In French teaching aimed toward active communication, the "dossier" is gaining importance as a medium. This contribution gives, among other things, an example (Topic: Position and role of the woman) for teaching advanced students. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Suggests new approaches to the problem of listening comprehension for advanced foreign language learners. (Author)

This reader is designed to introduce the student to the language of the modern Hebrew Israeli press. It assumes on the part of the student a knowledge of the basic elements of modern Hebrew structure and a basic vocabulary usually covered during the first two years of college courses in modern Hebrew. Each unit is glossed in English independently…

Describes the development, activities and evaluation of a mini-course for advanced-level high school Spanish students. (KM)

Advanced-level Spanish courses often lead outside everyday situations. Text, topic, language content and skill orientation form a complex of conditions for advanced learning. Consequences of significance for the learning process are discussed, with the topic "la emigracion actual" ("the present emigration") as a base. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Presented and discussed are samples of controlled rhetoric frames, similar in appearance to composition frames but dissimilar in that they require very few arbitrary choices. A few of the required choices are strictly grammatical ones, but a great number of boxes contain grammatically, stylistically, and semantically disparate words and phrases…

Using newspapers in FL teaching gives pupils experience reading original texts, and offers possibilities for vocabulary building. Here one must be aware of vocabulary differences between West and East Germany (FRG, GDR), particularly in ideological areas. The writer shows how vocabulary drills can be based on newspaper material. (Text is in…

The present volume is designed as a workbook for advanced learners of English as a second or foreign language which will train them through instruction and exercises to use an all-English dictionary. The contents are based on the second edition of Hornby, Gatenby, and Wakefield's "The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English," 1963, Oxford…

The use of classroom debates in ESL classes combines student interest and meaningful dialogue with library research, documentation and written reports. Students select debate propositions, research them, organize teams and conduct structured classroom debates. (CHK)