This first of two volumes presents materials designed to supplement "Albanian: Basic Course" in the area of military science. The first section consists of parallel lists of questions on military subjects in English and Albanian. The second section is a list of 200 military questions in Albanian only. The third section is an English-Albanian words…

THE PLACEMENT BATTERY CONSISTS OF TWO TESTS FROM THE COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION BOARD (READING AND LISTENING), A GRAMMAR PROFICIENCY TEST, AND AN ORAL INTERVIEW. FRESHMEN WHO SCORE WITHIN A CERTAIN RANGE ON THESE TESTS ARE PLACED IN SECOND YEAR INTENSIVE FRENCH (TWO CLASS PERIODS A DAY). PREREQUISITE FOR THE THIRD YEAR COURSE IS NOT THE…

LATIN TEACHERS AND LANGUAGE SUPERVISORS IN CHICAGO, DETROIT, CLEVELAND, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK VISITED FIVE 6TH AND 7TH GRADE CLASSES IN FIVE DIFFERENT WASHINGTON, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AND PARTICIPATED IN DISCUSSIONS AFTERWARDS WITH LOCAL ADMINISTRATORS, CURRICULUM WRITERS, AND TEACHERS. THE CLASSROOMS VISITED WERE INVOLVED IN EXPERIMENTAL…

THE EXPERIENCE OF FLES TEACHERS WITH "BONJOUR LINE" (FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE) AND "VOIX ET IMAGES DE FRANCE" (SIXTH GRADE) IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FRENCH CURRICULUM OVER A 2-YEAR PERIOD IN SHAKER HEIGHTS, OHIO, HAS RESULTED IN A NUMBER OF CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE WAYS IN WHICH AMERICAN AND FRENCH…

A STUDY TO DEVELOP INSTRUMENTS TO MEASURE CHILD BILINGUALISM AND BICULTURAL SOCIALIZATION WAS CONDUCTED IN DEL RIO, TEXAS, A MEXICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY IN WHICH SCHOOL IS TAUGHT IN BOTH SPANISH AND ENGLISH. THREE INSTRUMENTS WERE DEVELOPED--(1) A SERIES OF 6 TESTS FOR MEASURING LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE IN ENGLISH, (2) A SIMILAR SERIES OF 6 TESTS FOR…

THE NEED IN LANGUAGE STUDY FOR CULTURAL CONTENT, IN THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SENSE (I.E., FOR CULTURAL REFERENTS OF LINGUISTIC UNITS), HAS GROWN WITH THE INCREASED EMPHASIS ON ORAL PROFICIENCY AND THE ABILITY TO FUNCTION IN THE TARGET LANGUAGE. INCORPORATING CULTURE INTO THE LANGUAGE PROGRAM CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED ON THE SECONDARY LEVEL BY HAVING THE…

Selected for discussion in this paper are some investigations which have results relevant to second-language teaching, insofar as they might affect the learners, the teachers, and the materials used. These psychologically oriented studies of bilingual comunities deal with (1) bilingualism and intelligence, (2) language aptitude, (3) motivation,…

This paper reviews the teaching of English as a second language in the secondary schools in the Transvaal, the syllabuses which have been in use since 1956-57, and the importance of an audiolingual approach. In attempting to discover the reasons for students' failure to attain a satisfactory standard of bilingualism, the author examines (1) the…

THIS ARTICLE IS NOT CONCERNED WITH WRITING A TRANSFORMATIONAL GENERATIVE GRAMMAR FOR REFLEXIVE SENTENCES OF ENGLISH AND SPANISH BUT RATHER WITH THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF TRANSFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS--THE UNDERLYING, FUNDAMENTAL NOTIONS THAT CAN BE APPLIED TO PROBLEMS OF LANGUAGE TEACHING. THE AUTHORS RELATE THESE NOTIONS (LINGUISTIC UNIVERSALS,…

The author examines some statistics which indicate entire classrooms of Indian students at the junior high school level are reading at the second or third grade level, and are graduated from high school with perhaps intermediate grade reading ability. Various surveys seem to have established that children are able to achieve at grade level through…

This article is based on current research being undertaken in an African high school in the Republic of South Africa. The subjects for this research are Zulu-speaking pupils, average age sixteen years, who have received eight years of formal instruction in English. They are being tested in their ninth year of schooling (Standard Seven) when…

This paper reports on a study of bilingual education (schooling using both English and Spanish as media of instruction) by staff from the University of Texas and 30 bilingual elementary-school teachers from 13 Texas school systems. There was wide agreement on basic principles of bilingual education: that every child should be educated to his full…

An experiment measuring the effectiveness of two procedures for presenting pattern drills was devised in order to show that pattern drills are most useful as a learning device if deliberately related to situational or meaningful content. Criteria for the selection of subjects are presented here, as are sample test items and a table of results.…

Although closed circuit television is in use in many types of educational situations around the world, relatively little experimentation has been done with video tape recorders now being marketed in a number of countries. The experiment described in this article was undertaken at Tokyo Gakugei Daigaku in 1967 under a grant from the U.S.…

The author's analysis of reading material content of second language texts examines achievement of graphemic-phonemic contrasts, sequence of association in the process of reading, and control of sounds, grammar, subject matter, and cultural content. Because the orthography-sound association skill cannot be separated from the sound-meaning skill,…