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Hanna, Sami A.
This paper investigates the difference in achievement among 20 University of Utah students of modern standard Arabic. One group of 11 students followed an intensive eight-week summer course, and a second group of nine students studied the same course during a regular academic year. Also reported on is the correlation between achievement and…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Arabic, College Language Programs, Intensive Language Courses
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Aronson, Howard I. – Slavic and East European Journal, 1973
Discusses the problems of teaching Russian in American universities. (LG)
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Higher Education, Language Fluency, Language Instruction
Twaddell, W. Freeman – Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1972
Address given at the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages held in New York, New York, on April 14, 1972. (DS)
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Educational Objectives, Employment Opportunities, Language Instruction
Hieke, Adolf E. – 1977
Language laboratories are especially neglected at the intermediate and advanced levels of foreign language learning. Teachers fail to avail themselves of an important teaching tool at a critical point, when the more mechanical aspects of assimilating the target language should give way to gaining an actual communicative competence in it. At the…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, College Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Higher Education
FARRAR, RONALD D. – 1968
THIS EXPERIMENT TESTS CERTAIN INNOVATIONS IN THE PRESENTATION OF A FRENCH COURSE. THE COURSE COVERED, IN ONE SEMESTER, THE MATERIAL NORMALLY GIVEN IN TWO, AND WAS INTENDED TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS' PROFICIENCY BY INTENSIVE CONTACT AND STILL MAINTAIN THE STANDARDS OF FORMAL EXPRESSION AND GRAMMAR. IT WAS GIVEN TWO SUCCESSIVE HOURS PER DAY FOR FIVE…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Educational Experiments, French, Instructional Innovation
Stansfield, Charles W. – 1975
A study was conducted in Jalapa, Mexico, to test the hypothesis that a student of average and below average language aptitude may have greater difficulty with the accelerated pace of learning in an intensive program. The Modern Language Association Cooperative Spanish Test was administered to the eight beginning students enrolled in the Jalapa…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude, College Language Programs, Higher Education
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Henderson, John A. – Babel: International Journal of Translation, 1976
Concentrates on the problems arising at the undergraduate level concerning elaborating strategies to teach interpreting skills. (CLK)
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Interpreters, Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Ingram, David E. – 1978
This thesis clarifies the role of the applied linguist in the language and language teaching sciences with particular application to advanced language learning that takes place after five years of study. Students' deficiencies identified at matriculation together with the psychological and practical needs of the students and their society identify…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, College Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Influences
Boulanger, C. – 1972
This article deals with the issue of gaining proficiency in oral expression in a second language. A functional approach to teaching oral proficiency is outlined, an approach which focuses on the audience as a determining factor in the speaker's linguistic output. Claims in the article are based on an experiment in the teaching of oral proficiency…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Grammar
Farrington, Brian; Richardson, Catherine – Audio-Visual Language Journal, 1977
A set of language laboratory materials currently being tested in eight Scottish universities is described. The aim of the completely self-taught course is to increase the student's exposure to the language as a whole. The unity of each tape is based on the communicative function of the introductory text. (AMH)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, College Language Programs, French, Higher Education
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Gomes da Costa, B. – 1970
This paper describes an experimental testing program in England which parallels a broader, 1967 study concerning second language acquisition in the United States. The earlier study, conducted by John Carroll, concentrated on determining proficiency of language majors in five foreign languages. This experiment limits the field of study to German…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, College Language Programs, German
EDDY, FREDERICK D. – 1959
IN AN ATTEMPT TO CODIFY A PROFESSIONAL OVER-ALL POLICY STATEMENT, THE 1959 NORTHEAST CONFERENCE ON THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES ASKED ITS FOUR WORKING COMMITTEES TO DETERMINE, AS AN INTERIM GOAL, HOW TO MAKE MAXIMALLY EFFECTIVE THE 6-YEAR SEQUENCE OF STUDY FROM GRADE 9 THROUGH THE SECOND YEAR OF COLLEGE. THE COMMITTEE REPORTS COMPRISE THIS…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Classical Languages
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Kjellmer, Goran – Moderna Sprak, 1968
Outlined in this report developed at Goteborgs University are the construction and administering details for a test designed to measure passive proficiency in pronunciation of English as a second language. The phonemic choice, rhythm and intonation, and phonetic analysis factors of pronunciation are evaluated. A statistical correlation of the…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, College Language Programs, English (Second Language), Intonation
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. – 1968
This report summarizes a study published in 1967 by Harvard University which assessed foreign language proficiency of U.S. college seniors majoring in French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Russian. The measures used were the following: the MLA Foreign Language Proficiency Tests (Form A): Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing; the Modern…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Audiolingual Skills, College Language Programs, College Students
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DeFrancis, John – Foreign Language Annals, 1971
Descriptors: Aptitude, Chinese, College Language Programs, Course Descriptions
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