This selective bibliography lists one book and 14 journal articles dealing with Polish-English contrastive studies. The entries range in date from 1965 to 1974. The articles cited appeared in well-known Polish and American pedagogical language journals. (TL)

The paper presents a comprehensive summary of recent research on attitudes in foreign language instruction, discusses it in the light of four functions generally thought of as being characteristic of attitudes, and comments on the usefulness of the attitude concept in foreign language education. Research on attitudes is presented on several…

This research report is concerned with establishing a minimum vocabulary of English instruction for French students at the secondary level. The approach to the investigation is based on choosing vocabulary that corresponds to the current communication needs of the students, has functional content, and takes the spoken language into account. The…

Success or failure of a language laboratory is due to a complex set of reasons. An often neglected factor lies in teacher and student attitudes to learner-machine-materials interrelationships. This paper specifies significant factors affecting the establishment of positive attitudes in teachers and students through training. The paper has four…

This bibliography cites books and articles dealing with the teaching of English as a foreign language by radio and television. Entries include publications from a wide range of countries, and most have been published since 1960. (CLK)

This selective bibliography lists 2 books, or sections in books, and 6 journal articles dealing with Hebrew-English contrastive studies. The entries range in date from 1965 to 1974. The books cited are Israeli or European publications, and the articles appeared in well-known European or American pedagogical language journals. (TL)

This selective bibliography lists 8 books and articles dealing with Serbo-Croat-English contrastive studies and 2 articles on general Slavic studies. The entries range in date from 1963 to 1972. The books cited are European or American publications, and the articles appeared in well-known European or American pedagogical language journals. (TL)

This is an annotated guide to English language instructional materials useful for both native and non-native speakers of English at primary and secondary levels. Materials relate to and are available in Great Britain; prices and addresses of publishers and suppliers are included. The sections cover: (1) Visual aids specifically designed for…

This elementary reader is one of a series produced by the Alaska Native Language Center. It contains eleven stories, written in six dialects of the Tanaina language, and is designed to be used either as reading exercises by native speakers of Tanaina who are learning to read and write their language, or as lessons in Tanaina language and culture…

The school performance of pupils in grades 2-4 of the French immersion program in operation in the Ottawa-Carleton public schools is evaluated in comparison with the performance of those in the regular English program. The results indicate that by the end of grade 2, pupils in the immersion program show the same level of cognitive development as…

This volume contains achievement tests designed for American students studying Persian at the elementary level. They are constructed on the basis of materials related to course syllabi. Preceding the tests, the sources of the test data are reviewed and the main ones are listed. The allocation of points in each section of the test syllabus is…

Articles in this volume relate to the Yugoslav Serbo-Croatian-English Contrastive Project: (1) "The Yugoslav Serbo-Croatian-English Contrastive Project at the End of its Second Phase (1971-1975)," Rudolf Filipovic: Pedagogical goals and application of contrastive analysis are best achieved when accompanied by error analysis. Reports,…

This guide was written to help teachers make students aware of the multilingual and multi-ethnic nature of New York City in order to experience and explore different languages and customs. New York is a center for variety in language and culture in the areas of diplomacy, international commerce, media and communications, foods and fashion, the…

Speech samples were taken every two weeks for a period of 40 weeks from a five-year-old Japanese girl learning English as a second language through her environment. The presence or absence of some grammatical morphemes in linguistic or nonlinguistic obligatory context was scored; using Brown's (1973) criterion for morpheme acquisition, a rank…

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…