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The foreign language teacher cannot rely simply on linguistic theory as it stands today. Foreign language teaching calls for its own linguistic theory. However, it should be possible, in constructing a FL teaching grammar, to integrate such a teaching theory with current linguistic theory. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Discusses the relation between the linguistic and the FL-teaching aspects of grammatical problems, using as an example "parler a quelqu'un" vs. "penser a quelqu'un." Recent attempts by linguists to differentiate between the two verb groups are discussed and suggestions are given for teaching. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

After analyzing the speech-act theory (Austin & Searle) with examples from French, the article attempts to state the teaching goals more precisely. Studying the findings of pragmalinguistics can help to minimize the discrepancy between the communication situation in the foreign country and the classroom situation. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Discusses the role speech-act theory can play in foreign language teaching. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

The natural process of learning language is to concentrate on what we mean, not only on how we are saying it. What we mean is dependent upon the context in which we speak. This context in turn depends on the society or the speech-community in which our speech act takes place. To be a member of a speech community is to know what language behavior…

This article is intended to help teachers of German classes explain gender-number-case inflection. As a nominal is expanded from pronoun to noun phrase, inflections of the noun and adjectives relieve the burden of distinction from the determiner, increase the number of inflectional forms and provide redundancy for easy communication. (CHK)

Evaluates tenses as to (1) communicative importance, (2) frequency, and (3) range. Under (1), finds actual tense less important than accompanying adverbials and extra-linguistic factors. Discusses chief difficulties appearing in use and interpretation of past tenses, and how the results of linguistic research may help to deal with them. (Text is…

This article traces the history of several themes in applied linguistics and to show the relationships between linguistic theory and the sciences concerned with the learning and teaching of languages. Interest in word frequency statistics is discussed in particular. (Text is in Italian.) (CFM)

This article outlines the linguistic, technological, and methodological criteria for language laboratory use as specified by CILA (Swiss Interuniversity Commission for Applied Linguistics). (Text is in French.) (CDSH/CLK)

This article discusses the nature of translation as a linguistic phenomenon, and the pros and cons of its application to second language instruction. (CLK)

Discusses development and objectives of language educational centers concerned with the signigicance of applied linguistics in the development of second language learning theory. (RL)

This paper proposes that theoretical studies of the Chinese resultative construction can make it easier to teach and learn. Several varied linguistic approaches are necessary to the language teacher. Pedagogical analyses of data are valued when based on different relevant theoretical points, elucidating meaning, function, purpose and form of data.…

Advocates the use in language teaching of different but complementary approaches to language description rather than strict adherence to a single theoretical model. Various linguistic descriptions of indirect object structures are given as support for the thesis. (KM)

Foreign language teaching concentrates on phonology, morphology and syntax, to the neglect of semantics and vocabulary. The method of teaching meaning that is proposed here is based on the concepts of "contextual" semantics. An experiment in the use of the method is also briefly described. (KM)