Presented as a paper at the meeting of the National Association of Language Laboratory Directors (NALLD), New York, New York, December 28, 1968. (DS)

Suggests supplementing the teaching of "Beowulf" to high school students with (1) translation and grammatical analysis of parts of the original lines, (2) study of Anglo-Saxon poetic techniques, and (3) students' imitation of old English poetic techniques in New English. (SW)

This paper is a by-product of a pilot program in high school Latin which the author supervised during 1966-1970 for the Washington Foreign Language Program under a grant from the Ford Foundation. (DS)

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)

Discusses the use of computers for research in the humanities, where their characteristics of "speed, flexibility and economy make them indispensable "to the production of literary concordances, dictionaries, and data stores. (Editor/WM)

Discusses the rationale for sharing courseware between educators, describes the problems of hardware incompatibility associated with software sharing, and introduces a multilingual interpreter system which allows instructional software implemented in different computer languages and on different machines to be shared with a minimum of work. A…

Discusses some of the difficulties that arise when an Arabic-English translator is required to find cultural equivalents for words or concepts that do not exist in one of the languages. Examples are given in the areas of ecology, material culture, social culture, political culture, and religious culture. (EKN)

Examines the problems encountered in evaluating translators' work and attempts to establish criteria for an objective method of evaluation. In this respect, questions the adequacy of traditional correction and revision principles as evaluation procedures and proposes new criteria based on the function and objectives of the evaluation process. (MES)