Research on the learner's role as an active participant in the teaching/learning process suggests that modified content instruction holds promise for influencing the development of second language skills. This research indicates that the effectiveness of learning depends on how the student thinks about the new task as well as on the way in which…

Aspects of second language learning and instruction are explored in order to develop a rationale for a comprehension-based approach to language instruction. Eight characteristic pedagogical assumptions are critically examined, including assumptions regarding the role of grammar, age differences in learning ability, the priority given to each of…

A study of the communication strategies used by beginning language learners and their interviewers centered on the analysis of videotaped interviews of 53 beginning French students at the University of Delaware. The students had been instructed by either the total physical response or the strategic interaction method. Observed communication…

Urges student involvement in classroom activities, rather than formal classroom teaching, in learning English as a second language. (LG)

Describes an experiment at the University of Hawaii to test the effectiveness of a set of video-taped Japanese language-and-culture teaching lessons. (PP)

Report on the 21st Northwest Conference, "Toward Student-Centered Foreign-Language Programs," held in Washington, D.C., on April 18-20, 1974. (PMP)

An individualized French I program at Snow Hill Junior High School in Snow Hill, North Carolina, is described. (PMP)

The author describes how a New Brunswick board set up an early French immersion program. (Editor)

Second language students are often discouraged in trying to acquire oral fluency skills. Four specific problem areas are: (1) timidity; (2) listening comprehension difficulties; (3) oral reading problems; and (4) difficulty in putting sentences together. An approach that emphasizes writing skills avoids these problem areas and uses skills the…

Discusses the keyword method, which divided vocabulary learning into two stages: (1) the subject associates the spoken foreign word with the keyword, and association that is formed quickly because of the acoustic similarity between the words, and, (2) the subject forms a mental image of the keyword "interacting" with the English translation.…

Explores the creative power of nominal compounding in English and proposes a method for the presentation of the compounding system to learners of English. See FL 507 969 for availability information. (TL)

Suggests an eclectic approach to foreign language teaching where the learner's cognitive structures and capacities as well as his entire personality would be taken into consideration. See FL 507 969 for availability information. (TL)

An account of comparative method studies in teaching English grammar to Swedish learners, conducted by the GUME/Adults Project in Gothenburg. Cognitive code learning is superior to the audiolingual habit theory for teaching second language grammar to adults but a meaningful synthesis of both methods should be sought. See FL 507 969 for…

Proposes a methodology for teaching comprehension of a foreign language in both the reading and the listening domains. (Text is in French.) (TL)

The first part of this paper presents a set of principles that constitute a theory of lexical meaning. The second part considers the implications of the theory for the teaching of English vocabulary in foreign or second language classrooms. (CLK)