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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
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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
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Dornyei, Zoltan; Csizer, Kata – Applied Linguistics, 2002
Examines how the significant sociocultural changes that took place in Hungary in the 1990s affected school children's language-related attitudes and language learning motivation concerning five target languages: English, German, French, Italian, and Russian. Analyses are based on survey data collected from 13- and 14-year-old pupils in 1993 and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, French, German
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Thompson, Irene – Foreign Language Annals, 1995
Considers the interrater reliability of certified testers in five European languages, the relationship between interviewer-assigned ratings and second ratings based on audio replay, interrater reliability as a function of proficiency level, effect of different languages on interrater agreement, and interrater disagreements with regard to…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, English (Second Language), Evaluators, French
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Papadopoulou, Despina; Clahsen, Harald – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
To contribute to a better understanding of second language (L2) sentence processing, the present study examines how L2 learners parse temporarily ambiguous sentences containing relative clauses. Results are reported from both off-line and on-line experiments with three groups of advanced learners of Greek whose native languages (L1s) were Spanish,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Sentences, Cues, Greek
LEMEN, ROBERT F. – 1965
THE MARK TWAIN SUMMER INSTITUTE OFFERED CHALLENGING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, PROVIDED EXCELLENT TEACHERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOP NEW TECHNIQUES, AND OFFERED AN "INTERN-TEACHER" PROGRAM. THE STUDENTS QUALIFIED TO ATTEND WERE ABLE SECONDARY STUDENTS FROM GRADES 9 THROUGH 12. EACH STUDENT WOULD TAKE ONE NON-CREDIT HIGH SCHOOL COURSE.…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Catalogs, Chinese, Educational Opportunities
HARMON, JOHN T., ED. – 1965
INCLUDED IN THIS ANNOTATED SUPPLEMENT FOR GERMAN, NORWEGIAN, POLISH, RUSSIAN, AND SWEDISH MATERIALS ARE (1) MATERIALS PUBLISHED SINCE THE PRINTING OF THE ORIGINAL LIST, (2) REVISIONS IN SOME OF THE ORIGINAL EVALUATIONS, AND (3) ITEMS INADVERTENTLY OMITTED FROM THE ORIGINAL LIST. PRICES, GRADE LEVEL, PROFICIENCY LEVEL, AND BRIEF CRITICAL EVALUATION…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Evaluation Criteria, FLES, German
Idaho State Dept. of Education, Boise. Div. of Instructional Improvement. – 1975
This guide presents a rationale for quality foreign language programs and examines what might constitute a quality foreign language program. The following questions are discussed: reasons for foreign language study, kind of student and type of instruction necessary, objectives and application of FL study. The articulation of the foreign language…
Descriptors: Course Content, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Guides, French
Fiks, Alfred I. – 1969
This annotated bibliography of programed language instruction materials lists forty-eight programs by language; including French (17), Spanish (15), German (6), Russian (3), Latin (3), and other languages (4). Information is provided on title, publisher, or supplier, author, price, student level, course objectives, mode of student response,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Technology, French, German
North Colonie Central School District, Newtonville, NY. – 1973
This curriculum guide is designed for use in the first part of a 2-year audiolingual language program by French, Spanish, German, and Russian teachers, department supervisors and outside evaluators. The primary objective of the Language Usage course is to enable the learner to make his basic needs known to native speakers of the target language.…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Class Activities
Fuchs, Sarel P. – 1987
The history and rationale for entry and exit tests devised to meet Pennsylvania's standards for certifying foreign language teachers are outlined and discussed. The involvement of the Educational Testing Service in developing and validating tests in a variety of subject areas is described, and the need for institutional rather than standardized…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, French, German, Italian
Chitoran, Dumitru, Ed. – 1976
A collection of 32 conference papers is presented as reflecting the state of the art in contrastive linguistics studies of English and other languages. The reports cover the following topics: 5 English contrastive projects (Romanian-English, Yugoslav-Serbo-Croatian English, English-Hungarian, and Finnish-English analysis, and a project from the…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Error Analysis (Language), Finnish
McWilliams, Larry; And Others – 1978
A guide on foreign languages is presented for counselors, administrators, teachers, and parents. An introductory section discusses reasons for foreign language study, college entrance or exit requirements, foreign language and SAT scores, careers that use foreign languages, myths about learning foreign languages, and information about French,…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Opportunities, Career Planning, French
MACDONALD, R. ROSS – 1966
A DETAILED DESCRIPTION IS GIVEN OF AN EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY FROM 1960 TO 1966 IN WHICH SELECTED BLIND STUDENTS, THROUGH INTENSIVE AUDIOLINGUAL LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION, WERE TRAINED TO BROADEN THEIR EMPLOYMENT POTENTIAL. ALTHOUGH ONLY RUSSIAN AND THE TRANSCRIPTION OF ORAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE MATERIALS WERE TAUGHT IN THE PILOT…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Blindness, Cultural Enrichment
Keller, Howard H. – 1978
Three approaches to vocabulary presentation in the second language classroom are described. The examples used are drawn largely from German, Russian, French, Latin, and Greek, but they can be extended to all commonly taught languages, although certain approaches are particularly suited to specific languages. In addition, the goals of a particular…
Descriptors: Etymology, French, German, Greek
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