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…

Aural-oral teaching procedures in elementary classical Greek and in Koine are accompanied by recommended texts. A survey of colleges and universities in America teaching first-year Greek points out the growing interest in this subject, and thus the need for new materials. Operating on the basic linguistic principle that all languages are…

THIS REPORT DISCUSSES IN DETAIL A MINIMAL 4-YEAR, INTERMEDIATE 6-YEAR, AND IDEAL 10-YEAR PROGRAM PROPOSED BY A 1959 CONFERENCE AS THE TYPES OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE THAT SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO THE ACADEMICALLY TALENTED LEARNER. BECAUSE THE PREADOLESCENT CAN LEARN EVEN THE MOST UNFAMILIAR SOUNDS BY IMITATION AND PRACTICE, AN IDEAL PROGRAM…

This guide for teaching English at the seventh grade level in German comprehensive schools contains the following major headings and subtopics: (1) Fundamentals and Postulates: student grouping problems, recommendations for a plan of instruction and use of materials, and learning goals in secondary education; (2) the Audiolingual Conception: a…