Describes an experiment at Birkbeck College, University of London, designed to encourage the spontaneous, uninhibited use of French by students. (PMP)

Foreign language instruction, particularly the learning of new vocabulary, could greatly benefit from the structural description of semantic fields. Examples are provided. (Text is in German.) (DS)

Describes a reading program instituted in an orphanage, including the teaching methods and instructional materials used. (RB)

The direction that college and university instruction must move to is to a more informal structure of teaching procedures. Moving from a formal to an informal classroom can be accomplished by use of a series of changes that can be implemented easily over a short period of time. (Author)

This journal section contains 25 articles dealing with the field of sexual counseling. Each approach to sexual problems is deeply involved in refining its own theoretical statements, developing its clinical techniques, and implementing a research program. This issue should be helpful to persons wanting a broad look at the field of sexual…

The author outlines and discusses nine suggestions that will aid the teacher in educating students in the "art" of listening. (BP)

Addressograph Multigraph's training facility brings field personnel in and also creates courses to be sent out. (Author)

The ILS program called "Learning With Young Children", which stressed the use of interdisciplinary learning and provides students with legitimate academic alternatives, is discussed. Questions from the student daily logs conclude each section. (BP)

The School of Home Economics at the University of Nevada--Reno designed a programed learning course in nutrition that could be studied at home with resources of programed materials, self-tests, and telephone conferences. (BP)

A course in Life Support Systems that has been adapted to increased class size is described. The curriculum includes lectures, seminars, laboratory demonstrations and operating room and intensive care rounds to introduce the student to life support concepts. (Author/PG)

Differences in teaching styles have conventionally been described in terms of ill-defined dichotomies. The aim of the present study was to provide a more adequate representation of teaching practices by creating a typology based on the self-reported strategies of primary school teachers. (Editor)

Basing their conclusions on studies in which (1) textbook problems were classified by students and parents and (2) texts were coded on several variables (e.g. sexually stereotyped occupations), the authors find textbooks are biased. They suggest several teacher strategies for countering this bias. (SD)

Thirteen multidisciplinary, student involving teaching techniques center on the environment and particularly the need for energy conservation, through concepts such as stewardship, scarcity, planning, valuing, survival, and interdependence. (DE)