Outlines the undergraduate and graduate programs in Foreign Language Education at Florida State University. (FB)

This article outlines the background and the basic components of microteaching and describes it as a means of providing foreign language teaching trainees with an experience that will ease the transition from the laboratory situation to the actual teaching setting. Criticism of the method is included. (CLK)

This bibliography is divided into two main sections. The first section cites books and articles concerning training teachers of English as a second language. The second section refers to books and articles dealing specifically with microteaching. Entries include publications from a wide range of countries, and most have been published since 1965.…

Describes activities over the past three years of a group in Mexico dedicated to improving teacher training for teachers of French. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Training procedures used with foreign language interms in the Stanford Secondary Teacher Education Program during the summer of 1970 are described in this memorandum. Principal departures from the more traditional microteaching procedures allow students to work in more realistic and natural settings while practice-teaching and permit replacement…

Peer-group microteaching has been used for several years as an element of the foreign language methods course for Foreign Language Education students at the University of Minnesota. Students viewed the experience as the most important aspect of their pre-student-teaching courses and preparation experiences. The study is described. (CHK)

Describes an experiment carried out in a comprehensive school by students at a teachers' college in the Ruhr. Lists the positive and negative results, as learned from questioning the student teachers and the pupils. Preliminary conclusions are drawn in favor of including microteaching in the teacher-training curriculum. (Text is in German.)…

Discusses weaknesses in the present training curriculum for foreign language teachers in Germany. Discusses in some detail "interaction analysis" and "microteaching." Concludes with suggestions as to how research findings can be introduced into teacher-training seminars. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Discussion of micro-teaching, a scaled down teaching exercise for teacher trainees developed at Stanford University; a brief lesson consisting of one particular teaching skill and presenting one particular concept in the trainee's subject matter field is taught, followed by immediate supervisory and pupil feedback on the performance. (FWB)

Describes a training program for teachers of French at the Institut de Cooperation Pedagogique in Rabat, Morocco. The format was open-ended and emphasized the importance of feedback. Two sample minilessons are presented. (Text is in French.) (AM)

THE CREATION OF A TEST MEASURING THE CLASSROOM PERFORMANCE OF A LANGUAGE TEACHER AND THE VALIDATION OF THE TEST IN TERMS OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT WAS RECOMMENDED. DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEST WAS VIEWED AS A HELP IN THE CREATION OF A "PRACTICE-CENTERED" TRAINING CURRICULUM, AND THE TEST ITSELF WAS DESCRIBED AS A MEASURE THAT WOULD PROVIDE A MEANS TO…

An attempt to introduce assessment in a program of microteaching for pre-service Saudi-Arabian teaching led to the formulation of prescriptive categories of teacher behaviors. Behaviors involving "warm-up,""revision and linkage,""situational presentation,""modeling," and "class practice" were…

The training and supervision of teaching assistants in German at Indiana University is summarized. Training through orientation, course work, teaching, visitation, and observation is outlined. Special attention is directed to group observation techniques. The use of video tape recordings and veteran teaching assistants to improve the effectiveness…

A brief review of innovative approaches to the teaching of foreign languages during the 1960's is presented in this report. The potential use of media in current programs is emphasized in a discussion of: (1) creative application of technology in the solution of instructional problems, (2) television and related media, (3) observation via…

The report gives an account of a research and development project on Language Assistant Training. It shows the place of the Year Abroad in Modern Languages Degrees, and the need for training of English Language Assistants. After detailing the preparatory arrangements and timetable of a fieldwork visit to French schools to observe and record…