This paper discusses the potential of language centres in higher education as laboratories for innovation. Despite their hybrid character as central service providers that are also defined by their teaching, their positioning at the academic periphery, and the lack of a mandate to do academic research, language centres still have an obligation to…

This report will discuss the process of evaluation for development in a collaborative project that integrated teaching between the Language Centre and the Law School at the University of Eastern Finland. The focus of this report will be on a model the authors devised for the purposes of developing teaching, called "E.A.S.Y,"…

In this paper, we explore how language centres can and need to seize the initiative in matters of internationalisation, language policy and supporting a multilingual and multicultural institutional environment. We identify and explore a number of challenges and opportunities, using the situation in the United Kingdom as our example, demonstrating…

One of the key recommendations of the Worton Review of Modern Foreign Languages provision in higher education in England (2009) is more effective collaboration between language centres and language departments. This paper presents a fully integrated model of such collaboration and develops recommendations for language centres and language…

A COMMITTEE OF 15 JUNIOR COLLEGE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS AND STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION REPRESENTATIVES FORMULATED GUIDELINES FOR TEACHING OF LANGUAGES IN JUNIOR COLLEGES. TWO OBJECTIVES OF LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION ARE ACQUISITION OF PRACTICAL SKILLS AND THE HUMANISTIC EXPERIENCE OF LANGUAGE LEARNING. THE JUNIOR COLLEGE SHOULD PROVIDE (1)…

RECENT TRENDS IN EDUCATION OF THE GIFTED ARE PRESENTED. PROVISIONS FOR GIFTED STUDENTS ARE TO CONTINUE AND EXPAND, HOWEVER EMPHASIS SHOULD BE SHIFTED FROM MERELY PROMOTING THE NEEDS OF THE GIFTED TO SOLIDIFYING THE GAINS ALREADY MADE IN THIS DIRECTION. ENRICHMENT BRINGS NEW DISCIPLINES INTO THE CURRICULUM, AND NEW COURSES ARE DEVELOPED IN SUCH…

This article describes how the system for coordinating the teaching of its beginning languages works at the Department of European Languages and Literature at the University of Hawaii. As well, it describes how some of its procedures have involved and affected the local high school and college community. (Author/RK)

NATHAN HALE HIGH SCHOOL OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, IS OPERATING ON A MODIFIED SCHEDULE CALLED "SIX ON SEVEN." A STUDENT REGISTERS FOR SEVEN PERIODS WHICH ARE ROTATED ON A 7-DAY CYCLE AND IS TAUGHT IN FOUR MORNING SESSIONS AND ONE LONG AFTERNOON SESSION. STUDENTS AND TEACHERS PROFIT FROM THIS SCHEDULING. THE PROGRAM HAS RESULTED IN SUCH NEW…

A 4-YEAR PROGRAM OF COOPERATIVE ACTIVITY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION WAS UNDERTAKEN BY 10 MIDWEST COLLEGES. THE BASIC OBJECTIVE OF THE PROGRAM WAS TO IMPROVE TEACHING AND CURRICULAR PRACTICES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE MAJORS AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING MAJORS. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF A FULL-TIME COORDINATOR, AN OFFICE FOR THE PROGRAM WAS…

TO CIRCUMVENT LARGE ENROLLMENTS AND A TEACHER SHORTAGE, UTILIZE MODERN EQUIPMENT, AND STILL RETAIN PERSONAL CONTACT WITH INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS, INSTRUCTORS AT ANTIOCH COLLEGE DESIGNED A NEW PROGRAM FOR FRENCH I, II, AND III CLASSES. THE CORE OF THE COURSE WAS A SET OF 39 FILMS WITH SCRIPTS WHICH SERVED AS A BASIS FOR CONVERSATIONS. ALL STUDENTS FROM…

STUDENTS AT ANTIOCH COLLEGE WHO PARTICIPATED IN A NEW PROGRAM IN FRENCH I, II, AND III RECEIVED THIS COURSE SYLLABUS WHICH EXPLAINS THE OBJECTIVES, METHODS, SCHEDULE OF CLASS ACTIVITIES, AND MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS IN READING FOR EACH LEVEL. THE SYLLABUS EMPHASIZES THE UNIQUE ASPECT OF THE PROGRAM WHICH IS THE HIGHLY INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION, EACH…

APPROXIMATELY 80 AMERICAN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS AND SPECIALISTS OFFERED THEIR OPINIONS AND PREDICTIONS OF WHAT THE STATE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING WOULD BE LIKE IN THE COLLEGES IN THE 1975 TO 1985 PERIOD, PARTICULARLY IN TERMS OF THE ELEMENTARY AND INTERMEDIATE LEVELS, THE LANGUAGE LABORATORY AND ELECTRONICS, AND THE TEACHER.…