Discusses the place of the language laboratory in the audiolingual, situational, cognitive, and pragmalinguistic approaches to foreign language teaching. Finds that laboratory work can help in achieving some of the goals of "communicative competence," and suggests some criteria for judging such work. (IFS/WGA)

Presidential address delivered at the Tenth Annual General Meeting of the Audio-Visual Language Association held December 28, 1971, at the University of Nottingham, England. (DS)

This report presents the results of a conference on furthering teacher education in language laboratory use. A review of recommendations for innovation, adopted at a previous conference (see FL 002 711) serves as background for summaries of papers on the following subjects: (1) foreign-language learning goals and consequences for methodology, (2)…

The initial chapter of this volume is concerned with determining the variables involved in language learning. The procedures and results of experiments conducted in order to formulate learning and teaching principles are described. Experiments include testing different approaches used to help students acquire sentence meaning, discovering the most…

Different theories of programed instruction are compared and contrasted, and their application in the language laboratory is discussed. Chapters on programing theories include: (1) Skinner and linear programing, (2) Crowder and intrinsic programing, (3) Pressey and complementary programing, (4) Gilbert and mathetics, and (5) computer assisted…

An introduction discussing the objectives of secondary school Latin instruction stresses comprehension as a major goal and recommends deferring translation until the third and fourth year of study. A functional presentation of morphology and grammar is also recommended. After a discussion of general norms governing teaching procedures, teaching…

Aural-oral teaching procedures in elementary classical Greek and in Koine are accompanied by recommended texts. A survey of colleges and universities in America teaching first-year Greek points out the growing interest in this subject, and thus the need for new materials. Operating on the basic linguistic principle that all languages are…

A PROGRAM OF CURRICULUM REVISION, INITIATED IN 1962, HAS RESULTED IN A CURRICULUM GUIDE WHICH DELINEATES THE AIMS, TECHNIQUES, CONTENT, AND SCOPE OF SPANISH INSTRUCTION AT EACH LEVEL OF A FIVE-LEVEL SEQUENCE IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF NEW YORK CITY. A MODIFIED AUDIOLINGUAL APPROACH IS STRESSED AND SPECIFIC TECHNIQUES ARE SUGGESTED FOR THE…

This two-part, state curriculum bulletin sets forth guidelines for the teaching of modern languages. Part one is concerned with the rationale behind language programs, student selection, and program articulation. Instructional objectives, methodology, culture, language laboratory procedures, and guidelines for testing are examined in the second…

Second language study in the Soviet Union's General Education School (compulsory public education) is described in detail with briefer explanations of teacher training institutes and inservice teacher education. Both positive and negative aspects of Russia's language programs are presented, with primacy given to teaching methods, objectives,…

This is the second volume in an annual series which collects, catalogues, analyzes, and compresses basic information intended to help improve foreign language instruction in America. The review, covering all levels of instruction, primarily concerns itself with the process of individualizing instruction and takes into account the contributions of…