For English as a Second Language (ESL) students or English Language Learners (ELLs), the use of various adverbial clauses was summarized and illustrated of comparison, concession, condition, degree, manner, place, proportion, purpose, reason (or cause), result, and time, including the non-finite clauses, some prepositions, and prepositional…

Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting-edge work on second language learning, this "Handbook," written by a team of leading experts, surveys the nature of second language learning and its implications for teaching. Prominent theories and methods from linguistics, psycholinguistics, processing-based, and cognitive approaches are…

This textbook is intended to be used in a beginning German course. It focuses on material of practical value offered and taught to bring students quickly and surely to the point where they can readily understand and speak the language. [For the "Teacher's Manual for Beginner's German. First Book," see ED623520.]

This textbook is a pictorial Japanese-language reading primer in for primary students. Lessons are in English with phonetic Japanese spelling.

The book opens with the names of twelve objects, which the teacher must have before him. These names have been selected with a view to embracing the whole alphabet, so that when the pupil has learned to write them, he has also learned to form all the letters in use. The teacher then directs the pupil, in writing, to touch one of these objects,…

In this textbook, the author has given a sequence of 44 lessons for foreign women. This textbook is used for teaching English to foreign women in U.S. settlement houses. The stories in this book can be given as reading lessons, and after a time should be supplemented by other simple stories of interest to them. Any desire which will lead to…

This reference grammar is intended for adult speakers of English who are at the elementary through the intermediate levels of acquisition of the Slovene language. It begins with a brief description of the Slovene language, its major dialects and its place among the Slavic languages. Information on the alphabet, pronunciation, and spelling rules…

Four booklets present articles on Spanish language and culture aimed at teachers of Spanish in the United States for student use in their classes. Number 17, "Los Jovenes Espanoles" (Spanish Youth), includes articles on Spanish youth sports, music, gangs, thoughts, and t-shirt slogans: (1) "Young Spanish Athletes"; (2)…

This CD-ROM is part of an interactive and dynamic multimedia package of information and games for learning K'iche' and Ixil. This CD-ROM contains selected radio programs for preschool students, scripted from the four storybooks created by Project "Enlace Quiche." It includes stories in K'iche', Ixil, and Spanish. (VWL)

Designed as a brief introduction to Romanian, this beginner-level workbook includes the Romanian alphabet, phonetics, similar Romanian/English words, basic expressions, numbers, basic dialogue, and greetings. (CNP)

This transcript and guide of a two-cassette course is designed to assist immigrants from the Asian-Pacific areas of China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and Vietnam eliminate their foreign accents. The course is appropriate for both individual and group study. The guide includes narrative and taped demonstrations of American English that pinpoint typical…

This textbook book is an English course intended for use during the seventh and eighth grades and provides for study along both lines of language work, grammar and composition. The book includes a section on dictionary use. The final chapter is devoted to word analysis and was designed especially for the benefit of that great majority of grammar…

This U.S. social studies textbook is intended for high school students of German. The text is an example of a content-based approach to foreign language instruction in which already familiar content forms a base onto which the target language forms are mapped. The material is not limited to the familiar: students are encouraged to view familiar…

Instructional materials for use in the U.S. Foreign Service Institute's Russian language training program are based on the diary of a fictional foreign service officer stationed in Moscow. The materials, written in both English and Russian, are organized as chapters in the diary. A quiz accompanies each chapter and focuses on the influence of…

This publication, written primarily in Spanish, is an activity book designed to teach Spanish through translation based on the theory that, in order to produce an acceptable translation, students must focus their attention on lexical and grammatical detail. The book combines incisive grammar explanations, relevant lexical information, and a wide…