Questions concerning improvement of the quality of foreign language teaching and training of proletarian personnel specializing in foreign languages are explored. Changes in teaching methods and materials are suggested, based on theories of China's Great Cultural Revolution. (SM)

A teaching program for training worker-peasant-soldier students for the basic mastery of the Russian language is described. The system emphasizes three stages of learning: articulation, study of inflection, and teaching through hearing and speaking. Training methods are described and evaluated. (SM)

Guidelines for the development of teaching materials that reflect the realities of the Three Great Revolutionary Movements are presented. It is recommended that materials be in conformity with the language laws and advantageous to training for the basic mastery of language. (SM)

One of the central and defining features of man is language; there can be no deep understanding of man without some understanding of language. Linguistics is the "orderly examination of language in terms appropriate to itself." The central task of linguistics is grammar, the study of the patterning that brings together sounds or symbols with…

A summary of a new German paperback series titled Theorie und Praxis der Erwachsenenbildung (Theory and Practice of Adult Education). This summary is intended to provide a general outline of the range and significance of the volumes so far published. (Author/JB)

A study of objectives in teacher training. Several theories and methods are compared with the actual educational situation. Suggestions for developing a system by and within these countries that would be more in tune with their own culture are given. (AMH)

This article discusses the role of second language teachers in relation to the changing role of language departments at the university level. Of the many factors involved in setting up a successful language program, student participation and the role of the teacher are among the most important. The teacher's qualifications should reflect the…

Changes currently affecting language teachers concern the social and educational functions of foreign languages, student expectations, and teaching methods. Distinctions are made between states of professional development from instructor to teacher to educator. A model of the language learning/teaching process and requirements for optimum success…

The principal discussion in this paper focuses on the student, teacher, administrator, and community as agents of educational change and on the conjectured future change in the field of language instruction. Additional comments on the fourth volume of the ACTFL-sponsored annual review of language instruction, "Foreign Language Education: A…