The Silent Way emphasizes knowing the student and supporting the development of his self-awareness as a learner. Silence serves two purposes. The student learns to sharpen his listening skills because the instructor gives the model once. Silence eliminates interference so that short-term memory of an utterance is not destroyed. (CFM)

The CAI system described offers instantaneous visual presentation of such features of speech prosody as intonation, rhythm, and stress. A TV screen shows both the model sentence (as the student hears it) and the student's own imitation thereof. The system allows for text management, computer-generated sound, and visualized intonation contours. (10…

This is a description of the materials developed for the language laboratory of the Ecole de Francais Moderne at the University of Lausanne. The tapes are designed to deal specifically with French phonetics, grammar, and lexicon. (AM)

Successful listening is a critical element of learning and performing in a new language. Second language teachers should include more listening activities in their class routines, and should consider a greater variety of formats and class organizational styles for those activities. The small-group format, not often used for listening activities,…

AMONG THOSE THINGS THAT HAVE AFFECTED FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING PERHAPS ADVERSELY, THE LANGUAGE LABORATORY EXEMPLIFIES WELL THE EMPHASIS PUT ON TECHNOLOGY AND ELECTRONICS AND THE TENDENCY IN OUR TIME TO "TRAIN" A PERSON RATHER THAN TO "EDUCATE" HIM. THE LANGUAGE LABORATORY CAN BE USED TO HELP STUDENTS DEVELOP AUDIOLINGUAL SKILLS, BUT IT IN NO WAY…

A BASICALLY AUDIOLINGUAL BEGINNING FRENCH COURSE WAS BROADCAST BY THE BBC AND TAPED BY TEACHERS WHO USED IT IN CONJUNCTION WITH FILMSTRIPS TO SUPPLEMENT A REGULAR LANGUAGE COURSE. THIS METHOD, CALLED RADIOVISION, IS DESCRIBED IN DETAIL IN TERMS OF ITS OVERALL OPERATION, THE KINDS OF MATERIAL INCLUDED, AND THE VARIOUS METHODS AND TECHNIQUES USED BY…

Designed for use in third-grade classes, this teacher text presents the first step in a sequential Japanese language program for elementary school children (see also ED 019 666 and AL 001 743 and 744). The complete series will include eight volumes to be covered in four years, at which time the students should be ready to join the second level in…

This second of a projected three-volume series in modern Turkish presents the principal grammatical patterns o f Turkish not covered in the first volume, with the addition o f some 2,000 vocabulary items and exercises designed to develop freer conversation skills. The same format of build-up dialogs, questions and drills on the vocabulary,…

The "Romanian Basic Course," consisting of 89 lesson units in eight volumes, is designed to train native English language speakers to Level 3 proficiency in comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing Romanian (based on a 1-5 scale in which Level 5 is native speaker proficiency). Volume 1, which introduces basic sentences in dialog…

Two basic reasons for including Oral Language Development in the instructional program are (1) to prepare students for reading instruction, and (2) to teach students how to communicate effectively in real-life situations. A child is expected to have had five or six years oral practice in a language before learning to read. When children have…

This teacher's guide contains a list of general auditory problem areas where students have the following problems: (a) inability to find or identify source of sound; (b) difficulty in discriminating sounds of words and letters; (c) difficulty with reproducing pitch, rhythm, and melody; (d) difficulty in selecting important from unimportant sounds;…

This is one of a series of self-teaching textbooks in more than 30 languages initially prepared and published for the armed forces and later offered to the general public. The method used in this manual requires either that a native speaker of German be on hand during the course or that the recorded voice of a native speaker be used. Records and…

Although receptive language organization is the foundation of all linguistic development, the evaluation of children's performance in listening to extended streams of speech is not a significant aspect of present methods of assessing children's language and reading capability. In repeated individual test sessions, 44 normal children in suburban…

Too many teachers have misguided ideas about the principles of the oral approach to teaching EFL. They are either too sure of themselves and of the theory and become complacent, or their confidence is shaken by the failure of a technique they thought to be infallible. (SCC)