Abridged from Peace Corps Faculty Paper No. 6 (February 1970). (DS)

Paper presented in May 1970 at a Colloquium of the Universities of Leipzig and Salford. (DS)

This article discusses a method of teaching French that would depend less on the textbook in the classroom situation, and significantly on an affective approach that enables the teacher to elicit the material to be used as examples from the students themselves. (CLK)

Designed for the inexperienced language teacher, this summary of effective language teaching techniques is based on observations made in high school French classes, but is applicable also to elementary school and beginning college language programs. Consideration is given to maintaining interest and classroom control, using realia, and giving each…

Visual aids developed in the German program of the East Texas State University (Commerce) Department of Foreign Languages and used with the textbooks "Active German, Revised" and "Focus on German for Intermediates" are described, and suggestions are made for their application. Emphasis is on classroom use of demonstration panels, overhead…

Describes an inductive approach to teaching the general characteristics of a literary movement or period. Without prior discussion, students are asked to identify similarities among various art forms of a given period; this procedure stimulates further study, exploration, and disscussion of the subject. (EJS)

This paper considers the problem of teaching formal composition skills to those whose repertories lack formal standard speaking style. The approach advocated here is bidialectal and is based on the idea that control of a variety of language styles is a useful tool and that productive competence of formal composition style is a mandatory skill for…