A definition of objective test items is given. The disadvantages and advantages of objective tests are discussed, and some examples of objective items are given. Hints on writing objective items are offered, and some non-objective items are discussed. (RM)

Describes procedures for the showing of newsreel episodes in the foreign language class. (PP)

Explains how the language laboratory can be used to introduce a literary text. (Text is in French.) (PP)

Presents some examples, from Japanese and English, in which the syntactic and semantic correspondence seems to be sufficiently established as to demonstrate the efficacy of the rationalist approach, which is defined here as an attempt "to give students the reasons for grammatical phenomena, relating facts about the second language to facts about…

Described a program designed to help no-English speaking and/or foreign-born students adjust to the environment of the American classroom. (Author/RK)

Paper presented at a conference between American IREX exchange teachers and Soviet faculty, Moscow University, Moscow, U.S.S.R., August 11, 1972. (HK)

Paper presented at a conference between American IREX exchange teachers and Soviet faculty, Moscow University, Moscow, U.S.S.R., August 11, 1972. (HK)

Describes in detail a board game developed for German students with a view to encouraging freer speech in a structured language learning environment. A bibliography is included. (PM)

Discusses the use of free conversation, especially with regard to vocabulary. Recommends group discussion in the FL, using, at the intermediate level, limited, familiar vocabulary. At a higher level, words from a special technical vocabulary may be introduced, aurally and visually. A teaching example ("Traffic") is given with thorough…

Discusses the principles of behavioral objectives and strategies for achieving them. (Text is in French.) (RM)

Discusses the direction in which language laboratory instructional practices should be developed. (Text is in German.) (Author/KM)

Discusses how fairy tales can be used in the French class to develop listening comprehension skills. (PMP)

Although techniques of autosuggestion in personal development have a long history in some Eastern cultures, suggestibility as a character trait first came into focus in the West with the "animal magnetism" of Franz Mesmer. The uncovering of the nature and phenomena of hypnosis resulted in a steady and enduring interest in this state of…