Factors to be considered in selecting a text for a foreign language classroom are divided into five categories--student/text relationship, curriculum/text relationship, class size/text relationship, teacher/text relationship, and internal construction of the text--are discussed. (RM)

Paper presented December 1972, Bangkok, Thailand. (RL)

Provides statements from the following persons concerning the problem of having too much material in the textbook to cover and ways teachers can cope with it: Anthony Gradisnik, Joan Miller, Lorraine A. Strasheim, Rebecca M. Valette, and Helen P. Warriner. (RM)

This guide for teaching English at the seventh grade level in German comprehensive schools contains the following major headings and subtopics: (1) Fundamentals and Postulates: student grouping problems, recommendations for a plan of instruction and use of materials, and learning goals in secondary education; (2) the Audiolingual Conception: a…

This publication presents three suggested social studies curriculum units designed for the bilingual Spanish-English classroom, but which would also be useful in advanced Spanish language classes for English speakers. The units, developed for grades 7-11, are entitled, "Procedures for Driving,""Maintenance of an Automobile,"…

Expanded version of a paper presented at a regional meeting of the German Modern Language Association (Allgemeiner Deutscher Neuphilologen-Verband) on June 2, 1971 in Iserlohn, West Germany. (WB)

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)

Paper presented at the general session of the annual meeting of the Dutch Modern Language Teachers Association, December 14, 1971. (WB)

This study describes and assesses the state of bilingual curriculum development activities in the National Network of Centers for Bilingual Education. Recommendations are made for improvement in the creation, production, and distribution of bilingual instructional materials. The overall approach to the study was tripartite and focused on: (1) the…

This volume contains papers presented at the first conference for teachers of Japanese in Australia. Section one of the volume contains the opening presentation, by J. Neustupny, which discusses current trends in Japanese language teaching in Australia. Section two contains nine symposium papers, which deal with problems in secondary curricula for…

A systematic cultural plan applied to the second language textbook will not produce riches overnight, but it is a solid beginning that might be expanded when the teacher has the opportunity for further research or an increase in budget for the purchase of cultural modules. The key word in this proposal is "system." Teachers can, and do, add…