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Wullschlager, Orest – Schulpraxis, 1972
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Educational Experiments, French, Instructional Design
Peer reviewedBurstall, C. – Educational Research, 1975
This article attempted to discover whether it would be both feasible and educationally desirable to extend the teaching of a foreign language to pupils who represented a wider range of age and ability than those to whom foreign languages had traditionally been taught. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Educational Research, French, Language Instruction
Gamble, Cynthia J.; Smalley, Alan – Modern Languages, 1975
Discusses weaknesses in the Burstall report's evaluation of a pilot experiment in elementary-to-secondary French instruction. (AM)
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Elementary Secondary Education, FLES, French
Download full textMilwaukee Public Schools, WI. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1966
A program designed to increase the effectiveness of foreign language laboratory utilization by employing language laboratory aides in a city high school which has a large concentration of culturally disadvantaged pupils is described in this report. By providing laboratory aides, teachers have more opportunity to give individual attention to pupils…
Descriptors: Differentiated Staffs, Educational Experiments, Instructional Innovation, Instructional Program Divisions
Burstall, Clare – 1973
A 10-year educational experiment being conducted in England in which 18,000 elementary school students are taught French by non-specialist teachers is described. The methods used rely extensively on audiovisual materials. Discussion focuses on the following factors affecting the program: (1) sex of the student, (2) socioeconomic status, (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Audiovisual Aids, Community Attitudes, Educational Experiments
Breton, Lucien – 1970
An experiment in programed language instruction based on the "Basic French" method of T. Mueller and H. Niedzielski is reviewed in this paper. Seventy-two civil servants participated in the program which provided for 60 hours of taped instruction. Experiment description, objectives, modifications, and a review of the structuring of lessons 1-20…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Course Evaluation, Educational Experiments, Educational Objectives
Bennett, J. V.; And Others – 1972
This evaluation report presents the details and results of an experimental, compensatory language program designed to improve the standard English language facility of young aboriginal children on the assumption that this would contribute to improvement in reading and other aspects of academic performance. The pilot program was administered during…
Descriptors: Child Language, Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Experiments
Lum, John Bernard – 1971
This study investigates which teaching style-Chinese bilingual or English as a second language--leads to greater oral English maturity and how useful the Chinese language is in helping a non-English-speaking Chinese person learn oral English. In the English-as-a-second-language method, the student's native language is used sparingly to avoid…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Chinese, Chinese Americans
