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Davin, Kristin – Learning Languages, 2010
Like many elementary foreign language teachers, the author traveled from room to room to teach. Each room had different materials and a different classroom culture. This article describes how the author taught her students about Bolivia and how to motivate them through culture. It discusses a service-learning project that brings life-changing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Motivation Techniques, Language Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Kunkle, John F. – Foreign Language Annals, 1977
This article questions the validity of many conclusions of the ten-year experiment with teaching French in primary schools in England and Wales in the report, "Primary French in the Balance." Some conclusions are based on restricted opinion conflicting with report data. Parallels are drawn with the "Pennsylvania Project." (CHK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, FLES, French, Language Instruction
RUPP, THEODORE H.
DESIGNED TO OBTAIN INFORMATION ON ARTICULATION OF LANGUAGE PROGRAMS IN THE UNITED STATES, ONE OF THESE QUESTIONNAIRES DEALS WITH FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN THE ELEMENTARY, JUNIOR HIGH, AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS, THE OTHER WITH LANGUAGE STUDY AT THE UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE LEVELS IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. SUBJECTS COVERED ARE--(1)…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Language Programs, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
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Mitsui, Akiko; Morimoto, Yoko; Tucker, G. Richard; Donato, Richard – Learning Languages, 2005
This paper is another installment in the ongoing project on early language learning in a Japanese FLES program, conducted by ELLRT (Early Language Learning Research Team): Richard Donato and G. Richard Tucker with graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. The Japanese instructor in this FLES program, Yoko…
Descriptors: FLES, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Written Language
Chestnut, David T. – 1969
The success of foreign language in elementary schools (FLES) depends upon the cooperation and effort of administrators, classroom teachers, secondary school language teachers, the community at large, and parents. Having stated this, the author points out five fundamentals for FLES concerning: (1) major objectives, (2) sequential planning, (3)…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Bilingual Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Masciantonio, Rudolph – Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Classical Association, 1969
After a brief description of the FLES Latin program in the Philadelphia school district, this article proceeds to list changes in secondary school programs, in general, that will be stimulated by offering Latin at the elementary school level. Mentioned are such consequences as (1) an influx of average and below-average students, (2) the…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Attitude Change, Audiolingual Methods, Classical Literature