Modified version of a paper presented at the Fifth Annual Conference of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, London, England, January 3-6, 1972. (DD)

Issue devoted to ways in which foreign literatures are taught in the language classroom. (DS)

Article proposes a set of frequency groups and describes an algorithm for the implementation of a frequency identification and marking procedure on an IBM 360 computer. A sample page of a Russian text book utilizing the technique is given and several other potential utilizations are described. (Author)

Written for presentation at the 21st Annual Round Table of the School of Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown University on March 14, 1970. (DS)

The author argues that "pupils who use their mother tongue at home and imitate the native speakers of English at school will learn to speak English without a foreign accent, will have a more wholesome self-concept, and will be bilingual." (FWB)

The commonly slower reading rate in the second language of fluent bilinguals is found to have a counterpart in slower rates of listening comprehension. The implications of this finding for second-language reading research are discussed. (MSE)

Seventy-nine first-year and 85 third-year students were tested on the meanings of French words from vocabulary lists. Twenty percent were then taught memory-improvement strategies, 20 percent were taught strategies and given guided practice, and 20 percent learned the lists without aids. The strategies significantly improved the performance of…

Six investigations of the keyword method of foreign language vocabulary learning were conducted to evaluate differences found in highly structured laboratory-like settings. Two experiments produced keyword effects when the method was administered to small or classroom-sized groups of elementary school children. (Author/RD)