Briefly summarizes the papers presented at the 10th annual convention of the German Language Institute in Mannheim. The relationship between linguistic research and its applicability in the area of language instruction is discussed. (Text is in German.) (DS)

EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINE BOOKS AND ARTICLES PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1885 AND 1967 ARE LISTED IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR STUDENTS OF APPLIED GERMAN LINGUISTICS AT THE GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE LEVELS AND TEACHERS OF GERMAN IN HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. THOUGH EMPHASIS IS ON APPLIED LINGUISTICS, SOME PUBLICATIONS ON LINGUISTIC THEORY ARE INCLUDED. THE MAJOR…

This article is intended to help teachers of German classes explain gender-number-case inflection. As a nominal is expanded from pronoun to noun phrase, inflections of the noun and adjectives relieve the burden of distinction from the determiner, increase the number of inflectional forms and provide redundancy for easy communication. (CHK)

Evaluates tenses as to (1) communicative importance, (2) frequency, and (3) range. Under (1), finds actual tense less important than accompanying adverbials and extra-linguistic factors. Discusses chief difficulties appearing in use and interpretation of past tenses, and how the results of linguistic research may help to deal with them. (Text is…

The article describes particular structural aspects of German which are likely to cause difficulties for Polish-speaking learners. (Text is in German.) (DH)

This paper describes Leondard Bloomfield's contributions to the description and instruction of German. Bloomfield's approach is reflected in this textbook "First German Book" which appeared in 1923 and was revised in 1928. The organization and structure of the text are described here in detail, and the differences between the first and…

Reports on the lab's activities as a center for the development of university language lab courses and for research into contemporary oral colloquial French, a part of the applied linguistics research area, and a center for the development of a language lab grammar for Zurich German. (RM)

LANGUAGES SHOW CHARACTERISTIC DIFFERENCES IN THE WAY IN WHICH THEY ORGANIZE OBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE AND THESE DIFFERENCES ARE REFLECTED IN THE FORMAL AND SEMANTIC PATTERNING OF EACH LANGUAGE. A CONTRASTIVE APPROACH TO LANGUAGE LEARNING WHICH PAYS PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO POINTS OF FORMAL AND FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ELEMENTS OF THE NATIVE…

The relative importance of content-oreinted teaching materials in German universities and public schools is examined in this survey of language textbooks and teaching methods. It is noted that despite a growing interest in structural linguistics at the university level, school grammars are primarily content-oriented and based on Hans Glinz's…