New educational curricula are regularly put into practice worldwide; and the issues related to curriculum design are frequently discussed from a pedagogical perspective. However, the processes involved in preparing a statewide English as a foreign language (EFL) curriculum are rarely elaborated from an inside view. As the experiences of program…

The present article introduces diversity (educational, social and multicultural) of children as a resource in language teaching. Two English teachers with a total of 105 children of their language classes participated in the teaching experiment that was part of a nationwide research and development project in Finland. The aim was to develop…

Seventeen years ago the author had left teaching secondary school Spanish at Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey, to create a FLES program at that same school. It's been a labor of love and a work in progress ever since. Along the way she has become convinced of a few things: an early start, long sequence, proficiency target and…

States the reasons for introducing the study of foreign languages as early as possible in the scholastic curriculum. (CFM)

The Foreign Language Innovative Curricula Studies (FLICS) was a three-year curriculum development project sponsored by Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The emphasis of Title III was upon innovative and exemplary programs which could be used to develop and demonstrate curriculum constructs most needed in various areas of the…

Examines several of the key decisions to be made when designing a program model for an elementary school foreign language program and relates them to the three most common forms of elementary school programs: FLES, FLEX, and immersion, and to the resources that may be available to a local community. (SED)

Describes the diversity of Latin programs from elementary through high school. Discusses five essential characteristics of Latin textbooks for the 21st century. (EKN)

LAPs are Learning Activity Packages. (DS)

Describes the inception and the activities of the Latin Cornerstone Project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This program set out to: (1) create a new elementary school Latin curriculum in the New York City public schools, and (2) develop Latin preparatory courses for elementary school teachers. (SED)

The benefits of collaboration between authors, classroom teachers, and curriculum specialists are presented in this report, which looks at the production and implementation of a German Foreign Language in Elementary School (FLES) curriculum for the third and fourth grades, joining content-based approaches together to form "Unser…

A colloquium convened at the Deutsches Haus in New York is summarized that brought together experts to discuss (1) the significance foreign languages have for other elementary school subjects, and (2) what function the other subjects serve for early foreign language learning. The following six topics, guided by session leaders, provided the…

A more detailed description of these programs appears in Foreign Language Annals" v3 n4, p592-595, May 1970. (DS)