This book, designed as a combined teacher's manual and text, presents 20 lessons in Maniyaka (Mandingo), a language spoken in Liberia. It represents about 300 hours of study and is the equivalent of a first year college language course. Each lesson is divided into three sections: texts, grammar exercises and cultural information, and suggestions…

This volume consists of 25 lessons of text material, to be used with 50 cassette tapes approximately 20 minutes long each. The instructional material for a typical unit is organized as follows: Interrogation, Military Terminology Drill, and Comprehension Test. Each unit revolves around a basic cultural theme, such as the family, childhood, and…

This handbook presents samples of the Kabiye language in various contexts, such as folk tales, newspaper articles, personal histories, articles on Kabiye history and culture, and a selection of Togolese government literacy texts. Much of the material is presented in a facing-page bilingual format, with a translation in either English or French. In…

This handbook presents samples of the Soninke language of West Africa in various contexts, such as folk tales, newspaper articles, personal histories, articles on history and culture, and articles on activities likely to be undertaken by Peace Corps volunteers. Much of the material is presented in a facing-page bilingual format, with a translation…

This dictionary contains lists of nouns in the Deg Xinag or Ingalik language as spoken in the Yukon River villages of Anvik, Shageluk, and Holy Cross, and the Kuskokwim River village of Stony River. After a presentation of the Ingalik alphabet, the nouns, with English equivalents, are listed according to the following categories: mammals; fish;…

The main purpose of this dictionary is to provide a corpus of basic words and phrases in standard Khmer useful for Western students of Khmer. The dictionary contains 40,000 English entries and subentries. Subentries were chosen to reflect not only the semantic structure of English, but also the semantic structure and content of Khmer. The second…

This 15-unit guide to the use of a Mandarin Chinese dictionary explains the order of the Chinese characters in the dictionary and presents practice drills in using the dictionary. Chinese characters are usually arranged in the dictionary by their radicals. Sixty of the most common radicals are introduced in the first ten lessons. Lesson 11 is a…

THE 21 WORKING PAPERS IN THIS BOOK WERE PREPARED BY AMERICAN SCHOLARS IN THE FIELD OF SOUTH ASIAN AREA AND LANGUAGE STUDIES FOR A CONFERENCE CONVENED BY THE COMMITTEE ON SOUTH ASIA OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES IN 1961. THE CONFERENCE DEALT WITH THE NEED FOR RESEARCH ON SPECIFIC COUNTRIES AND IN SPECIFIC DISCIPLINES AS WELL AS THE PRESENT…

This study describes and assesses the state of bilingual curriculum development activities in the National Network of Centers for Bilingual Education. Recommendations are made for improvement in the creation, production, and distribution of bilingual instructional materials. The overall approach to the study was tripartite and focused on: (1) the…

This bibliography is a selected listing of approximately 775 books, monographs, journal articles, collections, bibliographies, and unpublished papers on linguistics and the uncommonly taught languages. It includes 119 documents entered by th e ERIC Clearinghouse for Linguistics in the ERIC system in 1967 as well as items which have appeared since…

This is a highly illustrated elementary reader written in Inupiaq. Also listed are the numbers from 1 through 10, with their names in Inupiaq. (CLK)

This is the tenth report in the Language Research In Progress (LRIP) series, superceding reports 1-9. LRIP 10 lists 469 language-related research projects in progress between November 1969 and June 1970 for which documentation is available. The report is indexed by topic, principal investigator, and location of the project in the United States or…

Palauan is a relatively undescribed Austronesian language. This dissertation is an attempt to provide an account of the affixes which Palauan verbs can take, since there are complexities associated with almost every affix, with regard to both its phonological form and its syntactic and semantic function. In order to generalize about the verb…

This volume presents a compilation and translation of folktales and other forms of oral literature in the Kupia, Kotia Oriya, and Parengi Languages of India. Kupia and Kotia Oriya are Indo-Aryan languages, while Parengi is a Munda language. Language family differences are particularly obvious in the vocabulary and syntax of the different groups of…

Contracts awarded during the 13 fiscal years of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 in the Language and Area Development Program are listed in this bibliography. The program, authorized to support research, studies, surveys, and the preparation of specialized materials to strengthen instruction in modern foreign languages, awarded 618…