This paper analyses the major approaches in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) vocabulary teaching from historical perspective and puts forward multi-dimensional vocabulary teaching mode for college English. The author stresses that multi-dimensional approaches of communicative vocabulary teaching, lexical phrase teaching method, the grammar…

Describes a French diction and oral communication course conducted at Franklin and Marshall College. Originally envisioned as a "necessary evil" to train students to write and deliver seminar papers, the course unexpectedly appealed to students as a practical experience while developing increased student interest in French language and literature.…

IF STATISTICS WERE AVAILABLE ON THE DROPOUT RATE AND UNSATISFACTORY ACHIEVEMENT OF COLLEGE STUDENTS TAKING RUSSIAN, THEY WOULD PROBABLY SUPPORT THE WIDELY HELD OPINION THAT RUSSIAN IS DIFFICULT. THE DIFFICULTY IS ATTRIBUTABLE LARGELY TO THE FACT THAT RUSSIAN IS NEITHER A GERMANIC NOR A ROMANCE LANGUAGE, AND STUDENTS THUS FIND IT HARD TO RECOGNIZE…

A short critique of the audiovisual and global structure method as used in university foreign language classes in Belgium with special emphasis on the Spanish program. An important understanding is an articulation of active and passive knowledge as opposed to their separation. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Paper given at the ADFL session of the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, St. Paul, Minn., April 27, 1973. (DD)

FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS FROM THE EARLIEST LEVELS THROUGH GRADUATE SCHOOL NEED TO JOIN FORCES TO DETERMINE OBJECTIVES AND DEVELOP CONTINUITY OF STUDY. TOO OFTEN COLLEGE FRESHMEN PLEAD INADEQUATE PREPARATION AND ARE PERMITTED TO DUPLICATE WORK ALREADY SATISFACTORILY PERFORMED IN HIGH SCHOOL. IF PRE-COLLEGE TRAINING PLACED GREATER EMPHASIS ON THE…

This study evaluates the counseling-learning approach to foreign language instruction as compared with traditional methods in terms of language achievement and change in personal orientation and in attitude toward learning. Twelve students volunteered to learn Spanish or German under simultaneous exposure to both languages using the…

THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ANNUAL INDIANA-PURDUE LANGUAGE LABORATORY CONFERENCE ARE ORGANIZED, AFTER INTRODUCTORY STATEMENTS BY NAJAM AND LARSEN ON CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION, UNDER THREE GENERAL HEADINGS PLUS APPENDIXES. IN THE FIRST SECTION DEVOTED TO MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES ARE ARTICLES BY HYER, GARIMALDI, EDDY, AND SMITH…

Addresses the question of the choices offered by individualized instruction, referring to the seven years experience with Russian Program I at SUNY, Albany. Describes how this program also provides unusual opportunities to alter and individualize the traditional courses that are taught in parallel with it, at the same institution. (MES)

Language instruction for business students at Nijenrode College, Holland, is the focus of this article. The basic philosophy and development of the program currently offered are aimed at improving better coordination among departments in order to provide students with an integrated set of faculties which will qualify them to perform the functions…

A university professor examines attitudes and theories relating to foreign language teaching commonly accepted by instructors and students in U.S. high schools and universities. The author attempts to distinguish the factual from the legendary, or the folklore as he refers to it, in such areas as the audiolingual approach, selection of textbooks,…