If various color names are printed in various color inks, an observer has great difficulty in rapidly naming the ink colors (Stroop Color Word Test) unless the color names and the ink colors are mutually reinforcing, or the color names are unknown to the observer. The latter suggests a partial measure of second-language fluency, the feasibility of…

Empathy, or the immediate emotional apprehension of the affective experience of another person, plays an important role in the developmental acquisition of a first language. It is hypothesized that a capacity for empathy contributes to the mastery of the pronunciation of a second language. An operational redefinition of empathic skill as the…

Members of the Joint National Committee for Languages are called upon to participate in a national campaign to take the case for language study before the American public. (RM)

Proposes a method for French language instruction that uses an unidentified object, that is, an object constructed in such a way as to represent different things to different students. (AM)

Reports on an experiment that seems to indicate that hypnosis can improve foreign language pronunciation. (Author/AM)

Provides examples of: (1) forms to be filled out on French daily life; (2) personal announcements in the newspaper; and (3) problems in municipal government, for use in an advanced French class. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Recognizes three kinds of motivation: Societally induced, native, and motivation acquired in early life. Implications for teaching are discussed, both in general and specifically in foreign language teaching. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Discusses, for the benefit of English-speaking students, the use of the article with personal titles in Spanish. (RM)

Summarizes the usefulness and the disadvantage of error analysis, and discusses a reorientation of error analysis, specifically regarding grammar instruction and the significance of errors. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Argues for an integral role of contrastive analysis and translation in a foreign language teaching program. (AM)

Argues against the thesis that exact translation is impossible, because languages reflect different world-views or different cognitive structures (de Saussure, Humboldt, Whorf, Weisgerber). The possibility of underlying universals (Lenneberg, Heger) must be considered and discussed in the field of language teacing. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Reviews research regarding the role of correction feedback in second-language acquisition, exploring why, what, and how language should be corrected and who should correct language. (Author/CB)

The research base for computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is disturbingly small, with serious obstacles that limit much of the research's relevance to the practitioner. Practitioners and researchers must expand this research base to fully explore the many uses of CALL in the field. (CB))

Looks at the work of Thomas Prendergast, a nineteenth century language-learning specialist. Reviews those aspects of his work which come closest to Harold Palmer's work, either in its theoretical assumptions or in its practical prescience. Prendergast believed that a language is learned by imitation, planned repetition, mimicry, and memorization.…