Discusses controversies regarding the practice of bilingual education and its basic rationale. (DD)

One effective manual of combatting black students' indifference to foreign language learning and to Spanish in particular is to use materials that are relevant to their interest and experience. (EH)

This paper outlines the proceedings of a conference on foreign language education held in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1975. Various speakers and panels detailed the history of foreign languages in Wisconsin schools, the price of language education, value of language study, support of languages at university level, and bilingual education. (CHK)

The Pacific Northwest Council of Foreign Languages' 1977 conference is reported here. Second language learning, language instruction, and the future of foreign language study were topics of several papers summarized in this article. (CHK)

Bilingual education (BE) has long been established in Mexico, Peru, the U.S.S.R., the Philippines, and a number of other nations in order to teach both the vernacular and official languages. In the United States, BE has received increased attention since the passage of the National Bilingual Education Act and Title VII legislation. Evaluation…

A number of Job Corps centers, both national and regional, have been staffed to serve the Spanish-speaking with bilingual and bicultural programs, including job training programs. (MF)

Distinguishes between folk bilingualism and elitist bilingualism. Bilingual education deals with the former. How second language teaching and bilingual education can be brought closer together, and the need for bilingual education among non-native speakers of English and among monolingual speakers of English, are discussed. (SC)

Discusses early and late French immersion programs, their advantages and disadvantages, and considerations of staffing, cost, student motivation, effect on native language skills, and program effectiveness. (CK)

The Ottawa school system conducts French instruction in both immersion and "core" or regular programs. Special features are bilingual grades at the higher level and a bilingual high school. French Immersion programs are evaluated in terms of expense and educational effect. (CK)

The experience of a British Columbia bilingual education program is outlined, with information about number of pupils, program objectives, staffing, teaching materials and cost. The program teaches French in a primarily English-speaking area. (CK)

This report begins with a list of the publications of the national FLES Committee and an introduction in which T. Andersson describes how FLES programs can adopt bilingual education practices. Seventeen papers are included in the report. R. Bennett and M. Lala discuss how FLES programs can be individualized. Specific teaching techniques are…

Describes the English language program at the University of New Brunswick at Frederiction, including its history, development, current organization, attributes, and problems. (RL)

Asserts that language teaching is introduced into the curriculum at precisely the wrong time: the point at which language acquisition has diminished and language learning is more dominant. It is also stated that compulsory language learning is destructive and that bilingualism provides another way of looking at the world. (EJS)

An evaluation of a bilingual program for native English speakers in Ontario that involves the use of French as the medium of instruction for 70 percent of the curriculum in grade 8 and 40 percent in grade 9. (Author/KM)