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Peer reviewedChlebek, Agnes; Coltrinari, Helen – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1977
Details of arrangements, staff and program of two high school summer immersion French courses in Switzerland and France are presented. Suggestions are made for improvements. Students showed a remarkable increase in comprehension, vocabulary, and confidence in speaking French; attitudes were positive, students became more responsible and mature.…
Descriptors: French, Immersion Programs, Intensive Language Courses, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedBenseler, David P. – Foreign Language Annals, 1978
A description is provided of Washington State University's undergraduate intensive language course. The course, designed primarily for freshmen, provides classroom instruction for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week during the 8-week summer session. Course goals, content, and methodology are covered. (SW)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Language Programs, German, Higher Education
Schneider, Gerd K. – Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1977
The Middlebury Undergraduate German Language Program is described as a model for a Total Immersion Foreign Language Training program. German is the language of communication, both in and outside of the classroom. Lesson structure, materials and testing are described. (CHK)
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Course Descriptions, German, Higher Education
Download full textLeamon, M. Phillip – Proceedings: Pacific Northwest Conference on Foreign Language, 1967
A brief description of the purposes of the University's honors program of intensive language study abroad for high school students is given here. Capsule descriptions of the participating student, cooperating high schools, 8-week study sessions, and types of financial assistance are also included. (AR)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College School Cooperation, High Schools, Honors Curriculum
Sacks, Norman P. – Hispania, 1967
An intensive summer Spanish course conducted at the University of Wisconsin in 1965 for graduate social science majors studying in the Latin American area studies program is described. After outlining the details of the experimental course based on the "Modern Spanish" package and discussing its special implications for modern language…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Area Studies, Audiolingual Methods, Graduate Students
PDF pending restorationStrothmann, F. W.; Lohnes, Walter F. W. – 1963
This is the final report on the National Defense Language Institute conducted in Germany during the summer of 1963 for elementary and secondary school teachers of German. It is recommended that the program be repeated, with certain adjustments. The Institute held second- and third-level programs. It was concluded that the participants' teaching…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, German, Higher Education
San Leandro Unified School District, CA. – 1968
This narrative report of a 1967 summer institute, designed to explore one of the ways of transmitting to future leaders an awareness, understanding, and tolerance for cultural differences in peoples from other nations, describes the relative effectiveness of certain methods, techniques, and procedures used in teaching experimental groups of high…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Activities, Cultural Context, Cultural Enrichment
