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Peer reviewedmasciantonio, Rudolph – Classical World, 1971
A more detailed description of these programs appears in Foreign Language Annals" v3 n4, p592-595, May 1970. (DS)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Classical Languages, Curriculum Development, Elementary Schools
Peer reviewedBurstall, Clare – Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers' Associations, 1976
Comments from students are given on the teaching of French in British primary and secondary schools where the initial emphasis is on listening and speaking, and where texts and English explanations are not used. (RM)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, FLES
Couture, Louise – Foreign Lang Ann, 1969
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Cultural Context
JOHNSON, CHARLES E.; AND OTHERS – 1963
A COMPARISON WAS MADE OF TWO DIFFERENT METHODS OF SPANISH INSTRUCTION. A TOTAL OF 93 FOURTH-GRADERS WERE ORIGINALLY INVOLVED IN THE 3-YEAR STUDY. UPON COMPLETION OF THE PROGRAM, 32 SUBJECTS REMAINED IN THE CONTROL GROUP AND 34 WERE IN THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP. THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP RECEIVED INSTRUCTION BY TELEVISION AND TAPE RECORDINGS UNDER THE…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Educational Television, Elementary School Students, Experimental Teaching
Download full textKern, Edith – Yale French Studies, 1959
Critical of the language instruction which students receive in elementary and secondary schools, the author examines the teaching potential of televised instruction. Foreign language instruction in the elementary school is noted to be particularly weak. Discussion of an experiment involving some 800 children in 4th and 5th grades suggests that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Instruction, Educational Experiments
Peer reviewedRussell, Lois P. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1970
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, English (Second Language), FLES, French
PDF pending restorationPetherbridge, Douglas – Alberta Modern Language Journal, 1976
This paper first addresses the issue of the contradictory nature of informed opinion and advice in the foreign language field today. It goes on to consider such controversial topics as the introduction of the written symbol, teaching the language versus teaching about it, teaching culture, the usefulness of FLES, and individualization. The…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Cultural Education, FLES, Grammar
Stack, Edward M. – 1966
Since the audiolingual forms of a foreign language (hearing and speaking) must be controlled before the graphic skills (reading and writing) are taught, exercises in a language laboratory, which affords students intensive, active, individual drill, ought to precede written exercises on the same material. The three major forms of language…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Electronic Classrooms, Equipment Maintenance, Equipment Standards
American Association of Teachers of French. – 1964
This report characterizes the reading experience which develops as the outgrowth and normal extension of a sound audiolingual FLES program. General teaching procedures and techniques are described. The reading process exists in three stages: the prereading phase, the initial reading stage, and the real reading stage. The length of the prereading…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Elementary Education, FLES, French
LUTZ, STEVEN; AND OTHERS – 1967
THIS CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR A FRENCH FLES PROGRAM, FEATURING EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION IN COMBINATION WITH CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION BY LANGUAGE SPECIALISTS, REFLECTS FIVE YEARS' EXPERIENCE WITH THE PROGRAM IN PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND. THE PROGRAM FOR GRADES 4, 5, AND 6 DESCRIBED IN THIS GUIDE HAS BEEN EVALUATED, IMPROVED, AND IMPLEMENTED AT THE…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Aids, Course Content, Course Objectives
POLITZER, ROBERT L. – 1965
THE AMBIGUITY AND AMBIVALENCE THAT CHARACTERIZE ALL DISCUSSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS PERTAINING TO LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODOLOGY ARE DERIVED FROM THE "DOUBLE NATURE" OF THE SUBJECT. TO COMPLICATE THE SITUATION FURTHER, THERE IS NO CERTAINTY THAT EITHER THE "CONDITIONED" OR "CONCEPTUAL" MODES OF LANGUAGE LEARNING REALLY COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER. THE…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Concept Teaching, Conditioning
Keesee, Elizabeth – 1965
To assist FLES teachers, language teaching techniques are described and illustrated with sample materials in Spanish and French. These materials usually illustrate techniques for the middle and upper elementary school grades, and would also be pertinent for other languages. There are sections on listening comprehension, pronunciation, dialogs,…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Aids, Curriculum Guides, Educational Testing
HAYMAN, JOHN L., JR.; JOHNSON, JAMES T., JR. – 1963
THIS REPORT, BY MEANS OF NUMEROUS STATISTICAL TABLES ANALYZING THE RESULTS OF SPEAKING AND LISTENING COMPREHENSION TESTS, EXPLORES THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF VARIOUS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES USED TO SUPPLEMENT THE BASIC TELEVISED INSTRUCTION FOR FIFTH- AND SIXTH-GRADE SPANISH PUPILS, AND THE INTERACTION EXISTING AMONG VARIOUS COMBINATIONS OF…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Educational Television, Electronic Equipment
Jackson, Mary H. – 1975
This review of the state of foreign language education in the United States notes that early grammar-translation methods gave way to the Army Method during World War II. Students learned both inductively and deductively and acquired primarily oral-aural competence, with reading and writing as secondary goals. Not until the late 1950s did the…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Cognitive Processes, FLES
Peer reviewedJohnston, Marjorie C. – Review of Educational Research, 1961
The marked growth in foreign language instruction during the 1957-1960 period is noted and is attributed to the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) of 1958, to the establishment of language laboratory facilities, to the wider use of audiovisual aids and teaching machines, and to the application of linguistic science to language teaching.…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Bibliographies, Electromechanical Aids, FLES
