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Burtnett, Olga J. – 1988
A guide to personal letter writing for foreign language classes provides ideas, formats, and useful information for an instructional unit and student projects. The first section outlines unit goals and offers ideas for activities and assignments. These include class pen pals, teacher and parent letters, holiday letters, follow-ups for telegrams,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, French
Wolfsfeld, Lynn – 1981
The descriptions of 200 tests for a variety of language groups are designed for use with the test file maintained by the Evaluation, Dissemination, and Assessment Center for Bilingual Education (EDAC). The content areas covered include reading, mathematics, self-concept, language dominance, language proficiency, and intelligence. Tests are…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Chinese, English (Second Language), French
Lister, Susan, Comp. – 1977
This volume is a collection of articles, activities and resources in the foreign language field from both state and national sources. The collection deals with teaching methods, trends in the field, instructional materials, learning activities and creative student work. Various kinds of resources for foreign language teachers, including…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Educational Media, French, German
Mayher, John S.; Brause, Rita S. – 1978
This evaluation focuses on a project concerned with establishing bilingual/bicultural education for New York City children from homes in which English, French, Spanish, or Yiddish is spoken. The goals, strategies, target population, and staff, parent and student activities of the program, which involved pre-kindergarten through fifth grade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, English
WILKE, GERHARD M. – 1967
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL ACT FUNDS SUPPORTED A SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, PUBLIC SCHOOLS' SUMMER ACTIVITY DESIGNED TO PROVIDE INTENSIVE LANGUAGE TRAINING IN FRENCH, GERMAN, AND SPANISH FOR 56 SELECTED STUDENTS. THE 6-HOUR DAILY SCHEDULE INCLUDED TWO HOURS DEVOTED TO ORAL EXPRESSION, TWO TO LITERATURE STUDY, AND TWO TO CULTURE-ORIENTED…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Aids, Cultural Enrichment, Curriculum Enrichment
Glatthorn, Allan A.; And Others – 1967
At Abington High Schools' North Campus, Abington, Pennsylvania, beginning French and Spanish students were grouped according to ability after the first marking period in an effort to meet their individual needs. A summary of the project shows that the grades of ability-grouped students tended to improve and that there is no clear correspondence…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Educational Research, French, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Larochette, Joe – 1974
This book begins with a consideration of the relation between language as representation and the reality that is represented. The object of this study is the semantic function of syntactical relations in French and Spanish, but other languages are also used for purposes of comparison. Three principal diatheses are revealed: objective, subjective,…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Fishman, Joshua A.; And Others – 1966
This is a study of cultural-linguistic self-maintenance efforts, rationales, and accomplishments of non-English speaking immigrants in America. Trend analyses, contrast of separate cultural and linguistic groups, internal comparisons, and the examination of language maintenance and language shift phenomena contribute in the major effort to reveal…
Descriptors: Bilingual Schools, Bilingualism, Broadcast Industry, Cultural Influences
Arendt, Jermaine C., Ed. – Minneapolis Public Schools Foreign Language Newsletter, 1971
The summer language programs of the Twin City Institute for Talented Youth of Minneapolis and St. Paul are examined in this newsletter. New courses in Spanish, German, and French, added to the basic program in 1971, as well as the continuing Russian course are described. Primary consideration is given to the nature of each course, purpose,…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, French
Di Francesco, Loretta; Smith, Philip D., Jr. – Bulletin of the Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association, 1971
This evaluation of two programs of materials used in introductory French classes tests two basic hypotheses: (1) pretests are good predictors of subsequent French achievement at the junior high school level, and (2) students in different programs will achieve to the same degree on a final French test. Results of the groups using the "audiolingual"…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Audiolingual Methods, Educational Experiments, Elementary Schools
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York, NY. – 1971
Instructional materials generated at the November 1971, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Pre-Conference Workshop on Culture compiled in this publication include papers for teachers of French, German, Spanish, and English-as-a-second-language. This compilation is intended to help secondary school teachers broaden their approach…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Cultural Education, English (Second Language)

Normand, Guessler – Foreign Language Annals, 1986
The University of Toledo developed a course, primarily for its undergraduate business administration students, to hone their awareness of how business practices and approaches are shaped by culture. The course also aims to give students the opportunity to function effectively in the increasingly international environment of business. An outline…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, College Second Language Programs, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries

LoCoco, Veronica – Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1986
Most second language texts not only do not emphasize negotiation of meaning, but are also structured to mislead learners in their attempt to express meaning (in the learners' native language). Examples from German, Spanish, and French are used to illustrate the need for second language learning to stand alone and independently from the native…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, English

Allen, Edward D.; And Others – Modern Language Journal, 1988
More than 1,500 high school foreign language students were tested for comprehension of authentic texts. First- through fifth-year French, German, and Spanish students read texts of the types mentioned in the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines at the intermediate and intermediate high levels. All students captured some meaning from each of the texts.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, French, German, High School Students

Giacobbe, Jorge; Cammarota, Marie-Ange – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
The relationship between the source language (Spanish) and the target language (French) in the construction of lexis during target language acquisition was examined in two case studies, leading to the hypothesis that there are both systematic and nonsystematic approaches to the construction of lexis used by Hispanophones learning French.…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Processes