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Brown, George H.; Fiks, Alfred I. – 1967
This report presents detailed, nonevaluative descriptions of instructional methods used in a sample of outstanding language training centers. Together these 19 different training programs represent a student age range from subteen to adult. Included are both intensive and nonintensive, military and civilian, and governmental and nongovernmental…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, College Language Programs, Comparative Analysis, Federal Programs
Duffin, Beryl; And Others – 1977
In 1976, small special sections of English A (basic composition) were initiated within the English Department of the University of California at Davis to teach university-level writing skills to students in the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), seventy-five per cent of whom speak English as a second language. This paper describes the design…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, College Language Programs, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Wajskop-Hianne, M.; Renkin, A. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1968
With the immediate aim of reinforcing the productive and receptive control of ordinary spoken language, experiments were undertaken using two methods of teaching French to university students with some knowledge of the written language. The first of the two groups involved in the experiment completed a 240-hour course consisting primarily of…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, College Language Programs, Comparative Analysis
Keller, Howard H. – 1975
FL-101 is an interdisciplinary, team-taught orientation to foreign languages. It has been designed to accomplish two goals: (1) provide a language-related academic experience for students who would otherwise not have any contact with languages, and (2) attract students to the further study of language. There are nine major components in the…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Area Studies, College Language Programs, Comparative Analysis
WYKES, OLIVE – 1966
STIMULATED BY THE NEED FOR A REVIVED INTEREST IN AND IMPROVEMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS IN AUSTRALIA, THIS 1964 SURVEY, UNDERTAKEN AT THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE AUSTRALIAN HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL AS A SUPPLEMENT TO A SURVEY MADE OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS, WAS DESIGNED TO INVESTIGATE THE STATE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING IN UNIVERSITIES, AND…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, College School Cooperation, Comparative Analysis, Core Curriculum
Morford, M. P. O., Ed.
The status of classical studies in the United States of America is contrasted with the British classical tradition from diverse points of view. Several articles focus on: (1) the English and American school systems, (2) a historical survey of the classics in the schools and universities of the United States, (3) classical associations in the…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Classical Literature, College Language Programs, Colleges
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Mills, Dorothy Hurst – Hispania, 1969
Descriptors: Charts, College Language Programs, Comparative Analysis, English
Aleamoni, Lawrence M.; Matsunaga, Allen – 1970
The College Entrance Examination Board Foreign Language Placement Tests were normed on students enrolled in French, German, Russian, and Spanish courses during Fall semester, 1969. Differences between performance at the four levels of each course were also investigated and comparisons made among CEEB test scores, course grades, and CEEB standard…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, College Language Programs, Comparative Analysis
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Mornin, Edward – Unterrichtspraxis, 1978
A contrastive treatment of texts with some common thematic material but by different authors is discussed. The tales, Hoffmann's "Der Goldene Topf" and Eichendorff's "Das Marmorbild" are suited for a third- or fourth-year undergraduate literature survey course. The comparative method can be applied to all genres. (SW)
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Comparative Analysis, German Literature, Higher Education
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Sommer, Harold M. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1976
Advocates the use of Hoerspiele (radio plays) in intermediate German college courses to facilitate the transition from spoken vocabulary to reading vocabulary. A statistical comparison is given between the vocabularies of spoken language, Hoerspiele, modern short stories and newspapers, showing that Hoerspiele have more words in common with spoken…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Comparative Analysis, German, Higher Education
Bruder, Mary Newton; Hayden, Luddy – 1972
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…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Black Dialects, Classroom Techniques, College Language Programs