A study investigated the rate of vocabulary acquisition in English-Japanese word pairs among college-age Japanese learners in a classroom situation. Subjects were 41 students in an intensive program of English for academic purposes. Three groups of students were given word pair lists of different lengths, and guided in studying them over a period…

Based on a hypothetical situation in which second language learners must attain substantial skills in a very short time, the paper recommends intensive training not in the language itself, but in skills and strategies for learning the language. This requires achieving self-directed learning skills to: create a climate maximizing learning; identify…

In response to rapidly falling foreign language enrollments, the State University of New York College at New Paltz designed and actively promoted a language immersion program in the summer of 1981. The program consisted of instruction in twelve languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian,…

This document consists of the six issues of this newsletter published during the two-year period summer 1994 to summer 1996. Intended for teachers of intensive English-as-a-Second-Language programs (IEPs), the issue contains the following articles: "The Inviolable Core of Intensive English Programs" (Fredricka L. Stoller); "Report…