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Peer reviewedDaSilva, Zenia Sacks – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1974
Comments on various teaching techniques found to be helpful in teaching conversational language courses. (RL)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Language Instruction, Modern Languages, Teaching Methods
Download full textSTEVICK, EARL; AND OTHERS – 1966
THIS TEXT, BASED ON AN "EXPERIMENTAL COURSE IN SWAHILI" (FSI 1965), WAS PREPARED FOR THE PEACE CORPS. THE STUDENT IS INTRODUCED TO THE RUDIMENTS OF SWAHILI GRAMMAR AS WELL AS TO A NUMBER OF THE HIGHEST FREQUENCY PATTERNS AND CLICHES WHICH HE WILL NEED IMMEDIATELY UPON ARRIVAL IN EAST AFRICA. THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF THIS COURSE IS ITS…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Conversational Language Courses, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedSoechting, Paul – Unterrichtspraxis, 1974
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedBuck, David P. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1974
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Educational Television, Language Instruction, Language Programs
Peer reviewedKvavik, Karen H. – Hispania, 1973
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Grammar, Language Instruction, Spanish
Gloeckner, Heinrich – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1974
Continuing a theme introduced in the 6/73 issue, utterance types productive of active response (agreement, confirmation, emphasis, supplement, information, appraisal, position-taking, offering of proof) and designed to lead to ability to make free conversation are suggested. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, German, Language Instruction, Language Skills
Hawkey, Roger – Bulletin of the English Language Center, 1972
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Oral English
KELLEY, GERALD B. – 1963
ONE OF THE FOUR DRAVIDIAN LANGUAGES RECOGNIZED BY THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION OF 1950 AS OFFICIAL LANGUAGES OF THE COUNTRY, TELUGU IS SPOKEN BY 42 MILLION PEOPLE IN ANDHRA PRADESH. THESE INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ARE DESIGNED FOR THE INTERMEDIATE STUDENT OF TELUGU AND ARE DIVIDED INTO NEWSPAPER READINGS AND DIALOGUES OF EVERYDAY CONVERSATION. SUBJECTS…
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Cultural Context, Glossaries, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedGwang-tsai, Chen – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1974
The framed dialogue method which has been used for improving the teaching of the Chinese language at the University of Wisconsin since 1968 is described, and examples are given. The advantages of this method over pattern drill are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Conversational Language Courses, Language Instruction, Pattern Drills (Language)
Peer reviewedLogan, Gerald E. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1973
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Conversational Language Courses, German, High Schools
Peer reviewedClausing, Gerhard; Wolfram, Manfred K. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1973
Describes an experimental course in informal German conversation and dramatics at the University of California, Berkeley, California. (RS)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Conversational Language Courses, Dramatics, German
Mortelier, Christiane – Francais dans le Monde, 1979
Describes a 1978 experiment in which French conversations (among advanced students of French) were transmitted by satellite from Hawaii to other locations in the Pacific. (AM)
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Conversational Language Courses, French, Higher Education
Peer reviewedPetrucelli, Gerald J. – Italica, 1974
Principles, objectives, and techniques that focus on the challenge to and the role of teacher and student in the Italian conversation course, with a view to greater efficacy, are presented. (AM)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Educational Objectives, Italian, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedJakobovits, Leon A. – Modern Language Journal, 1974
Briefly outlines the rationale for a transactional approach to language teaching. (PM)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedBrochin, Yuri – Russian Language Journal, 1974
Describes techniques for achieving emotional involvement and, therefore, better results on the part of his students in an intermediate level Russian conversation course. (Text is in Russian.) (DH)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Language Fluency, Language Instruction, Russian
