Address given at the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages held in New York, New York, on April 14, 1972. (DS)

Discusses requirements for the new People's University Certificate in English and finds improvement in the more precise statement of learning goals and system of course offerings and in the treatment of such items as "language appropriateness,""spontaneous language skills" and area studies. (IFS/WGA)

CRITERIA FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING ARE FORMULATED. COMPLETE LESSONS ARE DESIGNED TO COMPLEMENT LABORATORY OR TEXTBOOK LEARNING. DRILLS FOR BUILDING LANGUAGE SKILLS ARE INCLUDED. LABORATORY PROGRAMS MUST BE CAREFULLY PLANNED. TAPES PROFESSIONALLY MADE TO GO WITH TEXTBOOKS ACHIEVE MORE THAN DO REGULAR LESSON TAPES.

Paper presented at the 1972 Summer Seminar of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) held June 19-23, 1972, at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado. (DS)

It is maintained that if foreign language learning is included at the elementary school level, it should be done to make it possible for the large majority of the pupils to reach a certain minimum objective in secondary education. And, elementary schools must reach one common objective which is closely related to the minimum objective of secondary…

Current educational research and possible directions for the improvement of second language education in schools are discussed in the light of current Canadian political and economic influences. The Ontario Ministry of Education has proposed three levels of proficiency in French as reasonable objectives to be achieved by secondary schools in their…

Attention is focused on the 10-year (grades 3-12) Spanish sequence in the Hackensack schools. Program expenses, student test scores, and a subjective evaluation of the project's effectiveness are included. Also discussed are enrollment trends, students who discontinue studying Spanish, the transference value of language skills, and the reasons for…

Speech delivered at the New Jersey Foreign Language Teachers Association Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, November 6, 1970. (DS)

This thesis clarifies the role of the applied linguist in the language and language teaching sciences with particular application to advanced language learning that takes place after five years of study. Students' deficiencies identified at matriculation together with the psychological and practical needs of the students and their society identify…

Policy statement of the Modern Language Teachers' Association of Victoria (Australia). (DS)

Gives reasons for the failure of FLES programs in most schools, and proposes the home-school language switch program in which English-speaking students are given their kindergarten, first grade, and most of second, third, and fourth grade instruction in a foreign language. (Author/DR)

This article is a study of attempts made to adapt B. S. Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives to foreign language teaching. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/CLK)