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Windsor, Micheline – Audio-Visual Language Learning, 1976
In the university French program discussed here, students paraphrase literary passages. The analysis of their errors is used to measure their language competence and to indicate the level of language instruction needed. (Text is in French.) (MS)
Descriptors: French, Higher Education, Language Instruction, Language Skills
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Hummel, Robert D. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1976
This paper demonstrates how attention to developmental skills at every stage of language instruction enhances mastery of specific structural targets. A college German course in which a high degree of reading comprehension is the objective is used; Modified-Adjective Construction is the specific structural target. (CHK)
Descriptors: Adjectives, German, Higher Education, Language Instruction
Prado, Miguel A. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1971
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Aural Learning, Grammar Translation Method, Higher Education
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Seliger, Herbert W. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1975
This article examines the common assumption that the inductive method is more effective than the deductive one in foreign language instruction. Following a review of the relevant literature, a study to test the inductive method is described. Results show the deductive approach to be more effective. (CLK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Applied Linguistics, Deduction, Educational Research
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Lepke, Helen S. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1977
This article describes a Cognitive Preference Inventory, which translates a compilation of test data into a "cognitive style map" of an individual's learning preferences. A study noted here demonstrates how learning preferences and styles can be coordinated with teaching method for highest language learning achievement. (CHK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction
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Cohen, Andrew D.; Robbins, Margaret – Language Learning, 1976
A study of certain aspects of second language learning among three university students, all in an advanced ESL class at UCLA. An error analysis of written verb forms was undertaken. An examination of correction revealed that it was neither systematic nor enlightened enough to actually influence error production. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
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Mignault, Louis B. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1978
Suggestopedia is a learning technique which claims to provide students with a better and richer learning experience than is generally found in most educational systems. It also claims to accelerate the learning process by giving access to so-called unused "reserves of the mind." (SW)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation, Language Instruction
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Hill, L. A. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1978
If the study of foreign languages cannot be begun at the elementary level, it should be delayed until after adolescence, because adolescents between the ages of 10 and 18 have the greatest difficulty learning languages. At the tertiary level, emphasis should be on the reading skill. (CFM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Elementary Education
Stern, H. H. – Alberta Modern Language Journal, 1978
The value of language learning theory and research is discussed, and the need for content-related linguistic, sociolinguistic and cultural research, as well as treatment-related research on language teaching and learning, is emphasized. It has been only gradually, from about the mid-sixties and increasingly from the early seventies, that second…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Higher Education, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction
Manning, Phyllis J. – 1978
The language teaching method presented here is an inter-related set of techniques for teaching target comprehension skills directly to students on both university and high school levels. Three elements of the method are discussed: (1) the basics of a comprehension-based classroom; (2) the expanded speaking component; and (3) the expanded reading…
Descriptors: Comprehension, German, Higher Education, Intellectual Development
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Nord, James, R. – 1977
The foreign language instruction in the United States has followed a paradigm commonly called the "audio-lingual" method for almost twenty years. This paradigm is basically response-oriented and based upon structural linguistics and behavioral psychology. It focuses attention on speaking as the primary skill. It has not lived up to expectations.…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Aural Learning, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
Smith, Michael Sharwood – 1976
Pedagogical grammar is the presentation of grammatical information for teaching purposes. Two important distinctions are relevant here: reference books versus teaching grammars programmed into a course, and generalized versus specialized grammars, (depending on the extent to which they have been designed to meet specific teaching/learning…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Course Organization
Ahmad, K.; And Others – Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Bulletin, 1978
Some of the problems facing undergraduates learning Russian can be dealt with effectively by using an online computer. A Russian numerals drill program (RUNEX) is described which aims to help the student in tackling the morphological arbitrariness and some aspects of the syntax of the Russian numerals. Paradigms are given for the numerals five,…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Computational Linguistics, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs
Informationszentrum fuer Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg (West Germany). – 1971
This report of the first conference on foreign-language and language-teaching institutes, held in Bochum, Germany in 1970, contains articles on the following topics: (1) foreign-language education in the Soviet Union, (2) a working plan for programed Russian study, (3) foreign-language teaching and recent linguistic recommendations, (4) conditions…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Conference Reports, Educational Technology, English (Second Language)
Bourque, Jane M.; And Others – 1978
This brochure is presented in the context of the "back to basics" movement to draw attention to the fact that the basics of a good education are skills that will enable people to live more effectively in the world of the future and that study of a foreign language contributes to the development of these skills. Basics are defined as…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Benefits, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy
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