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Download full textDefense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1975
The second of 20 volumes of lessons designed for use in a full-time, intensive training program in Arabic is presented. In each lesson grammatical patterns and vocabulary are taught through explanations, vocabulary lists, dialogues, audiolingual drills, question-answer and free oral expression exercises. A review lesson is included after every…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adult Education, Arabic, Audiolingual Methods
Brown, Kenneth L.; And Others – 1979
The first of two related documents, this volume reviews the state of the art of assessment in speaking and listening and recommends guidelines for evaluation and development of testing instruments. The first chapter recommends criteria for evaluating assessment instruments and practices; the second chapter reviews 71 published and unpublished…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Listening Comprehension Tests, Listening Skills, Mastery Tests
Brown, Kenneth L.; And Others – 1979
The second of two related documents, this volume consists of four appendixes of data referred to in the first volume. Appendix A makes up the major portion of the report and contains abstracts and ratings of 71 test instruments categorized by skill area and educational level. Appendix B contains the results of the 1978-79 survey of the status of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Bibliographies, Listening Comprehension Tests, Listening Skills
Peer reviewedMathieu, Gustave – Review of Educational Research, 1962
This history of the language laboratory and the factors influencing its growth are briefly traced. Materials and equipment are described, and the problems involved in a laboratory operation are indicated. Also considered is the use of the language laboratory as a teaching machine and as a research device for education in general. A bibliography…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Centers, Autoinstructional Aids, Bibliographies
Marashi, Mehdi – 1975
This volume contains achievement tests designed for American students who have completed second-year Persian. They are constructed on the basis of materials related to course syllabi. The tests are tailored to the needs of the conventional second-year Persian program on the college level, where emphasis is usually placed more on reading,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Language Programs, Higher Education, Language Instruction
Gray, Gordon W.; Galloway, Elizabeth B. – 1972
After a brief review of some of the literature in the teaching of language arts skills to disadvantaged children, suggestions for classroom activities are offered that lead to the following objectives: (1) Listening Skills--to develop the ability to perceive words, comprehend oral language, and evaluate information presented; (2) Oral Skills--to…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Course Objectives, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Munce, Mary Jeanette; Merriman, Derald – 1970
This report, based on the recommendations of a committee of the Illinois Classical Conference and intended to improve articulation, discusses the basic elements of each of the first three levels of foreign language learning. Desired student performance at the completion of levels 1, 2, and 3 of Latin is enumerated for reading, listening…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, Course Content, Course Objectives
Spencer, Richard E.; Seguin, Edmond L. – 1964
An experiment, using College Board Achievement Tests in German Reading and Listening Comprehension, to compare the effectiveness of earphones and loudspeakers in language test presentation is described. Related opinions, implications, and conclusions on the effectiveness of communication media in language teaching and testing are offered. (AF)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Auditory Discrimination, Educational Experiments, Experiments
PDF pending restorationButler, Mary, Ed.; Serafino, Robert, Ed. – 1969
Dr. Simon Belasco's paper "Programmed Instruction and the Psychology of Second Language Learning" explores basic assumptions held by curriculum designers and teachers concerning the possibility of second language acquisition in an artificial, unicultural, and contrived classroom environment. Concepts relating to scope and sequence, New Key…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Auditory Training, Conditioning, Language Fluency
Richterich, Rene; And Others – 1969
This trilingual handbook (English, French, German) presents exercises for eight areas of language instruction: (1) practice in sentence patterns, (2) presentation and practice of a new item, (3) pronunciation, (4) use of pictures, (5) practicing the transfer from oral to written skills, (6) presentation and practice of conversational patterns, (7)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Aids, Auditory Discrimination
Allen, Virginia G. – 1974
FLES programs are generally viewed from the vertical dimension, as the beginning classes in a continuing language program. This paper treats the horizontal dimension, the interrelationship of the foreign language program with other curricula such as literature, history, and language arts. Three current trends in language arts have implications for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education, FLES
Gerken, Kathryn Clark; Deichmann, John W. – 1976
This study investigated the relationship of dialect and race of five and six-year old boys to a listener's ability to report the oral response of boys to ten vocabulary items from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC). A group of 20 black and 20 white college students viewed videotapes of eight first grade boys who represented four…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Black Dialects, College Students, Communication Problems
Martin, Sabrina Budasi; Garcia, Paula – 1997
The set of materials are designed for the assessment of literacy, English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL), listening and reading comprehension, and/or job-related skills of factory workers, and are based on work-related tasks. The materials consist of instructions for administering the test, a picture prompt booklet for the test administrator to use…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Field Tests, Interviews
El-Koumy, Abdel Salam A. – 2000
The purpose of this study was to determine the relative impact of skills-based and whole language approaches on the listening comprehension of English as a foreign language (EFL) students with low and high listening ability levels. The subjects for the study were 96 pretested EFL students, divided into two treatment groups for 15 weeks. In the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Alberta Learning, Edmonton. Direction de l'education francaise. – 1999
The materials in this document present the results of a study of French native language testing in Alberta (Canada) public schools for grades 1-3 based on the curriculum instituted in 1998. As a result of the study, this collection was developed for grades 1-3 students who should be taught French as a first language. A separate section is devoted…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries, French
