Reviews "L'Audio Mirage," by Joan Fenet, Michele Fourquet, and Jean-Francois LeDu, which studies the newer audiovisual and audiolingual techniques in language teaching. (Text is in French.) (PMP)

The teaching profession is encouraged to retreat from the search for one method of instruction and to recognize that there are many factors which lead to success in modern language learning. Several models offering different approaches for organizing classroom instruction are suggested. (Author/PMP)

The author believes that using comic strips in language-learning classes has three main benefits. First, comic strips motivate younger learners. Second, they provide a context and logically connected sentences to help language learning. Third, their visual information is helpful for comprehension. The author argues that comic strips can be used in…

A technique for more efficient teaching and learning of reading comprehension in a second language is presented. (Text is in French.) (PMP)

The pedagogue is caught between the qualitative and quantitative or regularized aspects of his work, a situation not automatically conducive to scientific study. The article refreshes the instructor on the elementary principles of experimentation: observation, systematization, elaboration of hypothesis, and startegies of comparison. (Text is in…

An experiment in which prepositions are analyzed on a formal basis is reported. Results of the experiment are discussed. (RM)

Argues that instructor monitoring in a language laboratory is an inefficient instructional method. (CK)

Principles, objectives, and techniques that focus on the challenge to and the role of teacher and student in the Italian conversation course, with a view to greater efficacy, are presented. (AM)

Foreign language and bilingual educators are in the unique position of being able to bring the world to their classrooms via the telecommunications technologies. Telecommunication is electronic communication over long distances by means of an online computer service, a telephone, a television, a satellite, or other long distance technologies. This…

Total Physical Response is a strategy for learning second languages developed by James J. Asher. The Tomatis program, developed in France by Alfred Tomatis, is a method for treating dyslexia and communication problems and is also used for teaching basic elements of foreign languages. Suggestology is a psychotherapeutic system based on yogic…

Advocates the use in language teaching of different but complementary approaches to language description rather than strict adherence to a single theoretical model. Various linguistic descriptions of indirect object structures are given as support for the thesis. (KM)

Reading aloud can be an effective tool in the teaching of English as a second language. (LG)

Urges the use of the newspaper in the teaching of English as a second language. (LG)

Offers suggestions concerning the structure and content of "Introduction to German Literature" courses. (PP)