This article comments on Gilbert A. Jarvis'"Teacher Education Goals: They're Tearing Up the Street Where I Was Born" in the December 1972 issue of "Foreign Language Annals." Remarks concerning teacher education, methods courses, teaching strategies, the audiolingual method of language instruction, and the Modern Language Association "Guidelines"…

Results of a survey conducted in the Spring of 1969 by the Washington Foreign Language Program and local school districts of recent graduates from the University of Washington are presented in this report. Information concerning the background and experiences of 52 practicing teachers in seven urban and suburban districts is summarized in tables…

Educational research and development projects funded by the English Schools Council are listed under the following headings: English; Humanities; Languages; Creative Studies; Mathematics; Science; Inter-related Studies; Welsh; School, Home and Community; School Organization and Resources; and Examinations. For each project the title, the location…

Abstracts of three papers on individuated instruction center on the need for a redefinition of terminology and continued research of its implications in the teaching of foreign languages. The abstracted papers include: (1) Howard Altman's "Toward A Definition of Individualized Instruction," (2) Barbara Gordon's "The Speech Community of the School…

This survey of profession-wide accomplishments and failures in foreign language instruction, characteristic of the last two decades, is complemented by suggestions intended to spur teachers and educational institutions into initiating improvements in curriculum development considered to be vital to the survival of the foreign language profession.…

This report describes the nature and scope of a national survey of language and area programs in the United States of America in 1968-69. An analysis of the various programs or a typology of programs was developed by taking each of the characteristics of the overall program--its area and language courses, and its faculty--and cross-tabulating them…

Von Humboldt wrote in 1836 that "....one cannot really teach language but can only present the conditions under which it will develop spontaneously in the mind in its own way..." The author critically illustrates his reasons for supporting this theory of language learning. Concluding remarks summarize advantages and disadvantages of using…

THE PROBLEM WITH WHICH THIS REPORT DEALS IS PART OF A LARGER AND MORE BASIC PROBLEM FACING FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES - REDEFINING THE ENDS OF THE INSTRUCTION OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT AND DISCOVERING MORE ADEQUATE CURRICULAR MEANS THAN ARE USED AT PRESENT TO IMPLEMENT THOSE ENDS. SECTION ONE OF THE REPORT FOCUSES ON THE…

Recent political events have triggered a revolution in the Tibetan language. The entrance of Tibet into the world arena of politics, science and technology has led to the creation of thousands of new lexical items in a relatively short period of time. Because of these changes, modern literary Tibetan is extremely difficult for non-Tibetans to…

Gives lists, under the names of the various states of the Federal Republic of Germany, of the most important state institutions and publications concerned with curricula, chiefly in English and French, but also in Spanish, Italian, Russian and Dutch. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

A summary of the study of false cognates by Koessler and Derocquigny. The following topics are studied: The origin and meaning of the term; a classification according to monosemy or polysemy; false cognates on the multilingual level and in language families; and extensions of meaning. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Presents techniques from Writing Across the Curriculum adapted to the foreign language classroom. Strategies for encouraging students to write more effectively in the foreign language are described. The strategies include assigning relevant topics, treating writing as a process, and responding to and evaluating student writing in a more…

Discusses the foreign language tests constructed by the Natonal Bureau of Education in Stockholm that Swedish students take during their school career. Looks at tests dealing with productive skills (written and spoken), tests dealing with comprehension (listening and reading), and tests that are a mixture of comprehension and productive skills.…

Describes the Interactive Tour Schema, a course modeled on the relationship between a guide and the tourists who make use of his or her services. The structure of the course requires excursions away from the classroom and to various campus and off-campus locations where tours are given by student tour guides. (SED)

Refutes earlier ideas that encouraging bilingualism at a young age retards learning and causes behavioral problems, confusion and anxiety. Considers as sources of learning problems, long overlooked factors such as socioeconomic status, minority affiliation, and society's attitude toward the language of instruction or the dominant language.…