Discusses the state of foreign language teaching in the secondary schools over the past 30 years and offers speculations on its future. (EKN)

Refers to a critique of FL teaching at Secondary Grade 2; discusses questions of teaching objectives, organization and content of curricula, sequence of foreign languages taught, and effects of the upper level reforms on Secondary Grade 1. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

It is possible to make the People's College certificate the basis for high-school graduation certification at the end of Grade 10 for French as a second language, or else to complete with it the courses in French as a second or third foreign language, which do not begin until grade 11. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Suggests that foreign language teachers can demonstrate that their subject is not a "frill" by incorporating basic math, language, and study skills into their daily lessons. (SJL)

In the fall of 1973, an experimental college course designed exclusively for students with a background of high school German was initiated at the University of Texas at Arlington. The course was limited to those who placed out of the first semester but not high enough for the third semester on the UTA placement test. The course was found to be…

Presents an overview of the Chinese language teaching situation in Victoria, Australia. (KM)

This essay presents a model for an intensive course in French designed for pupils of approximately age 16. The student devotes himself for two periods of 14 days each, morning and afternoon, exclusively to learning the foreign language. Each intensive phase is followed by half a school year of a language training phase. (Text is in German.)…

The papers focus on an overview of current developments, language needs of secondary students, and the status of syllabus and examination changes. In addition to the opening and closing addresses and reports from 15 informal workshops, six papers are provided on such topics as reasons for learning a foreign language (A.R. Clarke and others), the…

Gives lists, under the names of the various states of the Federal Republic of Germany, of the most important state institutions and publications concerned with curricula, chiefly in English and French, but also in Spanish, Italian, Russian and Dutch. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Describes the subjects taken by pupils who took part in the 1984 Assessment of Performance Unit Age 15 Science Survey in Great Britain. Reports that the most common subjects, in descending order of frequency, were English, mathematics, geography, history, art, French, physics, biology, and chemistry. Gives detailed accounts of the science and…

Describes modifications to the four original requirements of the foreign language program at the International School of the Americas, an experimental school located 150 miles from the Mexican border. (SR)

Following introduction of a reform program by the Ministry of Culture in the FRG, French has slumped in the upper level gymnasium curriculum. Reasons for this are discussed, including students' opinions. Suggests less rigid requirements and more generous grading policies. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

The expositions are a concentration of the pedagogical conception which has been developed in Lower Saxony for the reform of Secondary Level 2 within Work Group A (linguistic-literary-artistic area of study). They must be examined and judged in close connection with the "Aids for Secondary Level 2" published by the Department of…

The analysis of a film is proposed as an alternative for one of the two required text analyses in the French examination for the Higher School Certificate in Australia. This entails the addition of film courses to the general curriculum. (Text is in French.) (TL)