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BLANCO, GEORGE – 1967
IN AN EFFORT TO DOCUMENT TEXAS' PROGRESS IN THE FIELD OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION, THIS REPORT DISCUSSES LOCAL AND STATE PROGRAMS ESTABLISHED PRIMARILY FOR NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING STUDENTS. NINE LOCAL PROGRAMS (MAINLY ELEMENTARY) ARE DESCRIBED WHICH RANGE IN METHODOLOGY FROM ALL-ENGLISH TO ALL-SPANISH INSTRUCTION. CONTRIBUTIONS AT THE STATE LEVEL INCLUDE…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Audiolingual Methods, Bilingualism, Elementary Schools
Titmus, Colin; And Others – 1979
This international glossary of adult education, its full text in English, Spanish, and French, is intended to establish generally acceptable international terminology in three major world languages to facilitate cooperation in the field of adult education. The alphabetical definition of terms, according to their spelling in each language, is…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Definitions, English, French
Brunet, Jean; And Others – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1979
Presents analyses of problems in translating the French structure "'etre' plus past participle" in English, German, and Spanish. (AM)
Descriptors: English, French, German, Grammar

Salager-Meyer, Francoise – English for Specific Purposes, 1990
Determines the patterns of analogy underlying medically terminologized words that carry a metaphorical status. Study results show that the patterns of analogy underlying medical metaphors are language independent and differ from those underlying nonscientific metaphors. Pedagogical guidelines are provided encouraging new vocabulary usage to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, French, Medical Vocabulary
Henry, Anita – 1983
The Foreign Language for International Trade degree program developed by Indiana University of Pennsylvania is described. The curriculum combines elements of a basic business course with elements of a language program. It is a rigorous program with 36 credit hours in both business and language. The program presents problems for language students…
Descriptors: Business Education, Curriculum, French, German
FIKS, ALFRED I. – 1967
A LIST OF 26 FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS IS PRESENTED. THE LIST INCLUDES SUCH INFORMATION AS PRICE, COMPLETION TIME, STUDENT LEVEL AND FORMAT OF EACH PROGRAM AND AN "ATOMY" INDEX. "ATOMY" IS DEFINED AS THE NUMBER OF FRAMES PER HOUR AND THE INDEX IS USED TO PROVIDE SOME INDICATION OF THE DEGREE OF FRACTIONATION OR ATOMIZATION OF…
Descriptors: French, German, Greek, Language Instruction
International Bureau of Education, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1977
A selected list of terminology used in special education in four languages--English, French, Russian, and Spanish--is set out in this glossary. This preliminary edition is intended as an overall framework and partial listing of terms with their definitions. The aim of the glossary is to facilitate communication, spoken and written, between…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Definitions, English, French
Rhode Island State Dept. of Education, Providence. Bureau of Grants and Regulations. – 1973
Designed to serve as a resource for teachers, students, department chairmen, guidance personnel, and curriculum planners, this curriculum guide is divided into the following sections: (1) basic language plan, (2) first year French, (3) French grammar, (4) second year French, (5) third year French, (6) first year Italian, (7) second year Italian,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives, French, Italian
Crispin, Andre – Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1974
Revised version of a paper given at a meeting of the Houston Area Teachers of Foreign Languages, March 1973, Houston, Texas; discusses importance of foreign languages to American businessmen in foreign countries. (RL)
Descriptors: Business Education, French, Language Instruction, Modern Languages
Consolo, Loris – Francais dans le Monde, 1972
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), French, Grammar, Second Language Learning

Senior, Nancy – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1982
Discusses benefits of creative writing activities for second-language students and describes literary competition for French and Spanish students at the University of Saskatchewan. (BK)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, French, Higher Education, Second Language Instruction

Haag, Ludwig; Stern, Elsbeth – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2003
Studies whether Latin or French as a foreign curricular language is a better preparation for learning Spanish. Participants who had learned French at school made markedly fewer grammar errors and slightly fewer vocabulary errors in the Spanish test that participants who had learned Latin. Concludes that knowledge of Latin is probably not an…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Foreign Countries, French, Latin
Vigario, Marina; Freitas, Maria Joao; Frota, Sonia – Language and Speech, 2006
This paper investigates the acquisition of prosodic words in European Portuguese (EP) through analysis of grammatical and statistical properties of the target language and child speech. The analysis of grammatical properties shows that there are solid cues to the prosodic word (PW) in EP, and the presence of early word-based phonology in child…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Acquisition, Portuguese, Suprasegmentals
Pika, Simone; Nicoladis, Elena; Marentette, Paula F. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2006
Anecdotal reports provide evidence of so called "hybrid" gesturer whose non-verbal behavior of one language/culture becomes visible in the other. The direction of this gestural transfer seems to occur from a high to a low frequency gesture language. The purpose of this study was therefore to test systematically 1) whether gestural transfer occurs…
Descriptors: Verbal Stimuli, Cartoons, Monolingualism, French
Gala, Candelas – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2008
This paper takes a specific university Department of Romance Languages as a case study to examine how the measures it adopted in view of increasing enrollment in Spanish in the nineties coincide with the recommendations in the MLA's 2007 report; it also examines how they have fared after some 12 years of implementation, advances explanations for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Romance Languages