This article describes the first phase of a project designed to introduce the teaching of English and French into a certain number of classes in elementary schools in Turin, Milan, Rome, and Naples, Italy. (CFM)

Numerous experiments in the early introducing of English teaching show this approach to be the most successful. The tendency to drop these projects for economy's sake is lamentable. Introducing English at the primary level would greatly improve English teaching at the junior high school level. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

See FL 502 554 for companion article. (RS)

See FL 502 553 for companion article. (RS)

The author visited elementary school English classes in Puerto Rico and this article illustrates some of their activities. (CK)

Some of the problems encountered by elementary grade second language pupils when they do uncontextualized written exercises in numbered lists from a course book are discussed. Ways to partially overcome such problems are suggested. (RM)

This booklet is designed to provide the teacher of English as a second language with teaching devices, songs, and games for the elementary school level. These materials have been used and "have proven successful in many teaching situations." Because the cultural context and linguistic content are general rather than based on a specific language,…