This paper suggests methods for teaching the Russian verbs that govern what are loosely termed "objects" in oblique cases. The case government of such verbs is not necessarily an individual irregularity. Definite patterns emerge, both morphological and semantic, to facilitate grouping these verbs into classes. Russian verbs requiring genitive…

This report describes the first year of a two-year experimental, transitional kindergarten program for children whose mother tongue is Italian. Begun in Toronto, Canada as the result of pressure from both the ethnic community and from educators, the program is designed to run for the two years of kindergarten (junior and senior). The bilingual…

Foreign language teaching is currently in a state of flux, as is natural when any discipline is undergoing basic theoretical and procedural revision. The behaviorist trends applied to the audio-lingual habit theory were a major break-through for foreign language teaching, and skills ignored by the grammar-translation method were brought to the…

Dialogs are an effective tool for language acquisition and for transmission of cultural material. Much of the apparent confusion about how they should be used in the language classroom results from a failure to distinguish the ages and levels of proficiency of those for whom the dialogs are designed. The great advantage that dialogs have over…

In viewing the approach to English and other grammars in the light of linguistic universals, the author feels that the principal justification for deep structure analysis of English is that "deep structure analyses of all the languages of our multilingual world in combination can serve as a genuinely scientific basis of a defensible universal…

A replication of the first study of Sweden's GUME/Adults Project (Methods of Teaching English to Adults, Gothenburg School of Education) was conducted in 1971. Both experiments were designed to determine which of two language learning theories, "audiolingual habit" or "cognitive code-learning," provides a better basis for teaching foreign language…

At the Institut Universitaire de Technologie in Nancy, France, most English language teaching has been organized on a mixed extensive/intensive pattern. As a result of certain negative effects of the established "session intensive," another methodology was tried, called "session libre." This session involved several techniques:…

The Informationszentrum fur Fremdsprachenforschung (IFS) (information center dealing with foreign language research) is part of a West German information dissemination system that is similar to ERIC. This annotated bibliography, published quarterly by the IFS, lists items compiled in conjunction with the ERIC/CLL as well as with a number of…

The Informationszentrum fur Fremdsprachenforschung (IFS) (information center dealing with foreign language research) is part of a West German information dissemination system that is similar to ERIC. This annotated bibliography, published quarterly by the IFS, lists items compiled in conjunction with the ERIC/CLL as well as with a number of…

The Informationszentrum fur Fremdsprachenforschung (IFS) (information center dealing with foreign language research) is part of a West German information dissemination system that is similar to ERIC. This annotated bibliography, published quarterly by the IFS, lists items compiled in conjunction with the ERIC/CLL as well as with a number of…

This collection of papers directed toward the teacher of English as a second language (ESL) and the teacher of standard English as a second dialect (ESD) is divided into three sections. The first focuses on the nature of language and second language learning with such essays as "Teaching English as a Foreign Language: An Overview,""Language and…

The Informationszentrum fur Fremdsprachenforschung (IFS) (information center dealing with foreign language research) is part of a West German information dissemination system that is similar to ERIC. This annotated bibliography, published quarterly by the IFS, lists items compiled in conjunction with the ERIC/CLL as well as with a number of…

This document is part of a West German information dissemination system that is similar to ERIC. This annotated bibliography, published quarterly by the IFS, lists items compiled in conjunction with the ERIC/CLL as well as with a number of institutions in other countries. Most of the 251 items listed in Vol. 4, No. 3 appeared in 1973 and deal…

The use of questions in the target language on reading material is an important teaching aid in developing a working command of the spoken language in introductory FL courses. The best use of reading material in the early stages of second language acquisition is as an aid to communicating in the target language. Consequently, reading material…

This guide is intended for teachers of modern languages planning to individualize their instruction. Materials include suggestions for classroom management, and the role of the teacher and the responsibility of the student for the success of his learning program are defined. A format for creating learning activity packets will assist the teacher…