The materials of this program are written to individualize the teaching of Spanish to English speakers, and are designed to provide as much flexibility as possible for both the teacher and student. The materials can be used for large groups, small groups, and individual work, although direct teacher-student contact is considered beneficial. This…

The materials in this program are written to individualize the teaching of Spanish to English speakers, and are designed to provide as much flexibility as possible for both the teacher and student. The materials can be used for large groups, small groups, and individual work, although direct teacher-student contact is considered beneficial. This…

An investigation which attempted to determine the relative effectiveness of monolingual and bilingual glossaries in teaching foreign language vocabulary to adults is described. Eight matched groups of students (four each in two separate experiments) were taught new English words according to two different principles. In half the groups, the…

A study was conducted to determine how effective was the Communications Program in providing special assistance to students who were experiencing serious difficulty with the English language. Forty-eight students were used in the experimental group at Britannia Secondary School and a further twenty-six students from Templeton Secondary School…

Newspapers and magazines have been used only on a limited basis in the foreign language classroom, because language study has traditionally led to the study of literature. However, this trend is now changing because (1) foreign language curriculum at the secondary school level is expanding to encompass new goals, and (2) the influence from college…

This research project was designed to analyze by quantitative methods a corpus of writing produced by four groups of American college students enrolled in German courses and by one group of professional German writers. Analysis was undertaken in order to determine whether or not significant quantitative differences in the use of selected syntactic…

According to an agreement between the parties of the labour market and the Ministry of Labour, the immigration of foreign workers into Denmark takes place on a quota basis and conforms to a series of regulations, including a rule that the foreign worker, prior to departing from his country, must have made contract arrangements for his job. This…

Ever since 1946, increased emigration in Italy has been paralleled by a slow but steady increase in educational activity. In 1971, Law No. 153 was adopted which provides for special educational arrangements to be made for migrant workers and their spouses adopted by the Italian Government are based on the need for Italian children to: (1) be…

This newsletter was begun in an effort to apprise persons, primarily linguists, working with and for the benefit of American Indians of various projects on which other persons in a similar capacity are working. The main areas treated are: (1) the improvement of Indian literacy in their native languages, (2) various efforts to make the expertise…

Stereotypes of the Mexican, the Chicano, and the American Indian are noted to be recurrent in many educational publications and considered to be a major obstacle in overcoming commonly held biases and prejudices which work against the educational and social advancement of minority groups. This paper discusses means to improve the educational…

Recognition of the enrollment crisis facing foreign language teachers in colleges and universities prompts the author to propose alternatives to the lock-step curriculum still characteristic of many language programs. Individualized instruction is seen as the key to the improvement of student motivation; extra-curricular language activities and…

This volume, one of a series in a Russian course designed to train native English-language speakers to a level 3 proficiency in reading and writing Russian, contains materials on the following topics: (1) forms and constructions, (2) basic reading texts, (3) grammar with written exercises, (4) oral exercises, (5) reading and translation exercises,…

This study sought to determine whether language interference would have a significant effect on visual perception and whether the effect would be more noticeable for boys than for girls. For this cross-cultural study, second-grade pupils were employed. One group of 59 resided in Puerto Rico; the second group of 63, in New Jersey. The sample groups…

This volume, one of a series in a Russian course designed to train native English- language speakers to a level 3 proficiency in reading and writing Russian, contains materials on the following topics: (1) forms and constructions, (2) basic reading texts, (3) grammar with written exercises, (4) oral exercises, (5) reading and translation…

The author suggests that teachers of English as a second language unconsciously and unwittingly often display negative attitudes towards the language and culture of their students. These attitudes can be clothed in rather authoritarian modes of behavior. They are the products of linguistic and cultural misunderstandings on the teacher's part. It…