ALTHOUGH CAUTIOUS TRADITIONALISM, TEXT AVAILABILITY, LITERARY VALUE, AND PREFERRED LANGUAGE USAGE APPEAR TO FAVOR USING READING TEXTS BASED ON 19TH-CENTURY CLASSICS IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE COURSES, AMERICAN STUDENTS, WHO IN THEIR CAREERS WILL NEED TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE CURRENT GENERATION IN RUSSIA, WILL FIND AN EXPOSURE TO MODERN READINGS MORE…

FOLLOWING THE FORMAT OF "MODERN CHINESE FOR THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, FIRST YEAR," WHICH INTRODUCED IN YALE ROMANIZATION THE BASIC SPEECH SOUNDS AND SIMPLE SPEECH PATTERNS OF SPOKEN MANDARIN CHINESE, THIS VOLUME PRESENTS NEW AND MORE COMPLICATED SPEECH PATTERNS AND EXTENDED VOCABULARY AS WELL AS A SIMPLIFIED INTRODUCTION TO THE WRITING…

THE NEED IN LANGUAGE STUDY FOR CULTURAL CONTENT, IN THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SENSE (I.E., FOR CULTURAL REFERENTS OF LINGUISTIC UNITS), HAS GROWN WITH THE INCREASED EMPHASIS ON ORAL PROFICIENCY AND THE ABILITY TO FUNCTION IN THE TARGET LANGUAGE. INCORPORATING CULTURE INTO THE LANGUAGE PROGRAM CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED ON THE SECONDARY LEVEL BY HAVING THE…

These curriculum materials from the Whiteriver (Arizona) Elementary School consist of--(1) an English-Apache word list of some of the most commonly used words in Apache, 29p.; (2) a list of enclitics with approximate or suggested meanings and illustrations of usage, 5 p.; (3) an illustrated chart of Apache vowels and consonants, various written…

The author's analysis of reading material content of second language texts examines achievement of graphemic-phonemic contrasts, sequence of association in the process of reading, and control of sounds, grammar, subject matter, and cultural content. Because the orthography-sound association skill cannot be separated from the sound-meaning skill,…

This study attempted to determine whether or not there is a relationship between creativity, or divergent thinking, and bilingualism in fifth- and sixth-grade Florida students (20 monolingual Americans, 16 Greek-Americans, 17 Spanish-Americans, and 18 Czech-Americans). To assess the degree of bilingualism, the "Adapted Hoffman Bilingual Schedule"…

This 1967 symposium on the arts, sponsored by the Georgia Center for Continuing Education and the Institute of Community and Area Development, included speeches and panel discussions involving artists, educators, and community and government leaders from Georgia and elsewhere. The keynote address on the transformation of American culture was…

This curriculum guide for Wisconsin's secondary school German programs begins with a section on guiding principles, briefly covering such concepts as the nature of language, the length of language study, language selection, the place of English in the foreign language classroom, the place of grammar, and the prereading phase of second language…

This audiolingual course in Indonesian consists of 102 lesson units; Volumes I-XI. (Volume I is in two separately bound sections.) The lessons are designed to train beginning students to Level 3 proficiency in comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing Indonesian. (This scale rates native speakers on Level 5.) Units consist of perception drills…

This book presents a series of articles on non-sexist early childhood education based on reports presented at the Conference on Non-Sexist Early Childhood Education held in October, 1976. Specific areas considered include problems of sexism and racism in education, social psychology and early childhood socialization, sex typing influences in play,…

The new emphasis on combining language and culture teaching finds all teachers busy updating and improving their materials. However, feedback on how successful they are in their attempts is limited. Revealing insights into the image of Germany held by high school students can be gained from the 1974 and 1975 essays, written by applicants for the…

This guide reconstructs the curricula taught in Vietnam at the elementary level. It includes the underlying educational principles and lists the subjects along with the number of hours they are taught. The curriculum for each of the first five compulsory grades is presented separately, and four charts give overall statistics. The intent of the…

This book is intended to serve as a supplementary text for the study of the sociology of education at the beginning level. The authors place heavy emphasis on the work of ten foremost authorities in the field of sociology of education and draw on the theories of more generalized sociologists as well. Throughout the book, the practical implications…

This final report describes a project begun in 1962 which was designed to analyze the effect of home and maternal influence on the cognitive development of urban preschool children evaluated when they were four years old. The research group consisted of 163 mother-child pairs from three socioeconomic status levels: middle class, skilled working…

To assist young Americans to handle conflicting values, a plan was devised whereby, through a study of the shorter works of Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, 192 college sophomores from two black Southern colleges examined major controversial issues, made choices, and were provided with vicarious experience through which they could gain an…