The framed dialogue method which has been used for improving the teaching of the Chinese language at the University of Wisconsin since 1968 is described, and examples are given. The advantages of this method over pattern drill are discussed. (RM)

Describes a 1978 experiment in which French conversations (among advanced students of French) were transmitted by satellite from Hawaii to other locations in the Pacific. (AM)

Presents a method for managing and teaching oral presentation in the conversational foreign language class. (Author/VWL)

Principles, objectives, and techniques that focus on the challenge to and the role of teacher and student in the Italian conversation course, with a view to greater efficacy, are presented. (AM)

Briefly outlines the rationale for a transactional approach to language teaching. (PM)

Describes techniques for achieving emotional involvement and, therefore, better results on the part of his students in an intermediate level Russian conversation course. (Text is in Russian.) (DH)

The author used a movie poster to initiate three weekly exercise sessions. The first concentrated on types of posters and notices, the ways they may be mounted, and how that activity may be described. The second phase was description of the poster's subject. The third concerned the myths and symbols and emotional qualities of the drama portrayed.…

A great variety of authentic cultural elements may be introduced in the foreign language classroom, not at the expense of language learning but as an interrelated system. (Author)

Addresses the potential of conversational simulations for computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and reasons why this potential is largely untapped. Topics discussed include artificial intelligence; microworlds; parsing; realism versus reality in computer software; intelligent tutoring systems; and criteria to clarify what kinds of CALL…

This is one of a series of self-teaching textbooks in more than 30 languages initially prepared and published for the armed forces and later offered to the general public. The method used in this manual requires either that a native speaker of German be on hand during the course or that the recorded voice of a native speaker be used. Records and…

Examines the impact of the workshop in oral proficiency testing organized by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and the Illinois Foreign Language Teachers Association. The workshops were designed to train college professors to administer oral interviews to rate the level of oral proficiency of foreign language speakers. (SED)

Reasons are given for restoring grammatical study to a more central place in second language study. One reason given is the limitations inherent in the objectives of an audiolingual approach; another is the indirect impact of the enormous advances being made in modern linguistics. (RM)

Reports on a pilot project which used an imaginary tour of an Italian city as the basis for conversation exercises. (AM)