Describes the new syllabus used for teaching English to secondary school students in Israel. (Author)

Discusses the importance of pronunciation in teaching English as a second language. The role of stress in English is emphasized in particular. (KM)

Recommends and illustrates the use of oral lists of familiar English words in acclimatizing students of English as a second language to common sounds before exposure to a text or to conversation. (MSE)

Wherever aural comprehension is prized, together with literacy and ability to read the foreign language, dictation may be found to be both profitable for teaching and valid for testing. It must not be presented as a series of spelling traps but as a realistic language activity. (Author/CFM)

Proposes a learner-centered model of different levels of graded objectives for teaching foreign languages from the elementary-beginner stages through the public examination level in the United Kingdom. (PMJ)

A discussion by a teacher of advanced English as a second language of the first three months of the course in which he tries to make students feel responsible, motivated and interested. Four sample lesson outlines are given. (AMH)

Discusses using meaningful series of sound effects which are pertinent to the language needs of the target group to provide the pedagogical advantage of at least partially eliminating culture and class-loading from the lesson. (Author/NCR)

Teacher prepared taped exchanges of realia between foreign language classes and classes of speakers of the target language provide language lessons through personal contact similar to those gained through a trip to the country of the target language. Sample lessons offer linguistic, cultural, and practical guidelines for implementing such a…

An overview of English training as offered by IBM for its employees. Describes methodology, teacher training, optimum time allotment and learning site, course objectives and student grouping. (MLA)