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…

LANGUAGES SHOW CHARACTERISTIC DIFFERENCES IN THE WAY IN WHICH THEY ORGANIZE OBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE AND THESE DIFFERENCES ARE REFLECTED IN THE FORMAL AND SEMANTIC PATTERNING OF EACH LANGUAGE. A CONTRASTIVE APPROACH TO LANGUAGE LEARNING WHICH PAYS PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO POINTS OF FORMAL AND FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ELEMENTS OF THE NATIVE…

Student-produced slide shows are found to be an effective way to develop listening and speaking skills for the advanced German student who may be bored with other oral exercises. (CHK)

Describes an advanced programed course Deutsch sprechen -- Deutsch verstehen'' (Speak German -- Understand German) developed at Kiel University, West Germany. (RS)

Four phases of teaching are described: (1) motivation; (2) questions on the text and on particular words; (3) expansion exercises--examples from the text, with quiz-exercises for repetition; (4) transfer, in which the student is led to contradict and to give examples of his own. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)