The objectives of Ukrainian language study are to: (1) understand a native speaker speaking normally on a subject within the pupils' experience, (2) speak sufficiently well to make contact with a native, (3) read with understanding on a subject within the pupils' experience, and (4) write with relative ease on contemporary topics. Along with…

Human development tasks have become an integral part of many humanistic curriculum models. When such activities are employed in the foreign language classroom, several prominent factors can be indentified: on a psychological (affective) level, integrative and transactional motivation; on a linguistic (cognitive/affective) level, active listening…

The experimental test measures the ability of a subject to reconstruct obscured words by means of sentence analysis, carried out not as a separate academic task, but in the normal procedure of understanding what the sentence says. It is a task built on the assumption that the ability to handle reduced redundancy is a valid measure of linguistic…

This bibliography, the first one to be generated by the computer system of the Linguistics Documentation Centre, lists books and articles through 1972. Entries are not annotated, but additional descriptors are noted for many publications. Many entries are recorded as being abstracted and indexed in the ERIC system, and for these ERIC reference…

This is the third in a four-volume experimental series of instructional materials on English for Vietnamese speakers. The structure of this volume follows that of Volume II - Grammar, and provides additional pattern practice for the grammar points as they are treated in that volume. A booklet containing eleven charts designed for vocabulary and…

This article, in the form of an interview, deals with the status and expected future of foreign language programs in the nations schools and colleges, and in particular, Virginia's. Despite hearsay, enrollment in foreign language has remained fairly constant in Virginia high schools. French and Spanish have the highest enrollments, followed by…

The data for the study were gathered in the course of a larger sociolinguistic survey carried out among francophones from Welland and Sudbury, Ontario. Among other things, the acquisition of spoken English by bilingual francophone students from these cities was studied in depth, using error analysis. The present study attempts to show that in a…

The purpose of the American Samoa program, Upgrading Language Abilities (ULA) funded under Title I Elementary Secondary Education Act, is to raise the English language proficiency of educationally deprived high school students to the point where they can successfully compete with native speakers in an English medium educational system unhindered…

This report discusses the background of a program funded under Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I, initiated in 1970 to upgrade language abilities (ULA) of secondary students in American Samoa, contains a description of its many components, summarizes activities and accomplishments for fiscal year 1973 displays feedback and evaluation data…

This paper describes results of a questionnaire administered to over 700 students registered in lower-division Spanish courses in November 1973 at the University of Texas at Austin. The purpose of the questionnaire was to survey student attitudes and to move toward a means of evaluating beginning and intermediate level courses. On the basis of the…

This is a first-year text of Portuguese grammar based on the Portuguese of moderately educated Brazilians from the area around Rio de Janeiro. Spoken idiomatic usage is emphasized. An important innovation is found in the presentation of verb tenses; they are presented in the order in which the native speaker learns them. The text is intended to…

This book, written by and for a foreign language teacher, is intended as an informative and practical guide to the use of performance objectives in the foreign language classroom. A rationale for performance objectives is presented, followed by a discussion of purposes, resources, and activities involved. Attention is given to the selection of…

Teaching pronunciation is more like gymnastics than linguistics because it involves converting a series of mental processes into motor activity. Many variables contribute to the facility with which a student will learn pronunciation, but age causes the greatest variation in standards of pronunciation learning between individuals. Though increased…

The workbook for the fourth level of the "Learning English as a Second Language" series follows the basic principle employed in the first three levels of the series: in learning a second language there must be emphasis on hearing, imitation, and practice, then on reading and writing. The workbook, entirely in English, is written for children in…

This basic textbook of Kashmiri, the language of Srinagar, India, was designed for use in the classroom or in a self-instructional course and consists of two volumes. Volume 1 is divided into the following sections: (1) a brief sociolinguistic profile of Kashmiri, (2) phonology, (3) conversations (lessons 1-31), (4) advanced grammar, (5) review…