Compiled from a master list of about 300 journals and various book sources, this third annual selective bibliography published by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) lists 1,377 items concerned with pedagogy in modern foreign languages, Latin, Greek, English as a second language, and applied linguistics. The 1969…

The study employed geography as the substantive content to develop and evaluate instructional materials that reflect one theoretical approach to teaching the disadvantaged -- Ausubel's model of verbal reception learning using advance organizers. It was hypothesized that 5th and 6th grade pupils would learn more geography content by using textual…

The project described in this study was implemented in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Demonstration School District, Brooklyn, to train teachers and paraprofessionals (parents from the community) to work within their present structures, using the principles of behavior analysis as a means for teaching children to read, for controlling behavior…

An autonomous multimedia computer-assisted instruction (CAI) general-education physics course was developed and evaluated at Florida State University (FSU). Based on a one-term conventional lecture course which had been given successfully at FSU for several years, the CAI course made use of an IBM 1500 instructional system to guide the student…

A listing of speech pathology and audiology services in the United States, the guide includes the names of 910 clinics and of 216 members of the American Speech and Hearing Association who are engaged in full time private practice. Arranged geographically, by state and city, the guide specifies the following for each clinic: official name,…

Compiled from a master list of about 300 journals and various book sources, this second annual selective bibliography published by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages lists 1,316 items concerned with pedagogy in modern foreign languages, Latin, Greek, English as a second language, and applied linguistics. The 1968 listing…

Thirty-six problem areas relating to college foreign language instruction are identified in this paper. Most of these problems can be grouped in five major categories--(1) high school preparation and college entrance requirements and placement procedures, (2) faculty training, qualifications, and interests, (3) research needs and the lag between…

Appraised objectively in this article is a 3-year research project that involved experimentation with audiolingual methods in teaching standard English in Freshman English classes at Chaflin College in South Carolina to Negro students who spoke a nonstandard dialect. Prior to a discussion of the effectiveness of using spelling instruction to teach…

An experiment with 17 teachers of first-year high school French recruited from the staffs of three large, diversified San Jose, California school districts was designed to (1) observe closely the classroom behaviors of the participating teachers, (2) identify those successful in terms of pupil achievement, and (3) compare the behaviors and…

The Office of Education Cost Effectiveness model (OECE), developed in this project to be computer programed in a time-sharing computer language, enabled educators to compare proposals for compensatory education and to examine the long-range results of proposed and existing programs. It is based on two main hypotheses--bolstered by a number of…

The study reported here was carried on under a Curriculum Research Grant from the U.S. Office of Education to the University of Hawaii from November 1966 to June 1969. The Education Department of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands jointly sponsored the English curriculum research and development. Objectives were to evaluate the current…

Compiled from a master list of about 300 journals and various book sources, this sixth annual selective bibliography published by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL) lists 3,632 items concerned with pedagogy in modern foreign languages, Latin, Greek, English as a second language, and applied linguistics. The 1972…

This curriculum guide, developed for an ungraded language program at the secondary school level, allows for a steady progression of skills from unit to unit. Based on the audiolingual approach to language instruction, the guide is divided into four sections: (1) concepts to be taught, (2) references to instructional materials, (3) special…

The art and science of evaluating student learning is presented in detail to assist the classroom teacher in its application and the consequent improvement of both the teaching and learning processes. Part 1, in four sections (Education and Evaluation, Using Evaluation for Instructional Decisions, Evaluation Techniques for Cognitive and Affective…

Compiled from a master list of about 300 journals and various book sources, this fourth annual selective bibliography published by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) lists 1,734 items concerned with pedagogy in modern foreign languages, Latin, Greek, English as a second language, and applied linguistics. The 1970…