Describes the experience of a teacher involved in a program for teaching beginning French to prison inmates with a high school education. (AM)

Proposes an approach to French language instruction for adults which relies on materials of a political nature. (AM)

Discusses the value of self-evaluation to the adult second language learner; the tools of self-evaluation; and the relationship of self-evaluation to other forms of evaluation, to learning, and to instruction. (AM)

Older people who must learn a second language and adjust to a new culture may be benefically taught by using proverbs. This technique may help to break down barriers by expressing the same idea in the native and target languages and is suited to the less formally educated student. (SW)

In role-play, the course leader and the participants perform with different degrees of intensity and for different amounts of time. But there should be a common examination and evaluation of the adequacy of the acquired language material for use in actual life situations. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Describes the acquisition of grammar in a beginning English course for adult students organized on an experimental basis at the C.R.A.P.E.L. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Describes various approaches to language teaching, specifically a new "solar" approach to teaching English as a second language for adult beginners. (AM)

Students should be prepared psychologically before they begin studying a foreign language to make them disposed to practice the language rather than study it. More emphasis should be placed on the functional/notional aspect of a language than on the structural aspect. (CFM)

Describes a research project carried out in Sweden to study the acquisition of Swedish syntax of negation by adult second language learners. (CFM)

For adults, there is a correlation between the years of formal study of English and English proficiency. Formal instruction in general is more beneficial for second language learning than exposure to the second language in natural situations. The essential contributions of formal instruction are investigated. (Author/ND)

In recent years, there has been a growing research interest in the analysis of errors adults make while learning a second language. The underlying objective of most of these analyses has been to reveal the systematicity of adult errors in an effort to understand the process of adult second language learning. This paper deals with errors from a…

Discusses current language needs analyses, and considers the relationship between this type of analysis and language programs and materials. (AM)

Within the framework of error analysis, examines Nemser's theory, which states that a learner's approximative system at a given level has characteristics which are similar to the approximative system of another learner's at the same level. (Text is in French.) (AM)