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Langhanke, Otto L. W. – Otto L.W. Langhanke, 1917
This textbook is the teacher's manual for "Beginner's German. First Book." It is intended to cover one year of 40-minute periods or one and one-half years of 30-minute periods. After a year and a half the average student should be able to read such plays as Mosers "Bibliothekar", to memorize any part thereof, to write a…
Descriptors: High School Students, Textbooks, German, Second Language Learning
Johnston, Marjorie C.; Seerley, Catharine C. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1958
The Office of Education, in cooperation with the Modern Language Association of America, conducted a survey of language laboratories in secondary schools and institutions of higher education during the school year 1957-58. The procedure was to send a short questionnaire to all the schools and colleges known to have a language laboratory and…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Secondary Schools, Colleges, Questionnaires
Phillips, Frank M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1929
This report includes data from 18,116 public high schools which furnished information to the Bureau of Education concerning their activities for the school year ending in June, 1928. The tabulations include the number of schools of various types, the number of administrators, the number of teachers, the number of pupils enrolled, the subjects…
Descriptors: High Schools, Public Schools, Tables (Data), Enrollment
O'Connor, Patricia – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
Achievement approaching mastery in the use of at least one modern foreign language on the part of a large portion of tomorrow's citizens is an objective which is new in American education. Language programs in the high school are therefore undergoing basic modifications in order to establish learning conditions that can develop communication…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Communication Skills, Speech Communication
Johnston, Marjorie C.; Remer, Ilo – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
Counseling pupils of high school age about foreign language programs fitted to their needs and abilities is somewhat more difficult than in the past, both because the objectives are different and because a thoroughgoing revision of language instruction is taking place at all levels of the school system. Guidance workers, teachers, principals, and…
Descriptors: Degree Requirements, Modern Languages, Cooperation, Second Language Learning
O'Shea, M.V. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
This monograph presents data and conclusions derived from one phase of an investigation of objectives and methods in the teaching of modern foreign languages in high schools and colleges. A committee of specialists operating under the auspices of the American Council of Education and with financial assistance received from the Carnegie Corporation…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Graduation, High Schools
Remer, Ilo – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
The trend toward the development of functional communication skills and a longer sequence of language study has been hastened by an awakened public interest in modern foreign languages and by the emphasis given to language development in the National Defense Education Act. Both the immediate and the long-range objectives of foreign language study…
Descriptors: Guides, Communication Skills, Second Language Learning, Second Language Programs
Swiggett, Glen Levin – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
Training for foreign service adequate to achieve the end in view, must be based upon satisfactory consensus in commercial education. This type of instruction should be established in all cities of present or potential foreign trade opportunities. This first conference to be held in the United States for the specific purpose of discussing the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Policy, Educational Needs
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1980
The report presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors, as well as the work of the Office of Education. Among topics covered are education-equalization programs, including desegregation assistance, civil rights advisory services, education of disadvantaged children, grants to local education agencies, migrant children, neglected…
Descriptors: Equal Education, School Desegregation, Civil Rights, Access to Education