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Strasheim, Lorraine A. – The Arizona Foreign Language Teachers' Forum, 1978
This outline of the current status of foreign language education in Indiana was presented to a panel from the President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies. Foreign language instruction at all levels is discussed with the support of statistics, and recommendations are made for mitigating deficiencies in existing programs.…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Instruction, Language Programs
MacKay, A. – 1979
Four evaluation studies were conducted of French as a second language program in grades 4, 5, and 6 in a large urban school district in western Canada. As a result of the 1972 study, which revealed major discrepancies between intended and observed outcomes, especially in oral skills, a major objectives-based curriculum was initiated. As part of…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment
Download full textBulletin of the Illinois Foreign Language Teachers Association, 1979
A task force was created in November of 1978 to assess the state of foreign language and international studies in Illinois public schools. This report begins with an overview of the current decline in foreign language enrollments and offerings. The need to foster foreign language study is discussed, both for its special place in intellectual…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Committees, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Rosier, Paul; Farella, Merilyn – 1977
During the 1976-77 academic year the Ganado (Arizona) Title VII Bilingual Education Project operated within a Cooperative Teaching Model based on language roles. Each teacher was assigned a role based on language responsibility: English language teachers concentrated on teaching English as a second language, while Navajo language teachers taught…
Descriptors: Achievement, American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, Bilingual Education
Nieves-Squires, Leslie C. – 1978
The purpose of this report on the Concordia College Language Village is to: (1) describe one aspect of the assessment effort, a survey of foreign language teachers whose students had attended the Village; (2) provide demographics for the 899 teachers who responded to the survey; and (3) display and comment on the findings drawn from data…
Descriptors: Demography, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, French
President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies: Background Papers and Studies.
President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies, Washington, DC. – 1979
The following reports by various authors concerning foreign languages and international studies are included: (1) a personal statement on international education by Betty Bullard; (2) "Foreign Languages in the American School"; (3) "High Schools for Foreign Language and International Studies: An Interagency Paper"; (4)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Communication, College Language Programs, Educational Attitudes
