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Peer reviewedHarper, Frank B. W.; Kieser, W. E. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1977
A description of the EMLAT, its content, norms used, types of questions and results. Statistical tables are included. The conclusion is that the EMLAT has predictive validity for achievement in French language whether the method used is traditional or audio-lingual. The first two subtests contribute most as predictors. (AMH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, French, Junior High Schools
Download full textTrites, R. L.; Price, M. A. – 1977
A two-year study of "Learning Disabilities Found in Association with French Immersion Programming" indicated that children who encounter difficulty in primary French immersion programs may have a specific learning disability characterized by a maturational lag in the temporal lobe regions of the brain. In addition, it was found that…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Educational Research, Failure
Peer reviewedBrown, Gillian – TESOL Quarterly, 1978
Understanding spontaneous speech is a very difficult task for many foreign students. They must be taught to use all the ethnographic cues available to enable them to predict the likely content of a text. They must predict not only the factual content of spoken language but also the interactional structuring. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Training, Aural Learning
