""Getting to Know You,""Eating Out,""Opening a Savings…

This guide to listening comprehension emphasizes improvement of English vocabulary skills for speakers of Vietnamese. Narrative portions of the text are in Vietnamese. Each unit provides vocabulary lists and discussion questions to accompany a videotape lecture. Each lecture, in turn, demonstrates some aspect of autobody repair. Units include…

THIS MANUAL IS DESIGNED AS TEACHING MATERIAL FOR THE STUDY OF YAKUT, A TURKIC LANGUAGE SPOKEN BY ABOUT 250,000 YAKUTS IN EASTERN SIBERIA (YAKUTIA). THE TEXT IS ALSO ARRANGED TO BE USED FOR SELF INSTRUCTION BY A STUDENT WITH SOME KNOWLEDGE OF ANOTHER TURKIC LANGUAGE. WHILE SUCH KNOWLEDGE IS NOT ESSENTIAL, A BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF LINGUISTICS IS…

The oral translation courses at the University of Northern Iowa are described and suggestions are given for applying the approach to other university language courses and to secondary school language courses. After the initial organizational periods, each eighty-minute class period consists of translating an interview that was recorded in the…

This third of ten volumes of audiolingual classroom instruction in Albanian for adult students treats Albanian grammar, syntax, and usage in a series of exercises consisting of grammar perception drills, grammar analysis, translation exercises, readings, question-and-answer exercises, and dialogues illustrating specific grammatical features. A…

This fourth of ten volumes of audiolingual classroom instruction in Albanian for adult students treats Albanian grammar, syntax, and usage in a series of exercises consisting of grammar perception drills, grammar analysis, translation exercises, readings, question-and-answer exercises, and dialogues illustrating specific grammatical features. A…

This fifth of ten volumes of audiolingual classroom instruction in Albanian for adult students treats Albanian grammar, syntax, and usage in a series of exercises consisting of grammar perception drills, grammar analysis, translation exercises, readings, question-and-answer exercises, and dialogues illustrating specific grammatical features. A…

The second version of the Multistore Sentence Analysis System, implemented on an IBM 360/65, uses a correlational grammar to parse English sentences and displays the parsings as hierarchical syntactic structures comparable to tree diagrams. Since correlational syntax comprises much that is usually considered semantic information, the system…

The Northeast Academic Science Information Center (NASIC) was developed to promote the increased and more effective use of machine-readable bibliographic information resources to support the information needs of the academic research community of the Northeast. NASIC was involved with the continued testing and evaluation of available…

Elicited imitation occurs in an experimental situation during which subjects are requested to repeat a model sentence constructed so as to include specific desired grammatical structures. Elicited translation involves giving subjects a sentence in one language, and asking them to say the same thing, but in another language; elicited translation…

This article attempts to identify the nature and the magnitude of Indiana commercial needs for foreign languages, and to determine how companies have coped thus far with such needs. These features are reflected in six tables, showing use of foreign languages, distribution of foreign language use by form and type, nature of international…

This paper suggests that new approaches are needed in the study of language standardization. One such approach is the consideration of standardization in terms of processes, i.e., in terms of series of related events, rather than as a group of unrelated discrete happenings. Borrowing is one recurring feature in language standardization, and in…

This paper concerns the practice of adopting literature in translation courses and civilization courses taught in English as a way of increasing foreign language enrollments at the undergraduate level. The need for cooperation between English and foreign language departments in coordinating courses is stressed, and several course titles are…

In order to effect the unambiguous identification of particular members of sets of homonyms--homophones or homographs as the case might be--during the automated conversation of written language to spoken language and/or vice versa, additional linguistic information must become available regarding the primary thought-to-physical-manifestation…