This article presents the quantitative and qualitative results of a nationwide survey of the perceptions of faculty, alumni, and students regarding the contribution to the undergraduate Spanish major curriculum of various types of courses and experiences. Quantitative results indicated that all participants valued the importance of study abroad as…

This study describes how oral language was assessed in an advanced-level college foreign language (FL) conversation course. Learners used the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Proficiency Guidelines to guide self-analyses of their oral production at intervals throughout the course. The intent was to provide opportunities for…

Six units of instructional materials in conversational Spanish are presented. The audiolingual course is designed to be completed in 90 to 120 hours and intended to be used with a set of correlated tape recordings which may be purchased from the School for International Training. Lessons contain a variety of structured exercises including (1)…

An approach to foreign language instruction was worked out to meet the needs of high school students who were preparing to participate in an international exchange program with French students. The approach uses a combination of the notional-functional syllabus and the regular grammar and vocabulary lessons. Examples in French are provided…

Sixty-four Spanish lessons for use in a televised beginning college Spanish program are presented in this text. Lessons include exercises, verb study, conversation, vocabulary development, and grammatical analysis. Fundamental to the course is the belief that mastery of grammar can only be achieved through conversation. As a consequence, lessons…

A set of Peace Corps materials for introductory Spanish contains 19 units on aspects of Spanish verbs: the verb "estar"; the present tense of regular verbs; the use of "necesitar" and "ir" with infinitives; "querer,""poner,""tener que" and the infinitive; the verb "ser"; the…

This paper describes an experiment in team teaching involving 25 students in a Spanish language class on the high school level. Team teaching was found to be particularly suited to vocabulary presentation, testing, culture teaching, grammar explanations, dramatization of stories and fables, pronunciation drills, and classroom conversation. It was…

This course, designed by the Foreign Service Institute in 1957, was prepared to train officers of the Foreign Service and of the United States government agencies who are involved in foreign affairs and who need to learn to speak Spanish. The course is designed to be taught by a native speaker of Spanish. Normally, the class is limited to six…

This course, designed by the Foreign Service Institute in 1957, was prepared to train officers of the Foreign Service and of the United States government agencies who are involved in foreign affairs and who need to learn to speak Spanish. The course is designed to be taught by a native speaker of Spanish. Normally, the class is limited to six…

This third volume in a series of four was prepared as an intensive language course in Spanish for Foreign Service Officers and other United States government agencies involved in foreign affairs who need to learn to speak Spanish. Materials in this text include: basic sentences, drills and grammar, pattern drills, conversation stimulus, readings,…

This final volume in a series of four texts was prepared as an intensive language course in Spanish for Foreign Service Officers and other United States government agencies involved in foreign affairs who need to learn to speak Spanish. This volume differs from the first three primarily in that it is geared to advanced students whose…

This annotated bibliography lists books printed and published in the United States of America for use in teaching Spanish and Portuguese in high school and college by students whose first language is English. As a sequel to the Arjona "A Bibliography of Textbooks of Spanish Published in the United States (1795-1939)," this publication contains…

This teaching manual is designed for the Spanish language training of Peace Corps volunteers serving in Chile, and focuses on daily communication skills needed in that context. It contains 12 topical lessons outlining targeted language and communication competencies, suggested classroom activities, phrase and vocabulary lists, grammar and usage…

This guide is designed for the Spanish language training of Peace Corps workers in Chile and reflects daily communication needs in that context. The workbook contains a series of sentence completion exercises at the intermediate to advanced level, notes and exercises on metric system conversion, verb/substantive lists, specialized vocabulary lists…