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Marckwardt, Albert H. – Language, 1964
This presidential address sketches the development of the Linguistic Society of America since 1924, indicates the motives for its formation, and surveys its progress, status, and impact in the field of linguistics, both in the lay and scholarly spheres. The organization's role in the study of foreign languages, English, and English as a second…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, English (Second Language)
Adcock, Dwayne – 1976
Representative programs and new approaches to foreign language education in the elementary school (grades K-8) are identified. Included is a review of foreign languages in emerging adolescent education, or programs for students in grades 5-8 or 6-8 that are housed in a middle or junior high school. A discussion is presented of major curriculum…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education
Council of Europe, Strasbourg (France). Committee for Out-of-School Education and Cultural Development. – 1972
The aims of this meeting of the group of experts set up to investigate the feasibility of a unit/credit system for modern language learning by adults were: (1) to define, on the basis of the results of three preliminary interrelated studies, the second phase of the research, namely, the operational specification of learning objectives; (2) to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Conferences, Credits, Curriculum Development
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Benseler, David P., Comp. – 1976
This 2,380-item annotated bibliography is a selective list of books and articles related to foreign language pedagogy. The entries are grouped by topic, in the following individual sections: Festschriften and Other Analyzed Collections, General, Bilingualism, Linguistics, Culture, Teaching the Foreign Literature, Curricular Problems and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Classical Languages
Starr, S. Frederick; Boisture, J. Bruce – 1972
This study was prepared to provide a convenient compendium of data for those participating in a conference on "Russian and Soviet Studies in the United States" held at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey, in May, 1972. The purpose of the conference and of the study was to assess the state of teaching and research…
Descriptors: Area Studies, College Curriculum, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education
Jarvis, Gilbert A., Ed. – 1976
This volume on foreign language teaching and learning concerns the following topics: lifelong learning, small-group learning, the minicourse, student attitudes toward foreign languages, problems in secondary schools, humanistic education, curricula in uncommonly taught languages, foreign languages in elementary and adolescent-centered education,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, FLES