A semester study program for American students in Leningrad is described. Student selection, directors, participating schools, housing, courses and academic program, extra-curricular activities, and facilities are discussed. Suggested improvements included shorter class hours, fewer hours per week, lecture revisions, institution of required…

The language media laboratory described in this proposal is intended to provide for the implementation of broader instructional objectives than language laboratories of previous years, including the dial access type. The proposal is divided into three main sections: (1) program rationale; (2) programs and services; and (3) design of the language…

THE REPORTS OF THE WORKING COMMITTEES OF THE 1964 NORTHEAST CONFERENCE ON THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES RELATE TO THE PRACTICES INVOLVED IN IDEAL ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY, AND HIGHER EDUCATION LANGUAGE PROGRAMS. INCLUDED IN THE REPORT ON FLES PROGRAMS, DEVELOPED BY CONRAD J. SCHMITT AND HIS COMMITTEE, ARE DISCUSSIONS OF FLES MATERIALS AND…

In the 1968-69 controversy over the foreign language requirement for the B.A. degree in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts of the University of Michigan, the College faculty chose a compromise solution to the policy in practice since 1954 of a required 4-semester study of a foreign language with placement testing. Policy alternatives…