A review of a three-day conference on language teaching policies, methods, instructional materials, and teacher training in Canada is presented in this report. Articles and commentary focus on: (1) Canada's needs in language teaching, (2) language programs in the United Kingdom, United States, and the Soviet Union, (3) research in teaching…

Education for minority group children has been completely inadequate through the failure of educators to understand sympathetically the children's linguistic and cultural backgrounds and through the erroneous emphasis upon replacing "poor speech habits" rather than adding a second dialect (standard English). To help reduce the gap between ideals…

This paper describes the TALK (Technician/Apprentice Language Kit) model for "blue collar" Peace Corps trainees. The model seeks to overcome the low language aptitude of such trainees in academic learning situations by emphasizing their demonstrated task-oriented language learning ability. It also seeks to address the problem of…

Discussion focuses on the widespread alienation of students from the foreign language experience while referring to methodological factors underlying this syndrome and to the uncertainty of the status that foreign language instruction has today in the classroom. A causal relationship is suggested to exist between students' alienation and the…

Emphasized in this address are the current needs for foreign language and area studies teaching in the United States. A discussion of program desiderata includes interdisciplinary approach practices, generalist versus specialist considerations, and team teaching potential. Also mentioned briefly are government, as opposed to private, funding of…

A course in technical Russian is shown to differ from the usual language course in aims (translation, not oral skills), rate, caliber and motivation of student, demands on the background of the teacher, and material used. A sample outline of class procedure is included. (GK)

This handbook, which focuses on foreign language teaching in the classroom, aims to describe the "state of the art" in testing. The first section considers the area of aptitude testing, particularly the diagnostic function of aptitude tests. A taxonomy of foreign language teaching objectives points out the need to classify the aims of foreign…

This manual of tape scripts, together with a set of foreign language audio tapes for level 1 Italian, was prepared to support the curriculum bulletin, New York City Foreign Language Program for Schools: Italian, Levels 1-4. Vocabulary, repetition, transformation, and recombination drills on specific grammatical features allow further development…

This second manual of tape scripts, together with a set of foreign language audio tapes for level 2 French, was prepared to support the curriculum bulletin, New York City Foreign Language Program for Secondary Schools: French, Levels 1-5. Vocabulary, repetition, transformation, and recombination drills on specific grammatical features allow…

This second manual of tape scripts, together with a set of foreign language audio tapes for level 2 Spanish, was prepared to support the curriculum bulletin, New York City Foreign Language Program for Secondary Schools: Spanish, Levels 1-5. Vocabulary, repetition, transformation, and recombination drills on specific grammatical features allow…

This manual of tape scripts, together with a set of foreign language audio tapes for level 1 German, was prepared to support the curriculum bulletin, New York City Foreign Language Program for Secondary Schools: German, Levels 1-4. Vocabulary, repetition, transformation, and recombination drills on specific grammatical features allow further…

In this practical handbook for teachers of English to adult speakers of other languages, the author stresses the TESOL teacher's need to know about various teaching methods and techniques and how to evaluate materials in order to be able to select and develop a style of teaching compatible with the expectations and needs of his students. Such…

Application of linguistic principles in the teaching of French in secondary schools and colleges is the main objective of this introductory text for teachers. Part One treats basic methodological considerations, among which psychological aspects of language learning, the use of English in the classroom, types of exercises used in language drills,…

The establishment and direction of discussion groups, using tapes as a reference and vocabulary guide, in a sixth-grade class having a previous preparation of two years of daily French instruction are described. Grouping by fluency, choice of group leaders, and the discovery of problems and solutions through the eyes of group leaders are also…

These abridged proceedings of the conference on "Languages for Special Purposes" define and clarify organizational and linguistic difficulties arising in the provision of "service" courses in England and encourage coordination of existing research and development. Four major areas are presented: (1) D.C. Kiddy and W. Grauberg…