Discusses the role of the university, in particular the Canadian university, in FL instruction. (KM)

The establishment of an individualized language program is seen as embracing four major considerations. A needs assessment will deal with the problem areas of negative attitudes and high attrition rates, inadequate operating budgets, and the tendency toward diminished effectiveness of foreign language instruction in general. Options for program…

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PROGRAMED FRENCH PHONETICS COURSE FOR SECOND YEAR STUDENTS IS DESCRIBED BRIEFLY. THE COURSE EMPHASIZES ACTIVE STUDENT PARTICIPATION, IMMEDIATE REINFORCEMENT, AND PROGRESSIVE FRAMES, AND CONSISTS OF A PRINTED TEXTBOOK AND A TAPE. THE STUDENT CHECKS HIS ORAL RESPONSES WITH THE TAPE, AND HIS WRITTEN RESPONSES WITH THE PROGRAMED…

ONE OF THE MAIN AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE ON CRITICAL LANGUAGES HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON APRIL 6-7, 1965, WAS TO FIND A CONSENSUS OF OPINION AMONG LINGUISTS, LANGUAGE TEACHERS, AND COLLEGE ADMINISTRATORS ON THE PROBLEMS OF INTRODUCING CRITICAL OR NEGLECTED LANGUAGES INTO THE CURRICULUM OF SMALL, LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES. THE CONFERENCE WAS…

IN A 4-WEEK SEMINAR SPONSORED BY THE INDIANA LANGUAGE PROGRAM AND DEPAUW UNIVERSITY, ADVANCED TRAINING IN NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION AND TEACHER PREPARATION WAS PROVIDED FOR 25 INDIANA COLLEGE LANGUAGE TEACHERS OF FRENCH AND SPANISH WHOSE RESPONSIBILITIES IN THEIR HOME INSTITUTIONS INCLUDED SOME PHASE OF TEACHER PREPARATION.…

THE AUTHOR, WHO IS A HISTORIAN, POINTS OUT THE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS OF TEACHERS IN SMALL COLLEGES WHO ARE FACED WITH TEACHING ASIAN LANGUAGES IN ADDITION TO SURVEY COURSES IN FAR EASTERN CULTURAL HISTORY. HE HAS FOUND THAT A COURSE IN THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF JAPAN OR CHINA WILL LEAD TO A DESIRE ON THE PART OF SOME STUDENTS TO LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT…

"Speak Dutch" is a revised and augmented edition of "Modern Dutch, A First Year College Level Audio-Lingual Course for Dutch." The text is organized into 26 regular lessons and four review lessons plus indexes to grammar points and vocabulary and a list of verb paradigms. The first lesson (40 pages) is devoted to systematic presentation of the…

China has had the same written language, "wen-yan," since the third century B.C. "Wen-yan is the classical, literary language. In this paper the author discusses the five problems which must be considered with regard to the teaching of classical Chinese to American college students. These are: (1) why this literary language should…

Suggestions are made on the inclusion of historical linguistics in beginning or intermediate German classes in an attempt to show why the prospective teacher ought to have a knowledge of the history of the language. Appropriate levels are cited for the instructional suggestions given. (AF)

Statistics from a study conducted in the University of Michigan's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures are presented in tabular form under these headings: placement scale, numbers of students placed, numbers of students enrolled, previous German versus placement, grades received, and performance of CEEB students (by course). (AF)

The self-instructional language program (SILP) allows students to learn, through a guided individualized study program, a foreign language not offered in the regular university curriculum. A director for the program offers the facilities and materials necessary for administering such a program. A tutor, who is a native speaker of the target…

This survey attempts to bring together as much information as possible on the current study and teaching of North American Indian languages in the United States and Canada. The primary source of data for this survey was a questionnaire distributed in the spring of 1973 to 61 universities and colleges in the U.S. and Canada. Other sources were…

Sinologists concerned with methods of teaching literature are exposed to an interpretive and structural approach to the field. Problems encountered in translating the Chinese short story into English are illustrated by several examples. A method of analysis of the thematic structure of a story is examined on three levels: (1) overt plot and theme…

This manual is aimed primarily at helping students determine the correct usage of the 500 most frequently used characters in Japanese. The characters are arranged in order of frequency of occurrence. This order is derived from a recent frequency occurrence analysis of popular journals, conducted by the National Language Research Institute (NLRI)…

Reply to Foulkes' article "Some Speculations on the Future of German Departments in the United States, 'German Quarterly' v47", in which Foulkes' denigration of the value of learning or teaching German is criticized. His proposals for reforming the German departments are approved. (MS)