Presents a method which draws upon students' imagination, creativity, and associative abilities and engages them in the language learning process. (Author/AM)

Describes how foreign stamps can be collected, catalogued, photographed, and arranged in thematic areas in order to be incorporated into a language curriculum or culture cluster. (Author/AM)

Describes a method, developed to make vocabulary learning a creative challenge, that consists of a four-step learning process that makes the student responsible for selecting words to learn daily. (Author/AM)

Factors contributing to the development of successful early childhood foreign language programs are considered within a specific context. Grouping procedures, curriculum design, hierarchies of language learning experiences, affective learning processes, and instructional materials are discussed. (SW)

Suggestopaedia is defined as the application of the principles of suggestology (the science of suggestion) to teaching. The main principles of this system and their pedagogical application are briefly described. (Author/EJS)

Presents activities designed to help the language teacher, teacher candidate, and language student learn to use metric measurement. A pretest/post-test is provided in English. Metric vocabulary is given in French, Spanish, and German. A list of sources of metric information and teaching aids is appended. (Author/AM)

Examines the loss in popularity of contrastive linguistics as a method for explaining second language learning systems, and calls for a turn to pragmatics in language teaching. (AM)

Describes the philosophical bases of confluent education, and provides examples of this method in language instruction. (AM)

Discusses the usefulness of the speech expander and the speech compressor in second language instruction, particularly as concerns the development of listening comprehension skills. (AM)

An approach is presented for providing students with communication practice by relating course material to the common purposes of language use. A system for classifying communication activities is outlined in order to insure realistic, varied practice. Examples are provided in Spanish. (SW)

Special features and advantages of foreign language mini-courses and suggestions for establishing a workable system are discussed. One advantage of the system is the minimizing of schedule conflicts. (SW)

Describes a prototype electronic device that may be used in the classroom or in the laboratory to display pedagogical models and student articulations of target language sounds simultaneously. (Author/AM)

Discusses the benefits of introducing the culture of the target language into the second language classroom via the mass media -- newspapers, magazines, television, and popular music. (AM)

Audiolingual and translation exercises are presented that were designed to correct syntax of junior high school French language students. The exercises were given to eliminate translating the present progressive and the imperfect word for word, and to develop more awareness of reflexive construction and the imperfect tense. (SW)

The cognitive approach to foreign language teaching is discussed, and practical guidelines for classroom application of error analysis are presented. The cognitive approach seeks to develop a competence approximating that of native speakers without explicit reference to previously memorized material. (SW)