In this article the author examines the language of advertising and the uses to which a teacher can put it. (Author/RK)

This directory provides data concerning teaching staff and language programs in Illinois' schools. The publication is presented in two parts: Public Schools, and Independent, Parochial and Private Schools. Both sections present data concerning: (1) county, school and district number, name of teacher, and language(s); and (2) name of teacher,…

Author discusses the advantages and disadvantages to using the Sullivan Language Materials. (GB)

Address given at the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages held in New York, New York, on April 14, 1972. (DS)

This article describes a university language and research program which focuses on the instruction of modern languages to non-language majors. The facility, personnel, teaching methods, and evaluation procedures are described. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

This article outlines ways of helping students to develop informal or expressional features at the non-verbal level of communication. (DB)

Report of a one-day conference held jointly by the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language and the Modern Language Association (Great Britain) on May 13, 1972, in London, England. (DS)

This collection of five papers from the Anglo-American Seminar on the Teaching of English deals with language standards, common attitudes toward language, the relationship between linguistics and the teaching of English, and the linguistic component of the preparation of the English teacher. Albert H. Marckwardt surveys the history of language…

Authors take a new look at composition, spelling, and handwriting skills on a nationwide basis in the elementary schools and report on the current situation. (GB)

Landes (1975) reviewed research studying adult-child linguistic interactions. Evidence that the language which adults use in addressing young children is different from that used in addressing adults and that parent-child interaction patterns change with the increasing age and language skills of the child has important implications for the study…

This introductory text for Persian was designed for use in intensive Peace Corps training, with emphasis on the field of teaching English as a foreign language. The text includes an introduction which gives the language instructor a brief outline of how to teach the course. Each lesson consists of a dialogue followed by pattern practices of…

THE TEACHING OF MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES (FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, RUSSIAN, SPANISH, AND ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE) IN THE AMERICAN PUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS HAS BEEN REVOLUTIONIZED SINCE WORLD WAR II, WITH THE DEMAND FOR NEAR-NATIVE CONTROL OF A SECOND LANGUAGE FOR COMMUNICATION. THE PUBLIC FELT THAT THIS NEED MUST BE MET, ALONG…

A course given to help German teachers of English master English phrases used frequently in the classroom is described. It was found that initial contextualization followed by language laboratory work enabled teachers to assimilate phrases best. (CHK)

Navaho Indians learning English tend to use two versions of the language: classroom English and an informal dialect spoken outside school. The sounds of Navaho are imposed on spoken English, and the phonological deviations produce morphological and syntactical errors. Mistakes in verb tense and in singular and plural suffixes are common. The value…