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Strzalla, Kunibert – Fremdsprachenunterricht, 1974
Describes, using Teaching Unit 7 (Grade 9), the teacher's work in planning and preparing, as well as the designing of the instruction using teaching-aid units. Examples: teaching vocabulary, the development of speaking in dialogue, and teaching grammar. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Speech Communication
Mueller, Renate – Fremdsprachenunterricht, 1974
Presents among other things the didactic-methodological procedure in Teaching Units 3 and 4, Grade 10; the development of (predominantly monologue) speaking proficiency and proper translation into the foreign language, with special attention to measures to be taken immediately before and after watching the television program. (Text is in German.)…
Descriptors: Educational Television, Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Secondary Education
Dobson, Julia – Yelmo, 1973
Second and concluding part of a continued article. (SK)
Descriptors: Dialogs (Literary), Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Language Skills
Peer reviewedHolt, R. F. – Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers' Associations, 1975
The lack of oral testing in second language learning and the reasons for this lack are discussed. Examples of oral tests which have been developed are given. (RM)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Peer reviewedPimsleur, Paul – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1970
Speech presented at the Sixth Annual Whitewater Language Conference, Whitewater, Wisconsin, March 1970. Many of the ideas presented have more relevance for the United States than Canada. (DS)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Peer reviewedBlomberg, John – Hispania, 1969
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Experimental Teaching, Instructional Materials, Language Fluency
Raasch, Albert – Praxis des Neusprachlichen Unterrichts, 1978
The project "Threshold Level," initiated by the Council of Europe in 1976, is compared with "Francais fondamental," comparing their aims and their differences. Offered as an interim statement, the article leaves open the question of whether Francais fondamental should be replaced by the the Threshold Level. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Objectives, French, Language Instruction
Communicative versus Non-Communicative Language Practice in the Teaching of Beginning College French
Peer reviewedJoiner, Elizabeth G. – Modern Language Journal, 1977
This study was undertaken to determine the relative effectiveness of communicative and noncommunicative oral language practice in beginning college French. Two groups of students were compared regarding type of oral practice. Communicative practice students were superior to noncommunicative practice students in ability to send and receive messages…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, French, Higher Education, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedBotsman, P. B. – English Language Teaching, 1971
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Choral Speaking, Classroom Design, English (Second Language)
Balesdent, R. – Langues Modernes, 1976
This article discusses the problems involved in insisting upon oral proficiency in language instruction, to the detriment of other language skills. (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Language Skills, Language Teachers
Moreau, Pierre – Langues Modernes, 1976
This article constitutes a response challenging Balesdent's article which claimed that insistence on oral proficiency in language instruction is doomed to failure. (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Language Skills, Language Teachers
Ebneter, Theodor – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1976
This article proposes improving the use of the language lab in second language teaching by increasing the importance of actual spoken language in relation to structural exercises, which may be of an artificial nature. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/CLK)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Instruction, Language Laboratories, Language Proficiency
Peer reviewedWheeler, J. A. – Babel, 1970
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Classroom Techniques, Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Schrand, Heinrich – Sprachlabor audiovisuelle Unterricht, 1970
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Laboratories
Gurwitsch, P. B. – Fremdsprachenunterricht, 1975
On the basis of Soviet experience, types of work are sketched which are designed to develop the ability of the learner in dialogue and in group conversations. Russian and English examples illustrate the presentations. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Dialogs (Literary), English (Second Language), Group Activities
