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Download full textHENNING, WILLIAM A. – 1966
AN EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF PHONEME DISCRIMINATION TRAINING UPON THE ABILITY OF SUBJECTS TO DISCRIMINATE AMONG FRENCH PHONEMES AND TO DISCRIMINATE FRENCH PHONEMES FROM THEIR ENGLISH NEAR-EQUIVALENTS, TO IMITATE THE PRONUNCIATION OF FRENCH PHONEMES, AND TO MAKE VALID JUDGMENTS OF THEIR OWN PRONUNCIATION. THREE GROUPS OF…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, French, Language Laboratories, Language Research
HARRIS, ROBERT; MUELLER, THEODORE – 1966
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRAMED LEARNING IN AN AUDIOLINGUAL FRENCH COURSE WAS INVESTIGATED. THE EXPERIMENT INTENDED TO DETERMINE WHETHER A SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE WAS MORE EFFECTIVE THAN A COURSE TAUGHT UNDER TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM CONDITIONS, WHETHER THE PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS DROPPING OUT COULD BE REDUCED SIGNIFICANTLY, AND WHETHER STUDENT…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, College Language Programs, Dropout Rate, French
PIMSLEUR, PAUL; AND OTHERS – 1961
A NEED TO DETERMINE THE VALUE OF PRELIMINARY DISCRIMINATION TRAINING IN INCREASING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LANGUAGE LABORATORY PRACTICE ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF FRENCH SOUNDS HAS RESULTED IN THIS STUDY. DESCRIBED IN CHAPTER 2 ARE ELEVEN PILOT STUDIES, INVOLVING MORE THAN 1,000 STUDENTS, THAT PERMITTED THE DEVELOPMENT OF MATERIALS, TRAINING PROCEDURES,…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Contrastive Linguistics, Discrimination Learning, French
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Public Instruction, Harrisburg. – 1968
Teaching practices appropriate to 15 different treatments of secondary school intermediate French instruction and to 13 different treatments of secondary school intermediate German instruction are outlined and discussed. Treatments vary by (1) strategy (traditional; audiolingual or functional skills; and modified audiolingual or functional skills…
Descriptors: French, German, Instructional Materials, Laboratory Equipment
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Public Instruction, Harrisburg. – 1968
Teaching practices appropriate to 11 different treatments of secondary school beginning French instruction are outlined and discussed. Treatments vary by (1) strategy (traditional; audiolingual or functional skills; and modified audiolingual or functional skills enriched with grammar), (2) type of laboratory (audio passive or tape recorder; audio…
Descriptors: French, Instructional Materials, Laboratory Equipment, Language Guides
Smith, Philip D., Jr. – 1969
Beginning with a brief review of the growth of the audiolingual method of foreign language instruction in the United States of America, this paper examines implications and lessons drawn from an educational experiment in language instruction known as the Pennsylvania Report. The text of a memorandum to school administrators in Pennsylvania by the…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Conventional Instruction, Educational Experiments, French
Smith, Philip D., Jr.; Berger, Emanuel – 1968
This is a report on a statewide experiment conducted in Pennsylvania secondary schools of all types during the 1965-66 school year. The project sought to determine the effectiveness of various teaching strategies and of the language laboratory in the environment of the real school situation. Each of 61 first-year French classes and 43 first-year…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Experimental Programs, French, German
Smith, Philip D., Jr. – 1969
USOE Projects 5-0683 and 7-0133 (Pennsylvania Foreign Language Projects entitled "An Assessment of Three Foreign Language Teaching Strategies Utilizing Three Language Laboratory Systems" and "A Comparison Study of the Effectiveness of the Traditional and Audiolingual Approaches to Foreign Language Instruction Utilizing Laboratory…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Educational Strategies
Keating, Raymond F. – 1963
This report describes research into the effectiveness of the language laboratory in improving students' reading, listening and speaking skills in secondary school language programs. The experiment, involving some 5,000 students in 21 school districts of the Metropolitan School Study Council, was restricted to students of French. Student…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Equipment Evaluation, French, Language Instruction
Smith, Philip D., Jr.; Baranyi, Helmut A. – 1968
Implying the need for a reexamination of the theoretical bases for second language learning in the secondary school environment, this final report of a 2-year experiment, funded by the U.S. Office of Education and conducted in public secondary schools of Pennsylvania, involved 1,090 students of French or German in 1965-66 and almost 700 in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Curriculum Research
CARTON, AARON S. – 1966
CHAPTERS I AND II OF THIS EXTENSIVE REPORT STATE THE PROBLEM AND OBJECTIVES OF A PROJECT IN WHICH RECOGNITION IS GIVEN TO THE POSSIBILITY OF INSTRUCTING STUDENTS TO MAKE INFERENCES AS A MEANS OF EXTENDING THE LANGUAGE LEARNING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM, LANGUAGE LABORATORY, AND TEACHING MACHINE. FROM THIS BASIC CONCEPT EMERGED THREE PROBLEM AREAS…
Descriptors: Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Deduction, French
Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (TRANEL), 1992
This festschrift in honor of Rene Jeanneret, administrator of the Center for Applied Linguistics at Neuchatel University (Switzerland), contains the following papers (all papers are written in French with two exceptions): "A Walk with Rene Jeanneret Through the Garden of Applied Linguistics"; "--Thank You.--No Thank You!";…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Applied Linguistics, Arabic, Artificial Intelligence
