Central to this article is the belief that students learn best when permitted to exercise their imagination while studying foreign-language literary works. A teaching technique, demonstrating the author's approach to poetry and vocabulary expansion, emphasizes the active role students play in utilizing new vocabulary. Examples of how students may…

"Carrascolendas" is a bilingual instructional television program, patterned after "Sesame Street", which is designed to introduce Mexican-American children to the dominant American culture and yet encourage them to retain part of their own cultural identity. The program also seeks to maximize the child's chances of success in…

This paper questions whether the same theoretical model of educational policy decisions can be used for bilingual as well as bidialectal education. Three basic policies are discussed, first in applications for second language learning and then in the field of teaching a second dialect. Generally speaking, the same theoretical models are applicable…

This volume of the Defense Language Institute's "German Basic Course" is concerned primarily with the pronunciation of German and introduces the most common structural patterns. Vocabulary development includes some 575 new words. Fifteen lessons, intended for use in an intensive program, focus on development of basic audiolingual skills. Lessons…

This is a listing of recorded drills to accompany lessons 1-45 in "Elementary Modern Standard Arabic." Those recorded drills which are written out in the textbook are referred to in this list, but are not written out. Those recorded drills which are not found in the textbook are written out in this listing for the convenience of the…

The effects of varying the sequence of frames in a self-instructional program on the instructional outcomes of achievement, interest in learning, and attitudes toward programed instruction were investigated. Thirty-nine 6th grade Spanish classes were randomly assigned to a program with an orderly progression or a scrambled order of frames. The…

The Edmonds Learning Style Identification Exercise was developed as an instrument for teachers to determine a student's most natural learning mode in order to provide mode-effective counseling with individualized instruction or other teaching methods to accommodate different learning styles. (RM)

Planning, Programming Budgeting System (PPBS) is advocated for foreign language instruction as a means of helping schools set objectives, determine priorities, decide on a plan of action, measure the results, evaluate, and make future decisions. (Author/RM)

The acquisition of a correct pronunciation should be attempted at the earliest possible age. At the primary level, songs, rhymes and games are useful for teaching pronunciation. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

A method of teaching academic vocabulary to the intermediate to advanced EFL graduate students is discussed. Academic vocabulary includes non-technical vocabulary used in the research process, analysis and evaluation. Criteria for selecting academic vocabulary items are explained. Selected items and sample exercises for each area are given. (SCC)

The article shows six ways in which communicative competence can be increased. The six sections show how the foreign language student can acquire competence in expressing (as an example) the concept "irritation". For each definition of "irritation," many examples are given. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

It is asserted that many students cannot cope with a totally self-pacing individualized instruction program. A multiple-tract plan is described which does not restrict the learner who is able to proceed at an accelerated pace and which offers a considerable amount of flexibility to other students. (Author/RM)

The language learning room planned for the French Language Training Center proposed for Simon Fraser University is described. It is planned to accommodate a variety of pedagogical philosophies and programs--lockstep audiovisual, lockstep audiolingual, individualized audiolingual, and other tried or experimental approaches. (Author/RM)

This article reports on an experimental French course and the extent to which it influenced student attitudes and motivation. (CLK)

This article deals with the role of attitudes in second language acquisition suggested by a social psychological interpretation of the processes involved, and examines several extracurricular programs designed to improve student attitudes and motivation. (CLK)