This annotated bibliography on the teaching of modern foreign languages was prepared by the West German documentation center dealing with foreign language research. The center has an information dissemination service which closely resembles the Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics of the ERIC system (ERIC/CLL). This bibliography, published…

This paper is a description of a college-level instructional program put into operation in the face of the obvious need for individualization of foreign language instruction. The program represents a compromise solution between the limitations presented by institutions and students on the one hand, and the need for greater flexibility on the…

This book deals with the pedagogical, personal, and theoretical contexts of foreign language teaching. Part 1, on the pedagogical context, discusses the psychology of language learning, individualized language instruction, new directions in language teaching, and the role of pattern drills in language teaching. Part 2, on the personal context,…

This course offers students the opportunity to read and listen to 19th and 20th century Spanish short stories as well as moral, literary, and satirical fables of different epochs. (Several of the fables are included.) The student is thus exposed to new vocabulary and to the literary form of the short story. The authors represented here belong to…

This is the eighth volume in a continuing series of papers on the teaching of English as a second language. The 14 papers included here represent work in progress and cover a wide range of topics. In the first paper, E. Hatch summarizes recent studies in language switching and mixing. Specific ESL teaching techniques are suggested in articles by…

A comprehensive account of the origin and development of the basic contributions to the field of language instruction is thematically developed in this text. Major sections treat: (1) methodology, including the teaching of meaning, grammar, and pronunciation; (2) linguistic habit formation concerning speech, reading, and writing; (3) curriculum…

This survey of teacher training programs and teacher attitudes, made in the fall of 1969, considers two broad areas of interest. One part was prepared to obtain information regarding foreign language teacher training programs and practices at colleges and universities in California. An opinionnaire, completed by 934 California language teachers,…

Teachers are urged to improve their teaching through the effective use of pattern drills by examining the construction and function of the drills. Forty-eight questions with answers elaborate upon generalities and technicalities of drill design and their classroom use. (RL)

This teaching aid to the Nuffield French Course offers instructions for the making of puppets and a puppet theater, and a set of dialogues and simple plays. Suggestions are made for using the puppets with the course, and indications of when to introduce each dialogue or play are included. Dialogues designed for units 1-20 and six plays for units…

A description of the audiolingual nature of second languages as they are learned by all children introduces this discussion of the suitability of teaching foreign languages to the visually handicapped and the added dimension it would give to life. The role of the language laboratory in learning a foreign language is stressed. An annotated…

The relation of the linguistic sciences to language teaching and language learning is explored. Part 1 discusses linguistics, phonetics, and their place in the description of language. Relations between language and the people who use it are examined, as well as the place of comparison and translation in the acquisition of a second language. Part…

A landmark in the literature of linguistic pedagogy is presented in this reprint of a book first published in 1899. The broad scope of this practical guide to the study of language includes extensive material on phonetic notation, general and special principles of method, grammar, vocabulary, translation, original language investigation,…

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…

Concepts pertaining to the language laboratory are clarified for the layman unfamiliar with recent educational developments in foreign language instruction. These include discussion of: (1) language laboratory components and functions, (2) techniques used in the laboratory, (3) new linguistic methods, (4) laboratory exercises, (5) traditional…

Collected articles on the teaching of Russian in England acknowledge the importance of increased study opportunities based on modern language instruction methodology. Individual papers treat: (1) the purpose of teaching modern languages in schools, (2) the approach to language learning in educational institutions, (3) the role of the mother tongue…