This outline of the current status of foreign language education in Indiana was presented to a panel from the President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies. Foreign language instruction at all levels is discussed with the support of statistics, and recommendations are made for mitigating deficiencies in existing programs.…

This research, covering a twelve-month period from February 1976 to February 1977, undertook in-depth studies of the costs of French in seven school systems in Ontario. Four of these were urban, and three were semi-urban/semi-rural in population distribution. Part One of this report deals with an in-depth study of the costs of French programs…

Findings are presented from the Teachers Language Skills Survey, the first national survey undertaken to estimate how many teachers currently employed in public schools have the backgrounds, experience, education, and skills needed to teach students with limited-English proficiency. Information was gathered on teachers teaching in the 1976-77…

This is a revised and expanded descriptive guide and directory to bilingual-bicultural educational programs funded during FY 1973-74 through Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended. There are 211 projects, in 32 states and territories, in which 26 languages are taught. The programs operate in the various…

Individual assessment of students of English as a second language is advocated. Based on a model used by Pearson, four language assessment areas are outlined: the semantic base in a first language, the syntax of the first language, the lexical items "shared" by the two languages, and the number and complexity of the phonemic elements in…

This report consists of an evaluation of four experimental French programs (1973-74) and the federally-funded extensions of these programs (1974-75) in the schools of the Carleton, Ontario, Roman Catholic Separate School Board. Part 1 provides a review of literature relevant to immersion, intensive and enriched language programs, and the…

This final report summarizes the research carried out between September 1971 and August 31, 1972, on the second language programs (French), of the English schools of the Ottawa Roman Catholic Separate School Board. Eight immersion classes and forty-seven classes receiving 75 minutes of French daily at the first grade level, and five immersion…

Large numbers of Puerto Rican and other non-English-speaking students live in school districts throughout New York State. To enable these students to function in an English-speaking society while retaining their own culture, a policy to promote bilingual program planning was established by the Board of Regents of New York State in 1972. In this…

This publication provides information on programs of study in Canada under the following headings: (1) the language of the minority group (French in nine of the provinces, English in Quebec) as a subject of study, showing grade enrollments and participation rates; (2) the language of the minority qroup as a first language (designed for French…

This report is the first attempt by the Office of Education to determine: (1) what the condition of bilingual education is in the United States, (2) what advances have been made, and (3) what problems remain to be solved. Following a discussion of the history and rationale of bilingual education, and the quantification of the need for bilingual…