ALTHOUGH NATHAN ROSEN'S ARTICLE IN A 1966 ISSUE OF "THE SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL" (ED 011 175) DID PINPOINT THE FACT THAT NO WORTHWHILE ACTIVE CONTROL OF THE VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF RUSSIAN COULD BE ACHIEVED IN A TRADITIONAL 2-YEAR PROGRAM, HE DID NOT, WITH HIS PROPOSED USE OF READERS WITH FACING TRANSLATIONS, OVERCOME THE…

A POSSIBLE SOLUTION FOR PROBLEMS OF MEMORY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING IS THE "GRADUATED INTERVAL RECALL," A PROCEDURE FOR AIDING STUDENTS TO REMEMBER THE VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURES THEY HAVE LEARNED. WHEN A NEW WORD IS LEARNED, THE PROCESS OF FORGETTING BEGINS AT ONCE AND PROCEEDS VERY RAPIDLY. IF THE STUDENT IS REMINDED OF THE WORD…

PROGRAMED LEARNING BASED ON CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS CAN BE USED TO OVERCOME THE PREDICTABLE ERRORS MADE BY STUDENTS LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE. THE PROGRAM, WITH A LEARNING SEQUENCE ARRANGED SO THAT STUDENTS WILL AVOID MAKING ERRORS, CAN PROVIDE PRACTICE IN THE MECHANICS OF THE LANGUAGE, BUT IT HAS LIMITATIONS, FOR A STUDENT CANNOT ENGAGE…

FOR SUCCESSFUL CURRICULUM REVISION REGARDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF READING SKILLS IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAM, THERE MUST BE CONTINUOUS EVALUATION OF EXISTING THEORIES AS WELL AS INVESTIGATION OF NEW ONES. AREAS WHICH HAVE ALREADY BEEN EVALUATED FOR THEIR USEFULNESS IN THE TEACHING OF READING IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE ARE READABILITY FORMULAS, DIRECT…

THE PROGRESS MADE IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE SKILLS SHOWS UP THE MAJOR PROBLEM OF ARTICULATION AMONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, JUNIOR AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS, AND COLLEGES, AND IT IS THIS PROBLEM THAT IS EXPLORED BY THE CALIFORNIA LIAISON COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN LANGUAGES. THE ADOPTION OF COMMON OBJECTIVES AND PROVISION FOR CONTINUITY OF LANGUAGE STUDY…

THE RESULTS OF INVESTIGATIONS CONDUCTED DURING THE PAST 6 YEARS IN SELF-INSTRUCTION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES HAVE LED RESEARCHERS TO CONCLUDE THAT TOTAL PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION SEEMS PRODUCTIVE ONLY IN CASES WHERE THE TERMINAL BEHAVIOR TO BE ACHIEVED IS VERY LIMITED. EXPERIMENTS HAVE SHOWN THAT IT IS MOST USEFUL IN MODULES AT EARLY LEVELS FOR TEACHING…

RECOMMENDATIONS AND WORK PAPERS DEVELOPED DURING A 2-DAY CONFERENCE IN 1961 WERE REPORTED. RECOMMENDATIONS WERE MADE ON (1) THE USE OF THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN THE FIRST- AND SECOND-YEAR COLLEGE CLASSROOM, (2) THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE MAJOR, (3) COLLEGE TEACHER QUALIFICATIONS, (4) TIME NECESSARY FOR MASTERY OF THE BASIC SKILLS, (5) STUDY ABROAD, AND…

A NATIONAL SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED OF 609 ACCREDITED JUNIOR COLLEGES ON SEVERAL ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE TEACHING. LANGUAGE ENROLLMENTS TOTALLED 44,809 IN 1959 AND 51,570 IN 1960. THE ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF DATA COVERED SUCH AREAS AS (1) TOTAL SUMMARY BY STATES, (2) ENROLLMENTS IN FRENCH BY STATES, (3) ENROLLMENTS IN GERMAN, (4) ENROLLMENTS IN…

An innovative approach to facilitate student mastery of Spanish linguistic structures requiring manipulation of the direct object is described in this article. The method, derived originally from William Bull's "Spanish for Teachers," also enables students to apply the transformational method to sentences containing nominalized adjectives,…

THE BACKGROUND, ESTABLISHMENT PROCEDURES, AND WORKING ACTIVITIES OF THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTITUTE PROGRAM WERE PRESENTED AS WELL AS AN ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF THE OVERALL SUCCESS OF THE PROGRAM. COLLEGE LANGUAGE CENTERS WERE SET UP ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO TEACH LANGUAGES DESIGNATED AS IMPORTANT. ALONG WITH THESE CENTERS, THE INSTITUTE PROGRAM…

Compares the intellectual fecundity and publishing rates associated with various principal modern languages and the character of library systems used to bank and lend this intellectual capital. The problem, principal languages and recorded text, sources of data for bibliolinguistics, and book production by language and nation are discussed.…

This article, reprinted from the first issue of this journal in 1916, discusses the value of a federation of modern language teachers both to individuals and to the profession. The establishing of the journal is also noted. (CHK)

Discusses existing teacher exchange and student exchange programs, open to Canadians, from the point of view of preparation and financial assistance. (RL)

Summary of the 24th annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Conference on Foreign Languages, Orcas Island, Washington, May 4-5, 1973. (RL)

Critical remarks are directed toward recent articles on foreign language instruction in American journals. (RL)