THIS COURSE IS PROGRAMED FOR SELF-INSTRUCTION AND SELF-TESTING AND IS APPROPRIATE FOR TEACHING EDUCATED ADULT SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH WITH NO TRAINING IN LINGUISTICS ENOUGH HAITIAN CREOLE TO "GET AROUND" IN HAITI. THE CORE OF THE COURSE IS THE MATERIAL PRESENTED AND DRILLED ON TAPES. THE STUDENT LISTENS TO EXPLANATIONS IN ENGLISH OF…

Defends the direct method in teaching Chinese. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, November 27, 1971, in Chicago, Illinois. (DS)

Reforms in French Schools in 1965 for the teaching of English as a second language recommended an audiolingual approach to replace the grammar translation method. Research indicates that both in methodology and in materials the new approach has been effective. (DS)

The textbook under discussion, "Ich spreche Deutsch" by Heinz Griesbach and Dora Schulz (London-Harlow: Longmans-Hueber, 1966), is intended to be a one-year introduction to German, particularly for less academic pupils and students. (FWB)

THIS PUBLICATION REPRESENTS A 1-YEAR COURSE IN LITERARY ARABIC FOR THE SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL. AN AUDIOLINGUAL APPROACH IS TAKEN, EMPHASIZING, AT FIRST, ORAL COMMUNICATION AND CORRECT PRONUNCIATION, AND INTRODUCING ARABIC SCRIPT AFTER SPOKEN LANGUAGE ELEMENTS ARE MASTERED. (GD)

This manual is designed to provide oral practice supplementary to Section II of T.W. Clark's "Introduction to Nepali" (Cambridge, 1963). The 27 chapters contain dialogs, narrative descriptions, drills, exercises, suggestions for guided conversation practice, notes on the grammar and culture, and references to the grammatical analyses in…

These six volumes are designed for use in the Foreign Service Institute's basic audiolingual course in Dari (Kabuli or Afghan Persian). The course consists of 60 lessons, each having three main parts: (1) basic sentences and drills, (2) dialogues, and (3) an English-Dari vocabulary list. Many of the later lessons include additional sentences that…

This teaching manual, designed to accompany AL 002 252, presents step-by-step instructions for teaching the first six lessons in "Haa'isha' Da'iidiiltah." Suggestions for teaching the succeeding lessons, following the same format, are outlined. Notes on teaching writing and illustrations showing the order of strokes for letters and…

Describes an advanced programed course Deutsch sprechen -- Deutsch verstehen'' (Speak German -- Understand German) developed at Kiel University, West Germany. (RS)

Paper is published with bilingual text. (DS)

IF STATISTICS WERE AVAILABLE ON THE DROPOUT RATE AND UNSATISFACTORY ACHIEVEMENT OF COLLEGE STUDENTS TAKING RUSSIAN, THEY WOULD PROBABLY SUPPORT THE WIDELY HELD OPINION THAT RUSSIAN IS DIFFICULT. THE DIFFICULTY IS ATTRIBUTABLE LARGELY TO THE FACT THAT RUSSIAN IS NEITHER A GERMANIC NOR A ROMANCE LANGUAGE, AND STUDENTS THUS FIND IT HARD TO RECOGNIZE…