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Peace Corps, Washington, DC. – 1968
This report summarizes a study published in 1967 by Harvard University which assessed foreign language proficiency of U.S. college seniors majoring in French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Russian. The measures used were the following: the MLA Foreign Language Proficiency Tests (Form A): Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing; the Modern…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Audiolingual Skills, College Language Programs, College Students

Birch, Gary – Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations, 1983
Advocates national policy of multiculturalism and multilingualism, acquired through cohesive use of a common language (English) spoken by all Australians, yet retaining and incorporating the more than 20 major languages presently in use. Suggests provisions for efficient teaching of English and encouragement of all other community languages,…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Chinese, Czech
Clankie, Shawn M. – 2000
This paper examines efforts to save rapidly declining indigenous languages around the world. The entire process of language preservation and revitalization is a massive undertaking that requires immense long-term planning and support. These problems extend well beyond the linguistic concerns of the language itself. Language policy is inherently…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingualism, Cultural Pluralism
Djite, Paulin G. – 1994
Based on an Australian study creating sociolinguistic profiles of nine languages other than English (LOTE) commonly used in Australia, the report examines implications for public language policy and planning. The languages are: Arabic; Chinese; French; German; Modern Greek; Indonesian/Malay; Italian; Japanese; and Spanish. The report begins by…
Descriptors: Arabic, Chinese, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy
Urbanski, Henry – 1984
In response to rapidly falling foreign language enrollments, the State University of New York College at New Paltz designed and actively promoted a language immersion program in the summer of 1981. The program consisted of instruction in twelve languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian,…
Descriptors: Arabic, Chinese, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Bancroft, W. Jane – 1975
In Sofia, Bulgaria, at the Institute of Suggestology headed by Dr. Georgi Lozanov, yoga relaxation has been combined with the Mauger oral method to produce a unique system of foreign language teaching: Suggestopedia. In a pleasant classroom, 12 students sit in specail chairs in front of a teacher individually trained in the foreign language and in…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Class Activities, Class Size, Dialogs (Literary)

Benseler, David P.; Lannoch, Martha Calvert – Modern Language Journal, 1994
Findings are reported from the annual survey of doctoral degrees granted in foreign languages, literatures, cultures, linguistics, and foreign language education in the following categories: African, Asian, French, Germanic, Italian, Near and Middle Eastern, Slavic, and Spanish languages/literatures; classics; comparative literature; theoretical…
Descriptors: African Languages, Afro Asiatic Languages, Austro Asiatic Languages, Cultural Awareness
Pinton, Rae; Strong, Irene – 1984
This manual is designed for use by both teachers and students in an English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) job-search skills program, and is intended for use by students at the upper beginner or lower intermediate language proficiency level. The content can be used as a complete job search skills program, a resource for program development, a…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Arabic, Chinese, Employment Interviews
Clahsen, Harald, Ed. – 1996
The collection of essays and studies concerning generative grammar and first and second language acquisition includes: "The Optional-Infinitive Stage in Child English: Evidence from Negation" (Tony Harris, Ken Wexler); "Towards a Structure-Building Model of Acquisition" (Andrew Radford); "The Underspecification of…
Descriptors: Basque, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, English
National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, Arlington, VA. – 1978
A list is presented of resources for information on bilingual programs and materials in languages other than Spanish. The entries are arranged in four categories: "East Asian,""Native American,""Territories of the Pacific," and "Other Languages." The specific languages listed are: Cambodian, Chinese, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Thai,…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Arabic, Armenian, Bilingual Education
Donaldson, Judy P. – 1980
This instructional aid for elementary and secondary teachers of English as a second language recommends itself especially to those situations where a bilingual teacher and a formal bilingual program are not available. The first item presented is a letter to parents translated into each of the 21 languages covered. The letter urges the parents to…
Descriptors: Arabic, Basic Vocabulary, Bengali, Bilingual Education
Fairbairn, Kerry; Pegolo, Catherine – 1983
Six case studies of foreign language programs in diverse Australian secondary schools conducted as part of an effort to learn the state of secondary level foreign language instruction are presented. The studies were conducted through administrator, teacher, and student interviews, on-site observation, and verification of the final report by the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Catholic Schools
Pletcher, Barbara P.; And Others – 1978
The test reviews in this guide are intended to be used by school personnel charged with locating and administering appropriate assessment instruments to limited-English-speaking elementary school children. Assessment instruments are reviewed for native speakers of Chinese, French, Italian, Navajo, Portuguese, Spanish and Tagalog. Each instrument…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Attitude Measures, Bilingual Education
Hudson River Center for Program Development, Glenmont, NY. – 1999
The purpose the Native Language Literacy Screening Device (NLLSD) is to give English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) practitioners a sense of the native language literacy levels of learners coming into their programs. This is worth knowing because when learners have had limited schooling in their first language instructional strategies used…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Albanian, Arabic
Wadden, Jerry M. – 1992
The Des Moines (Iowa) Public Schools foreign language program for K-12 is described and evaluated. The evaluation report focuses on six areas, including: (1) school district mission and philosophy of foreign language instruction; (2) context (state policies and standards, foreign language program overview and enrollment, fiber-optic communication…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Chinese, Curriculum Development