Since the audiolingual forms of a foreign language (hearing and speaking) must be controlled before the graphic skills (reading and writing) are taught, exercises in a language laboratory, which affords students intensive, active, individual drill, ought to precede written exercises on the same material. The three major forms of language…

THE NEED TO PROVIDE COLORADO'S MODERN LANGUAGE TEACHERS WITH A STATE INSERVICE PROGRAM TO HELP THEM RELATE LINGUISTIC THEORIES AND FINDINGS TO CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES RESULTED IN THE PUBLICATION OF THIS STUDY GUIDE FOR SPANISH TEACHERS BY THE COLORADO STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. DESIGNED FOR USE BY INDEPENDENT STUDY GROUPS, THE GUIDE STRESSES AN…

THE NEED TO PROVIDE COLORADO MODERN LANGUAGE TEACHERS WITH A STATE INSERVICE PROGRAM TO HELP THEM RELATE LINGUISTIC THEORIES AND FINDINGS TO CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES RESULTED IN THE PUBLICATION OF THIS STUDY GUIDE FOR FRENCH TEACHERS BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. DESIGNED FOR USE BY INDEPENDENT STUDY GROUPS, THE GUIDE STRESSES AN AUDIOLINGUAL…

THE NEED TO PROVIDE COLORADO MODERN LANGUAGE TEACHERS WITH A STATE INSERVICE PROGRAM TO HELP THEM RELATE LINGUISTIC THEORIES AND FINDINGS TO CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES RESULTED IN THE PUBLICATION OF THIS STUDY GUIDE FOR GERMAN TEACHERS BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. DESIGNED FOR USE BY INDEPENDENT STUDY GROUPS, THE GUIDE STRESSES AN AUDIOLINGUAL…

This collection of readings on the topic of teaching English as a second language (ESL) has a twofold purpose: to enlarge the ESL teacher's awareness of the field and to assist in the professional growth of the new teacher or teacher-trainee. Each of the book's nine sections deal with one area of ESL instruction. Section 1, "Trends and Practices,"…

This curriculum guide sets forth the objectives, content, methods, and scope of Latin instruction for each level of a four-level sequence in the secondary schools of New York City. It is a revision of experimental bulletins in use since 1962. Suggestions are made for the teaching of vocabulary and idiom, grammar and forms, derivation, drill,…

This curriculum guide for German language instruction in secondary schools concentrates on methodology and materials which emphasize the development of audio-lingual skills and the acquisition of reading skills. Extensive sections on reading and culture are directed to specific grades and levels and provide recommendations. Teaching methodology,…

One of the main tenets of the audio-lingual theory which has dominated most of our thinking in foreign language teaching methodology for the last fifteen years is that students should never be put in the situation of having to say something for which they have not already learned the patterns. Is the language laboratory really useful, however, in…