Gives a typology of various possible approaches to grammar teaching, involving grammars for learning, for skill acquisition, and those which look at course organization, media and teaching aids. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Recent advances in the field of descriptive linguistics have produced not only an entirely new grammatical terminology, but also new definitions of traditional grammatical concepts. The result has been a somewhat bewildering profusion and confusion of overlapping terms. The present glossary is the result of several years of research and of…

A discussion of the integration of magazines and newspapers into the language class, as products and signs of our times. The objective is to put the student in contact with a human and linguistic reality from another culture. A method of vocabulary and grammar instruction is presented. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Elective English courses in grades 7 to 10 of 10-grade "general educational" polytechnical schools in the GDR are facing increased demands. Student testing has revealed increased attention by teachers to the strengthening of lexical and grammatical knowledge, development of free-variation procedures, and introduction of teaching aids.…

Various games are described for the teaching of English to adults. The focus of the language and learning games described is on samples of language constructions as for example "may have + infinitive" or the question pattern with "do/does". (IFS/WGA)

Presented at the 4th symposium of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics, Quebec, Canada, May 18, 1973. (HW)

Supports the claim that grammatical explanation is important in expediting audiolingual instruction, especially at the adult level. (RS)

This article describes a series of videotapes on German grammar developed for beginning students. (Author/NCR)

An annotated list of 29 games that can be used in the foreign language classroom is provided. An introductory listing of all the game titles gives their application (vocabulary and/or grammar), a rating (on a three-point scale) of the amount of preparation time required of the teacher, and the time required to play the game. Annotations follow for…

Cautions that the chief value of programmed instruction is in drills and reviews. Then describes the development of a program in the use of the simple present and the present progressive, with special attention to its structure, teaching aids and the functions of sketches and tests. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

The four parts in this section present: (1) an advertisement based on the literary style of Emile Zola; (2) exercises designed to practice expressions of similarity and difference; (3) the transcript of a discussion on the problem of swamps; and (4) variations on the shopkeeper-customer dialogue. (AM)

This section discusses ways to teach the use of "ne...que,""seulement," and "seul,"; describes a "find the mistakes" game that can be used to stimulate discussion; suggests the telegram as a pedagogical tool; and provides novel ideas for using commercial advertising for language exercises. (AM)

The materials for this course in the Ait Mgild dialect of Tamazight, one of the three main languages into which the Berber dialects of Morocco are grouped, include this textbook, 32 tape recordings, and 260 colored slides keyed to the lessons. Lesson material on each tape does not exceed 26 minutes. The remaining four to eight minutes of the tape…

This text was developed to enable students of Spanish to use idiomatic expressions from the early learning stages to the more advanced levels. Students can use idiomatic Spanish as soon as they have learned regular -ER, -AR, and -IR verbs, and as they become more proficient, they can apply their knowledge of the irregular verbs in studying other…