PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION, A TEACHING METHOD WHICH INCORPORATES (1) A DETAILED SPECIFICATION OF TERMINAL BEHAVIOR, (2) A CAREFUL SEQUENCING OF THE MATERIAL INTO GRADED STEPS, AND (3) THE REINFORCEMENT OF STUDENT RESPONSE, WORKS MORE FAVORABLY IN CERTAIN INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA THAN IN OTHERS. CARROLL AND SKINNER BELIEVE THAT SUCCESS IN PROGRAMED…

THE PROBLEMS OF INSTRUCTION IN THE PHONOLOGY OF A SECOND LANGUAGE WERE INVESTIGATED. THIS REPORT DEALS PARTICULARY WITH THE PROBLEM OF SEQUENCE OF DISCRIMINATION AND DIFFERENTIATION TRAINING IN FRENCH INSTRUCTION IN THE PRIMARY GRADES. THE BODY OF THE REPORT PRESENTED THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK, A DETAILED STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM, THE DESCRIPTION…

Explains a Dartmouth Experimental College program utilizing computers to teach Danish and German. (DS)

Revised and expanded version of a paper presented at the Pacific Conference on Contrastive Linguistics and Language Universals held at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, in January 1971. (DS)

THE USE OF PHONEMIC TRANSCRIPTION IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING WAS INVESTIGATED, SPECIFICALLY AS TRANSCRIPTION FACILITATES AUDITORY-VISUAL RECOGNITION OF RUSSIAN SOUNDS AND SCRIPT. PHONEMIC TRANSCRIPTION SERVED IN THIS STUDY AS THE MEDIATING AGENT BETWEEN RUSSIAN SOUNDS AND CYRILLIC SCRIPT. THE LEARNING PROCESS WAS SET UP ON A MEDIATION CHAIN OF…

An experimental seminar in language was given in spring 1973 at Bowdoin College. The final project was creation, in groups of four or five, of an artificial language. The languages had to have a demonstrable grammatical form, some idiomatic content, and a clear orthographic and phonetic system. (Author/RM)

This document describes plans for a project investigating the introduction of English as a second language in Swedish schools beginning with the first grade. (English is now introduced as a compulsory foreign language in grade 4.) The primary aim of the Project is "to generally illustrate the effects which occur when the total number of…

Abridged from Peace Corps Faculty Paper No. 6 (February 1970). (DS)

Reports on an experiment in which ninth-graders took over the teaching of a Spanish class for several days. (CK)

TAPED EXERCISES BASED ON LITERATURE CAN BE USED IN THE LANGUAGE LABORATORY OR, IN PART, IN THE CLASSROOM TO MAINTAIN AND ASSURE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS' FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY IN INTRODUCTORY LITERATURE COURSES. PHONETIC DRILL, PATTERN PRACTICE, WORD-BUILDING EXERCISES, AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS PROMOTE COMPREHENSION AND FLUENCY,…

American River College (Calif.) devised an experimental program in remedial English intended to better prepare entering freshmen. It was given by open-circuit TV simultaneously to high school seniors and junior college freshmen in the hope that, in subsequent years, there would be fewer inadequately prepared freshmen and that more could enroll…

Describes the response of one Canadian community and its local school board to the challenge of producing functionally bilingual children within the context of the public school curriculum, grades K through 7. (CK)