Performance objectives for the foreign language curriculum in Michigan schools are presented in draft form. Objectives are outlined for stages A (beginning) through D (advanced). The remainder of the volume deals with stage A. It provides a detailed description of the minimum behavioral objectives for basic language skills at the end of the…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a survey concerning the teaching of foreign languages in Australia. Experimental research into the validity of the various aims and claims for foreign language teaching is summarized, and the authors conclude that while much research has been done on cognitive aspects,…

These curriculum units were developed by participants in the National Endowment for the Humanities seminar at the University of Oregon in 1993. The lessons include: (1) "Schule, Freunde, Liebe: Wien um die Jahrhundertwende (School, Friends, Love: Vienna at the Turn of the Century)" (Linda Hansen; Glenn Tetterton-Opheim); (2) "Kultur…

Discussed in this article is the question of teaching Old Saxon in German departments. Usually, Old High German, Middle High German, and Gothic are taught in German departments where philology is included. Only in the large universities and colleges will one find a course in Old Saxon and Old Norsk. Greater emphasis on teaching Old Saxon is…

The initial phase of an intensive language proqram relying on emotional involvement and close, interpersonal teacher/student contact is described. For duplication elsewhere, an overview is provided of the curriculum, syllabus, Master/Apprentice teaching team, student input, teacher evaluations, and funding. (PMJ)

THIS CURRICULUM OUTLINE PROVIDES A SET OF MINIMUM ESSENTIALS, BASED ON A MODIFIED AUDIOLINGUAL APPROACH, FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL PROGRAMS IN GERMAN. FOLLOWING A BRIEF DISCUSSION OF THE NEED FOR LONGER STUDY SEQUENCE AND UPDATED INSTRUCTIONAL PHILOSOPHY, THE GUIDE DESCRIBES THE BASIC OBJECTIVES, CONTENTS, AND SUGGESTED TEACHING PROCEDURES FOR EACH…

This teacher's guide, for use in a fifth-grade German course, contains 12 units of instructional materials which concentrate on the development of basic audiolingual skills. Each of the units consists of conversational skits, dialogue adaptation, directed dialogue review, and classroom drills. Units include: (1) Das Aufstehen und das Fruhstuck,…

Thirty lessons for use in fourth-grade German FLES programs are contained in this audiolingual language text. The subject matter treated involves the child's life in school, his family, his peer group, and the larger social community. Each lesson is based on an illustrated dialogue and includes questions and exercises. For the companion documents,…

This guide is planned to help the FLES teacher develop pleasurable language learning experiences in spoken German for children at the third-grade level. Experiences included in this guide present German in life situations, as well as insight into German culture. The guide offers suggestions for classroom procedures, and detailed directions are…

An intensive elementary-level language course for college students, seeking to provide meaningful application of language skills and to improve student attitudes toward second language learning, is described in this report. The three-term course in which students work extensively with undergraduate apprentice teachers while living in language…

Current publications do not cease to stress the unfortunate fact that language ernollments are declining; this paper is an exception to the prevailing pessimistic trend. Its aim is to describe the success of the first and second year German language courses taught at Middlebury College during the summer of 1975. This was an intensive program with…

This book is one in a series of practical guides for teaching foreign languages. Designed for future teachers of German in high school or at the undergraduate level, as well as for practicing teachers who are interested in keeping up with the latest material in their field, this book re-evaluates foreign-language teaching methodology in the light…

THE RESEARCH PROJECT REPORTED HERE INVESTIGATED THE TEACHING OF GERMAN ON THE SECONDARY AND COLLEGE LEVELS, ESPECIALLY IN TERMS OF THE PROBLEM OF ARTICULATION. SURVEY FORMS WERE SENT TO HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN SIX RANDOMLY SELECTED STATES, AND THE FACT THAT THE RESPONSE WAS LOW INDICATES A LACK OF INTEREST IN ARTICULATION. INCLUDED HERE ARE…

This manual of tape scripts, together with a set of foreign language audio tapes for level 1 German, was prepared to support the curriculum bulletin, New York City Foreign Language Program for Secondary Schools: German, Levels 1-4. Vocabulary, repetition, transformation, and recombination drills on specific grammatical features allow further…

Describes a pilot program designed to offer a curriculum for students interested in beginning the study of a foreign language as part of their preparation for international professions (engineering, business, sciences, etc.). Through interviews with representatives of international business, banking, and government agencies who have served abroad,…