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Norrish, Norma – System, 1978
The injection of conversation/discussion sessions into English language laboratory exercises could help to achieve the major objective of teaching English as a foreign language--helping the learner to express himself in English. Steps in developing the method are outlined. (SW)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, English (Second Language), Higher Education
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Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1976
The material in this teacher's guide supplements existing tape materials in the lessons of the basic course in French. The exercises begin with Lesson 13 of the Basic Course and continue through Lesson 63. Each unit in this manual concentrates on a grammatical point and contains the following elements: (1) learning objectives, (2) audiolingual…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Conversational Language Courses, French, Grammar
Jackson, Mary H. – 1975
This review of the state of foreign language education in the United States notes that early grammar-translation methods gave way to the Army Method during World War II. Students learned both inductively and deductively and acquired primarily oral-aural competence, with reading and writing as secondary goals. Not until the late 1950s did the…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Cognitive Processes, FLES
Roberts, David Harrill – 1976
This paper presents a "natural" method of second language learning which stresses contact with native speakers and de-emphasizes textbook learning. The method described here is that used by Baptist missions in eastern Africa to teach Bemba, but is transferrable to any language. Some of the main principles of the method are: (1) language…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bantu Languages, Bemba, Church Programs
Hieke, Adolf E. – 1977
Audio-Lectal Practice (ALP) as a second language teaching methodology is described. In this program, students recite progressively difficult texts in the language laboratory, and compare their recitation with the taped recitation of a native speaker. The method facilitates exposure and rigorous work on the oral discourse features of the target…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Audiotape Recordings, Communicative Competence (Languages), Connected Discourse
Savignon, Sandra J. – 1975
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…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Class Activities, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Games
O'Neill, Stephen P. – 1978
The questions investigated in this study concern the adequacy of the current comprehensive English as a Second Language (ESL) programs, the need for a separate but complementary reading program, the relative merits of a classroom-based or an independent reading laboratory method, and the relationship between native language reading proficiency and…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, College Students, Educational Experiments, English (Second Language)