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Schulz, Renate A. – ADFL Bulletin, 1979
Examines the elements of a successful intensive language program, including areas such as staffing, scheduling, and recruitment of students. (AM)
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Higher Education, Intensive Language Courses, Language Instruction
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Jones, James F., Jr. – ADFL Bulletin, 1982
An account of the way the Dartmouth Intensive Language Model was introduced and revised at Washington University. The topics discussed are the class organization, staffing, teaching methods, financing, the summer and year-long study-abroad programs, college administration support, student response, and enrollment trends. (AMH)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Enrollment Trends, French, Higher Education
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Stansfield, Charles; Hornor, Jeanne – ADFL Bulletin, 1981
Describes the Dartmouth-Rassias language instruction model emphasizing its reliance on audiolingual techniques and on the intensive approach. Discusses classroom techniques, unique teacher selection methods, and importance of teacher attitudes. Reviews the results achieved by this model and expresses the hope that it will receive more attention…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Instructional Design, Instructional Innovation, Instructional Materials
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Loughrin-Sacco, Steven J.; And Others – ADFL Bulletin, 1990
Describes and evaluates a two-week intensive French course designed to rebuild the eroded language skills of university students who had had at least two years of high school French. The program, which could be implemented for other languages, provides a complete review of major grammar points and vocabulary. (CB)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Course Evaluation, French, Higher Education
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Schulz, Renate A. – ADFL Bulletin, 1981
Reviewing the President's Commission recommendations, urges language departments to: make language teaching, rather than literary scholarship, their top priority; make intensive or immersion language courses part of the regular curriculum options; develop common standards of proficiency assessment; foster interaction among themselves; support…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
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Ke, Chuanren – ADFL Bulletin, 1995
Discusses the importance of linguistic accuracy in proficiency-orientated foreign language programs, focusing on the experiences of college students in a summer intensive Chinese program. Linguistic inaccuracy is often the result of teachers focusing on form and meaning at the same time, fossilization, overuse of communicative strategies, lack of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Class Activities, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages)