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Prado, Miguel A. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1971
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Aural Learning, Grammar Translation Method, Higher Education
Engelhardt, Klaus – 1974
This paper describes and explains a classroom exercise in French translation, with a view to promoting translation as an integral part of language instruction, particularly at the third-year college level when the student can be expected to have acquired an advanced knowledge of the parts of speech, of the grammatical distribution and their…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, College Language Programs, French, Grammar Translation Method
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Bourgeacq, Jacques A. – French Review, 1970
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Context, Educational Change
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Yalden, Janice – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Presents an overview of the language teaching situation in Canada's universities, and makes suggestions for its improvement. (AM)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Classical Languages, Grammar Translation Method, Higher Education
Feniczy, George – 1974
This paper describes a program at the Technical University of Budapest which is designed primarily to teach scientific English while at the same time improving everyday conversational English. The program combines the traditional textbook method and a new method whereby students in the first term read and translate technical material on a homework…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, English for Special Purposes, English (Second Language), Grammar Translation Method
Westphal, Patricia B. – 1979
The numerous innovations in foreign language teaching during the past ten years indicate that the profession is reaching toward syllabi in which students would learn to master and apply creatively a fairly limited body of material built around basic linguistic and cultural concepts. This theme is apparent in the syllabi, or subject-matter content…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Instruction, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Ingram, D.E. – 1977
The paper reports some of the results of a preliminary survey of the language proficiency of matriculation students of French in Britain and Australia. The technique used (especially the use of Chief Examiners' reports) is justified and the deficiencies that exist in current matriculation examinations are noted. In particular, the examinations are…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Admission (School), College Admission, College Students