The guides have been written to help teachers provide effective instruction for children who do not speak English as their native language. The guides have been planned for use in the primary grades and have been written on two levels of difficulty. The first level contains 128 lessons, the second 115, and each provides instruction for…

The guides have been written to help teachers provide effective instruction for children who do not speak English as their native language. The guides have been planned for use in the primary grades and have been written on two levels of difficulty. The first level contains 128 lessons, the second 115, and each provides instruction for…

This 12-weeks course in basic Swahili comprises 55 lesson units in five volumes. The general course format consists of (1) perception drills for comprehension, oral production, and association using "situational picture" illustrations; (2) dialogs in English and Swahili, with cartoon guides; (3) sequenced pattern and recombination drills, and (4)…

This paper reports how Finnish student teachers and pupils rate the importance of objectivies in English language instruction, and compares them with ratings of inservice teachers from a previous study. Forty-two teachers from post-graduate teacher-training schools and 131 students, aged approximately 17, from two schools, were involved. Student…

This Middlebury College summer 1974 commencement address is an informal presentation of the author's experiences as a language learner. The effectiveness of such pedagogical methods as the grammar-translation, audio-lingual, and "balanced" approaches, and of language learning with the aid of an informant, is discussed. It is concluded that, given…

These volumes are the first two in a series of structured reading materials for classes in English as a foreign language. These readers may be used to give initial training in reading to non-native speakers, or as supplementary material with other English language teaching texts. Each book is designed to give practice not only in reading but also…

Vanderbilt University's 1969 EPDA Summer In-Service Institute for Training in Portuguese was a flexible, dual program in the fields of foreign language (specifically Portuguese) and English as a second language. Objectives were to provide: (1) adequately trained personnel to maintain and develop existing conventional secondary school Portuguese…

The present volume comprises an introductory course to spoken siSwati, an African language of the Niger-Congo group, also referred to as Swazi. The materials have two principle components, "Understanding siSwati" and "Speaking siSwati," each consisting of a series of "Cycles." The purpose of the U.S. component is to give the student an opportunity…

This eight-volume audiolingual course in programmed English for Italian students appears with instructions and grammatical explanations in Italian and numerous illustrations. Special attention is given to contrastive pronunciation problems. The materials, intended for use on the beginning level, are accompanied by tapes. (AMM)

Critical of the language instruction which students receive in elementary and secondary schools, the author examines the teaching potential of televised instruction. Foreign language instruction in the elementary school is noted to be particularly weak. Discussion of an experiment involving some 800 children in 4th and 5th grades suggests that…

The 18 lesson units in this three-volume tape-recorded course in Quiche represent a first attempt to present the modern spoken language of approximately 400,00 inhabitants of the central highlands of Guatemala. (A brief description of the language background and the research involved is given in the Foreword.) The lesson format includes a…

The present volumes comprise the first three of a forthcoming six-volume series in a comprehensive course in English as a second or foreign language for students of high school or college age. Materials are graded in content and selected for their "natural and conversational" form. Each Volume contains 20 units based on the following format: a…

These two volumes comprise Lesson Units 42-55 (Volume IV), and a comprehensive Glossary (Volume V) which accompanies this 12-week Defense Language Institute course in beginning Japanese. (See AL 002 223 for Volume I--Introduction and Lesson Units 1-15, and AL 002 224 for Volumes II and III--Lesson Units 16-27 and 28-41.) (AMM)

This Baluchi text is intended for use in a one-year elementary course which meets (ideally) at least five classroom hours per week, with one or two more hours of practice in the language laboratory. It is designed to be used with a Baluchi native informant and a linguist, although the tapes prepared by the authors may, if necessary, replace the…

This handbook, based on the author's experience of supervising the English practice-classes of trainee teachers, was originally compiled for the specific use of students at the National University of Trujillo, Peru, and consists of a list of pointers embracing the most prevalent of trainees' shortcomings observed over a period of years at all…