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Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. Div. of Educational Research. – 1968
Designed to ascertain whether advanced students could apply language skills acquired through a minimum of three years of study to a practical purpose such as an academic subject, this report describes and evaluates a 2-year research project involving the teaching of history in French or Spanish in a number of Virginia high schools. Following a…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Objectives, Evaluative Thinking, Experimental Programs
Ladu, Tora Tuve; And Others – 1968
A systematic cross-cultural study of French and Hispanic cultures is made in three major areas in this guide designed to help integrate sociocultural subject matter into the foreign language instructional program. Human nature, social relations, man and nature, time, and space--as universal problems of cultural orientation--serve as the foundation…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Art Expression, Cross Cultural Studies, Culture
Ferguson, Charles A., Ed.; Stewart, William A., Ed. – 1963
This volume is a collection of bibliographies designed as a basic professional reference library for teachers of the five modern foreign languages most commonly taught in the United States. After a general reading list, the bibliographies are divided according to the language they deal with: (1) French, by Andre Martinet and Stanley Lampach; (2)…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Dimitriadis, Alexis, Ed.; Siegel, Laura, Ed.; Surek-Clark, Clarissa, Ed.; Williams, Alexander, Ed. – 1997
This issue contains the following articles: "The Pragmatics of Wh-Question Intonation in English" (Christine Bartels); "The Nature of Object Agreement in Hungarian" (Huba Bartos); "Voah Mei Daett Sei Deitsh: Developments in the Vowel System of Pennsylvania German" (David Bowie); "Event Time Properties"…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Code Switching (Language), Dialects, English
Brown, Christine – Perspective, 1995
The second language education program of Glastonbury, Connecticut, considered to be an exemplary program in a modest community, is profiled and discussed. Since the 1950s in this system, all students study at least one foreign language, beginning in elementary school. Course offerings, which have changed little since that time, include Spanish,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Design, Educational Trends
Kemis, Mari; Moran, Kelly Jo Kerry – 1996
The report describes and evaluates the activities of the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center, established at Iowa State University as one of six nationally to support K-12 foreign language education. These activities include: the Teacher Educator Partnership Institute, a professional development program for methods professors in higher…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, College Faculty, Conferences, Curriculum Development
Irujo, Suzanne, Ed. – 1990
A number of activities for teaching foreign language in the elementary school (FLES) are presented. The activities were developed by participants in a FLES teacher training workshop, Project INTERACT, in the Boston area. The first section contains games, thematic units, and other activities specifically related to French language instruction,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Awareness, Daily Living Skills, Elementary Education
Gass, Susan M., Ed.; Neu, Joyce, Ed. – 1995
Articles on speech acts and intercultural communication include: "Investigating the Production of Speech Act Sets" (Andrew Cohen); "Non-Native Refusals: A Methodological Perspective" (Noel Houck, Susan M. Gass); "Natural Speech Act Data versus Written Questionnaire Data: How Data Collection Method Affects Speech Act…
Descriptors: Advertising, Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. – 1987
A guide to the adaptation of oral proficiency testing for classroom language instruction contains excerpts of projects by participants in an American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) workshop. The excerpts are examples of proficiency based curricula and materials designed to personalize instruction and simulate real-life…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Deveny, John – 1986
Oklahoma State University applied for and received federal funding to offer instruction in Spanish and French to university faculty, staff, and spouses. Students participate in two types of classes: (1) informal instruction using a cognitive, proficiency-based approach with informal evaluation and little or no homework, and (2) intensive…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, Communication Skills, Federal Aid
Hilton, Thomas L.; And Others – 1985
A self-administering test of oral language fluency was developed for use with high school teachers of French and Spanish. Interviews were also conducted, and biographical data were collected. The original instrument was based on the Foreign Language Questionnaire Pretest developed for the Survey of Global Understanding Project. The focus of the…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, French, High Schools, Interviews
Schulz, Renate A., Ed. – 1977
This volume consists of the following papers selected from those presented at the 1977 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages: (1) "Educational Cognitive Style: A Basis for Personalizing Foreign Language Instruction," by Derek N. Nunney; (2) "Discovering Student Learning Styles through Cognitive Style Mapping," by Helen S.…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Communicative Competence (Languages)

Foley, Alice L. – 1962
A 3-year study of the effect of 3 years of audiolingually oriented FLES instruction on student achievement in French and Spanish classes in grades 7-12 is described. Samples of the language proficiency tests used as research instruments for grades 7 and 9 are reproduced in the extensive appendixes, along with the objectives of the FLES program.…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Comparative Analysis
Wood, Paul W. – 1976
St. Bonaventure University holds a Language Day each spring, hosting some 3,900 area junior high and high school students. The buildings and facilities of the university campus are used, and activities include language competitions (exhibits, interpretative readings, language productions, audio-visual presentations and essays); a fiesta; foreign…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, College Bound Students, College Language Programs, College School Cooperation
Barrutia, Richard; And Others – 1969
This report consists of three parts--(1) an overview of the use of the Ampex Intrinsic Device (AID) in beginning Spanish classes, (2) a description of the Course Author Language (CAL) computer program, and (3) a description of a supplementary project for the testing of the Appleton-Century-Crofts-Center for Applied Linguistics French Program. The…
Descriptors: Branching, College Language Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs