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CIOFFARI, VINCENZO – 1967
IN THE LAST 20 YEARS, SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE LEARNING, RESEARCH IN STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS, AND NEWLY-DEVELOPED TECHNOLOGY HAVE BROUGHT ABOUT REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN LANGUAGE-TEACHING METHODS. TO ACHIEVE AN IDEAL METHOD, THE POSSIBILITIES INHERENT IN THIS PROGRESS MUST BE EMPLOYED, AND THE…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Educational Technology, Grammar Translation Method, Instructional Improvement
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Chabert, Henry L. – French Review, 1970
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, French, Grammar Translation Method, Language Instruction
Dodson, C. J. – 1967
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…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Aids, Bilingual Education, Educational Objectives
Walsh, Donald – 1965
Trends, developments, and special needs in foreign language instruction are discussed in this speech. Priority is given to a definition and evaluation of the language skills, and suggestions are included for mastering listening, speaking, reading, and writing aspects of second languages. Related topics of culture, literature, linguistics, language…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Cultural Context, Grammar Translation Method, Language Instruction
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
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Cunningham, Denis – Babel: Australia, 1998
Presents a history of the use of technology in second-language instruction, beginning with the 1960s and the grammar translation method; through the audiolingual movement and language laboratories; into emerging use of tape recorders, videotapes, and computer-assisted language learning; and up through computer-assisted instruction, distance…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development, Distance Education
Smith, Philip D., Jr.; Baranyi, Helmut A. – 1968
Implying the need for a reexamination of the theoretical bases for second language learning in the secondary school environment, this final report of a 2-year experiment, funded by the U.S. Office of Education and conducted in public secondary schools of Pennsylvania, involved 1,090 students of French or German in 1965-66 and almost 700 in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Curriculum Research
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Birkmaier, Emma; Lange, Dale – Review of Educational Research, 1967
This review of research in foreign language instruction summarizes and interprets selected studies produced during the period 1963-66. Topics covered include the psychology of learning, comparisons o f methods, language skills, visual-auditory relationships, vocabulary, grammar, and FLES, as well as programed instruction, technological media,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Audiolingual Methods, Bibliographies, Bilingualism