At the root of many early childhood bilingual education programs is the widespread belief that the two languages must be used and taught in different contexts, since the failure to do so would inevitably produce a single mixed language. From a study of the results achieved over a ten-year period, it would seem that, if at least one of the…

This second year volume of a 3-year course in Chinese includes a textbook, vocabulary, and character lists. A student workbook has also been designed (see FL 002 777 ). The text provided dialogues and practice in vocabulary, translation, questions, writing, and language patterns. Ideas for homework are also included. The book is divided into…

This is the second report of a longitudinal project, initiated in 1970, in which children with and without language problems are identified in French immersion and English kindergartens and closely monitored to the end of grade 3. This study investigates the desirability of early French immersion program for English-speaking children with language…

The study of Latin is especially useful in enlarging the vocabulary. The primary aims of Latin courses are to develop communication skills. Acquainting students with the culture that is embodied in the language is another objective. But benefits accessary to the study of the language are not course objectives. (Author/RM)

This first volume of a 3-year course in Chinese includes a textbook, vocabulary, and character lists. A workbook has been designed for the text (see FL 002 773). Each lesson is divided into sections involving such learning devices as pronunciation drills, pantomime, questions and answers, pattern practice, stories vocabulary, dictation, dialogues,…

This article examines the linguistic benefits of Latin in light of recent research which seems to document the relevance of Latin in building English vocabulary and reading skills. Evidence is cited from eight educational projects in which an experimental group of students taking Latin, and a control group not taking Latin, were pretested,…

This bulletin is intended to help classroom teachers who have Indochinese refugee children in their classes. In many places where there is no English as a second language (ESL) program, it is the classroom teacher and auxiliary personnel who must teach the children English sentence patterns, pronunciation and vocabulary. When more than one teacher…

This workbook accompanies the second volume (FL 002 776) of the Chinese text used in the Washington Foreign Language Program. It is organized according to the lessons in the companion textbook and provides vocabulary, substitution, pattern, transformation, translation, and expansion drills, and question and answer practice. For related documents…

Discusses how a vast and easily acquired vocabulary of cognates is one element in facilitating the development of listening and speaking skills. (NCR)

This guide to a total developmental language program for kindergarten is divided into three sections: (1) Helpful Hints to the Teacher, (2) Expanding Verbal Power, and (3) Linking Language and Thought. Subjects in Section 2 include hearing and speaking clearly, increasing vocabulary, extending meaning, expanding language patterns, conveying ideas,…

The Puerto Rican Forum's Basic Occupational Language Training (BOLT) program teaches English language skills to Spanish-speaking people, and Spanish language skills to English-speaking people. Special BOLT curricula emphasize high-skilled instructors, audio-visual and audio-lingual techniques, job-oriented vocabularies, and on-site instruction.…

It is not possible to outline a "system" of education which could be applied to all children with language handicaps. Each child with a language deviation will provide his own model and his own system of educational needs based upon the extent to which he is atypical in his language development. The disadvantaged child lacks the language facility…

Second language teaching in Germany, as described in this article, follows the "moderate direct method" and has the principle aim of enabling the students to express their own ideas in the foreign language. (FWB)

This introductory text in Japanese is closely patterned after the text "Basic Japanese for College Students" and allows for variable rates of student achievement. The romanized texts in the three-volume series contain four units consisting of 32 lessons with four review lessons. Each lesson is composed of a pattern passage, grammar,…

This introductory text in Japanese is closely patterned after the text "Basic Japanese for College Students" and allows for variable rates of student achievement. The romanized texts in the three-volume series contain four units consisting of 32 lessons with four review lessons. Each lesson is composed of a pattern passage, grammar,…