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Elaboration d'unites capitalisables en fonction d'un niveau-seuil (Development of Functional Units in a Threshold Level Context).
Lohezic, Bernard; Perusat, Jean-Marie – Francais dans le Monde, 1979
Outlines sample exercises developed in a program designed to teach minimal (threshold level) competencies based on students' communication needs and the concept of a notional syllabus. (AM)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Objectives, French, Language Instruction
Student-Perceived Communicative Needs in the Community College.
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Hendrickson, James M. and Denk, Walter Josef – Hispania, 1988
Compares priorities of language functions (1) between community college and university studnets; (2) between students enrolled in traditional language courses and those in conversational language courses; and (3) among students in first-term French, German, and Spanish at a community college. Results are presented in six tables. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Community Colleges, French
Student-Perceived Communication Needs: Infrastructure of the Functional/Notional Syllabus.
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And Others; Harlow, Linda L. – Foreign Language Annals, 1980
Sets out the advantages of a functional/notional syllabus as opposed to a grammatical syllabus. Presents topics around which to build a functional/notional syllabus in teaching college-level French. Makes suggestions, based on students' perception of their communicative needs, for the sequencing of these materials. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Design, Curriculum Guides, French
Le francais a l'elementaire: francais-immersion. Programme d'etudes (Elementary French: French Immersion. Program of Study).
Fallon, Gerald; Morse, Marie – 1987
Alberta's curriculum guide for French immersion programs outlines the programs' rationale and objectives and the content of the oral language, reading, and writing components for six years. An introductory section discusses the aim of developing language competence and recent theory on competence. The role of language as an instrument of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Difficulty Level, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
Linguistic Insights in Applied Linguistics. Collection d'"Etudes linguistiques," No. 14. Papers from the Neuchatel Colloquium in Applied Linguistics in collaboration with AIMAV, AILA, CILA, and the University of Neuchatel (2nd, May 25-26, 1973).
Corder, S. P., Ed.; Roulet, E., Ed. – 1974
Papers from the 1973 Neuchatel Colloquium in Applied Linguistics are presented. Contents are as follows: "Karttunen's Types of Implication in English and German: A Contrastive Study," W. Abraham; "The Relevance of Generative Semantics for Language Teaching," R. Dirven; "'Be' plus 'ing' Revisited," H. Adamczeski; "The So-Called Deep Structures and…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis
Francais fonctionnel et travailleurs etrangers: Experiences d'oral avec des debutants (Functional French and Foreign Workers: Experiments in Spoken Languages with Beginners). Melanges pedagogiques.
Pieron, C. – 1978
Teaching functional French is discussed with instructors of groups of foreign workers in mind. It takes as its starting point two "modules" for teaching French ("the highway code at driving school" and "starting and keeping small talk going") and uses them to exemplify some of the difficulties involved in the development and classroom use of…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation
The Concept of Core Language and the Notional-Rhetorical Approach to Second Language Teaching.
Chellappan, K. – International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, 1981
This paper focuses on the mechanism by which the successful learner acquires a second language. The author postulates a core language, the common core of the speaker's native and target languages, and states that the second language becomes an extension of this common core. Whatever language-specific features are added while acquiring the second…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dravidian Languages, French
Proceedings of the National Conference on Individualized Instruction in Foreign Languages (2nd, Ohio State University, October 24-25, 1980).
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Ervin, Gerard L., Ed. – 1981
Papers in this volume on individualized instruction in foreign languages include: (1) "Individualized Instruction and 'Back to Basics': Are They Compatible?" by Howard B. Altman; (2) "Individualized Instruction in French at Northwestern University" by Margaret Sinclair Breslin; (3) "An Individualized French Program for…
Descriptors: African Languages, Arabic, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conversational Language Courses