THE NATIVE SPEAKER WHO SERVES AS A TEACHER AIDE CAN PLAY A DECISIVE ROLE IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAM IF THE COOPERATING TEACHER CAREFULLY PLANS HIS WORK BUT ALLOWS FOR FLEXIBILITY IN SCHEDULING HIS DUTIES. AS A RESOURCE PERSON THE AIDE CAN LEND AUTHENTICITY TO THE LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE, IN BOTH SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURAL ENRICHMENT. HE CAN…

This paper assessing the development of libraries in Chile focuses on the public library movement. An introductory section on the historical, economic, technological, and educational background of Chile is provided, as well as a discussion of the adverse effect of the military regime on the country's cultural life. The main part of the paper…

This paper attempts to answer the question of what life was really like in ancient Rome, with a view to using this kind of information as cultural background for teaching Latin language and literature. There were many problems associated with daily living in ancient Rome. Writings of some inhabitants of ancient Rome attest to the fact that these…

Written in 1966, the author examines the evolution of teaching in relation to the development of the elementary social studies course, Man: A Course of Study. The act of teaching is traced from play practice of primates to teaching-in-context of primitive societies to the more complex abstract teaching in separate schools of contemporary society.…

An attempt is made to define and describe culture for foreign language teachers, particularly those involved in the earlier phases of instruction. Reasons advanced for the inclusion of culture in language study center around the light it sheds on the real meanings of the target language. Projects, activities, and reports on culture in the language…

This article discusses language planning activities at the East-West Culture Learning Institute in Hawaii. Activities have been planned to facilitate and orient the use of the language planning approach by practitioners who have increasingly focused on the relation of development and modernization to language, and need to understand how language…

This two-volume set of 18 tape-recorded lesson units represents a first attempt at preparing a course in the modern spoken language of some 300,000 inhabitants of the peninsula of Yucatan, the Guatemalan department of the Peten, and certain border areas of Belize. (A short account of the research and background of this material is given in the…

Because the author believes that one learns more through sight than through language and learns it more quickly and comprehensively, he feels that television is the most likely medium to revolutionize the process of education. He explores the possibilities of creating a visual culture via television, basing his proposals on an examination of the…

These materials comprise Volumes 1-13 in the Defense Language Institute's Basic Course Series in Serbo-Croatian. The format follows the DLI language text series, which employ audiolingual methodology and are designed to be used in the classroom with native instructors. The course aims to train native English language speakers to Level 3…

A study was undertaken to learn if the values of American culture from 1850-1964 were reflected in children's books of that period. Themes in the books were categorized, and the books were related to the historical, political, and social events of their year of publication. Only children's literature, fiction, and "trade" books published in…

These two volumes contain Lesson Units 16-41 in the Defense Language Institute's 12-week course in Japanese. (See AL 002 223 for Volume I, Lessons Units 1-15 and AL 002 225 for Volume IV, Lesson Units 42-55 and Volume V, Glossary.) (AMM)

This preliminary edition of the Foreign Service Institute's text in elementary Hindi is intended to "make it possible for students to begin using Hindi, from the first hour of class, to obtain information and exchange opinions about topics which are important to them." It is based on Stevick's "Microwave" style of lesson…

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…

This beginning text in Navaho, based on techniques developed by Frank C. Laubach, introduces the symbols for each of the sounds separately and then in words and simple sentences. The illustrations which accompany the symbols serve to reinforce the sound/letter association. See AL 002 251 for the supplementary volume, "Charts and Teaching…

The three major objectives of intercultural education are to help people effectively manage encounters among culturally different individuals, competently move in and out of culturally diverse settings, and skillfully utilize resources of human culture in creating new settings. At present, schools and the social studies profession are not…