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Peer reviewedMoody, Marvin D. – French Review, 1975
After a brief discussion of language teaching methodology, a re-evaluation of goals and expectations in the teaching of French is proposed. (PMP)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, French, Language Instruction, Language Programs
Leupold, Eynar – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1975
After analyzing the speech-act theory (Austin & Searle) with examples from French, the article attempts to state the teaching goals more precisely. Studying the findings of pragmalinguistics can help to minimize the discrepancy between the communication situation in the foreign country and the classroom situation. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Objectives, Language Instruction
Zapp, Franz Josef – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1976
Refers to a critique of FL teaching at Secondary Grade 2; discusses questions of teaching objectives, organization and content of curricula, sequence of foreign languages taught, and effects of the upper level reforms on Secondary Grade 1. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Language Instruction, Modern Language Curriculum, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedGermain, Claude – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1975
Discusses the principles of behavioral objectives and strategies for achieving them. (Text is in French.) (RM)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Educational Objectives, Educational Strategies, Language Instruction
Margarito, Maria Grazia – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1978
Discusses the question of whether to eliminate the longrespected but now disdained dictation from the foreign language classroom. It is concluded that the dictation may be saved if its purpose is changed. (CFM)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, French, Italian, Language Instruction
Nissen, Rudolf – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1978
Considers the functions that norms might have in the context of foreign language teaching and learning, with special reference to teaching English. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Norms
Peer reviewedCovington, Michael A. – Classical Outlook, 1975
Offers a humanistic rationale for the study of Latin and recommends the adoption of modern language teaching methods as better suited than the traditional approach to the realization of humanistic and aesthetic goals. (KM)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Humanistic Education, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedRead, W. M. – Classical Outlook, 1974
States that the building of English vocabulary is the most important contribution foreign language study can make to an education. (CK)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Educational Objectives, English, Language Instruction
Boulouffe, J. – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1976
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)
Descriptors: Classification, Educational Objectives, Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Ryder, Frank G. – Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (Special Joint Issue with Bulletin of the Assn. of Depts. of English, No. 50 Sep 76), 1976
The value of the study of foreign languages and literatures is discussed, and its attractions for the student of today described. (RM)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Enrollment Influences, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSavaiano, Geraldine – Hispania, 1972
Descriptors: Administrators, Degree Requirements, Educational Objectives, Grammar
Strasheim, Lorraine A. – NASSP Bull, 1970
Foreign language teaching should have as one of its principal objectives the development in the student of an awareness of the different thought patterns prevailing among different national groups. (CK)
Descriptors: College Preparation, Educational Objectives, Language Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Minardi, Giovanni – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1978
The article attempts to show that the emphasis in foreign language teaching should not be on developing communicative competence but on developing reading skills. (CFM)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Objectives, Language Instruction, Reading Instruction
Ziegesar, Detlef von – Englisch, 1976
Presents for analysis actual texts and texts specially written for teaching, arriving at a basis for a typology of actual texts. Defines teaching aims using such texts, and develops, from a TV program, a teaching unit used in a Karlsruhe school. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Textbook Content
Kuhn, Michel – Education and Culture, 1975
Considered the development of multi-media language courses, criteria for the formulation of the system as a whole and for each teaching module, and elements for media classification applied to a unit-credit system in modern languages. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Objectives, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction
