The Slavonic Studies Seminar is held for one month each summer at Kliment Okhridski University in Sofia, Bulgaria. The program consists of three weeks of Bulgarian language instruction and a one-week trip around Bulgaria through interesting medieval towns, monasteries, and coastal resorts. The participants are primarily college teachers,…

A number of errors which typify the English speech or writing of Egyptian students of EFL (English as a foreign language) were identified. A series of matched sentences -- some containing a deviant feature, others not -- were recorded by a native speaker of English and by a native speaker of Arabic. Groups of intermediate and of advanced EFL…

This study asserts that international university students need a reading program which stresses (1) the student's understanding of and adaptation to the political, social, and economic forces of the United States and (2) the development of communication skills in standard American English. In developing a program of competency-based instruction…

This is a presentation of the results of a factor analysis of a battery of tests intended to measure listening and reading comprehension in English as a second language. The analysis sought to answer the following questions: (1) whether the factor analysis method yields results when applied to tests which are not specifically designed for this…

In July of 1971 and of 1972, meetings were held, in York and Nancy, respectively, organized by the University of York's Language Teaching Centre and by the Centre de Recherches et d'Applications Pedagogiques en Langues. These meetings were attended by 80 British teachers of French and 80 French teachers of English at the secondary level. The…

This resource guide for teachers of Italian and their students provides the following: (1) a list of awards and scholarships available to students of Italian and/or Italian American students, and the institutions through which the awards and scholarships are available; (2) a list of the sources for 16mm films available both at no cost and for a…

The Council of Europe is based on the principle that each member state is responsible for its use of foreign labour and for determining the number and nature of such workers to meet the needs of its own economy. Therefore, the Council has never assumed the task of organising the free movement of manpower nor of encouraging movements of workers in…

The number of migrant workers Turkey has sent to foreign countries has now reached approximately 1 million. Educational level of these workers is: 67 percent - primary school education; 24 percent - secondary school education; and 9 percent - high school education. However, 98 percent of these workers do not know the language of the country to…

This paper is a statement, from the viewpoint of a language teaching specialist, of the contributions language learning theory could make to language planning. It consists of three parts: (1) a conceptual framework of language planning used to identify ways in which a linguist might contribute; (2) a summary of basic concepts of language learning…

The 23 papers in this volume are classified into the following seven areas: (1) the profession, (2) the teacher, (3) the learner, (4) programs, (5) the organization of materials, (6) testing, and (7) the classroom. The papers appear here just as they were prepared for presentation at the 1974 TESOL Convention. The three papers in part 1 look at…

This is a self-teaching textbook for learning Telugu, designed to be used with a language guide or a native speaker of Telugu. The emphasis is placed on speaking rather than on reading or writing. The book opens with a phonetic preface, to introduce the student to the sounds of Telugu. The textbook itself consists of thirty lessons, each divided…

This selective bibliography lists 13 books and 53 journal articles dealing with Spanish-English contrastive studies. The entries range in date from 1935 to 1972 with the majority published since 1965. Most of the books cited were published in Great Britain or the United States and the articles appeared in well-known pedagogical language journals…

The initial chapter of this volume is concerned with determining the variables involved in language learning. The procedures and results of experiments conducted in order to formulate learning and teaching principles are described. Experiments include testing different approaches used to help students acquire sentence meaning, discovering the most…

This article discusses universal advantages and disadvantages of various audio systems which may be used for language learning. In order to encourage teachers and administrators to experiment with simpler systems than the conventional language laboratory, a list of several low-cost alternatives is given. The list gives the producer's name, a…

This bibliography cites theses pertaining to the teaching of English in India and covering a variety of topics, ranging from instructional materials and curriculum planning to specific teaching problems. The entries constitute work done for British and Indian colleges and universities, and most were completed since 1965. (CLK)