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Ernst, Gerhard – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1972
Descriptors: Italian, Language Instruction, Language Patterns, Language Styles
Hall, Robert A., Jr. – 1973
This text focuses on the nature of language learning in the light of modern linguistic analysis. Common linguistic problems encountered by students of eight major languages are examined--Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, and Russian. The text discusses the nature of language, building new language habits, overcoming…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, French, German, Greek

Di Pietro, Robert J. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1975
This article stresses the idea that teaching communicative competence and the ability to deal with a variety of language situations should be the goal of foreign language teaching, with grammar instruction in a secondary position. Teaching by means of "dialogues with options" is discussed and sample dialogues for Italian instruction are given.…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Literary), Italian, Language Instruction

Scarpella-Walls, Judith L. – 1975
Italian pedagogical texts in general hold the position that the partitive is not obligatory as it is in French. However, some of these texts devote a great deal of time to repetition and transformation drills while others never mention the construction at all until the chapters on the pronoun replacement of accusative complements. Italian phrase…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Applied Linguistics, Grammar, Idioms
AGARD, FREDERICK B.; DI PIETRO, ROBERT J. – 1965
DESIGNED AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR PROFESSIONALS PREPARING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, PLANNING COURSES, OR DEVELOPING CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS, A SERIES OF STUDIES HAS BEEN PREPARED THAT CONTRASTS, IN TWO VOLUMES FOR EACH OF THE FIVE MOST COMMONLY TAUGHT FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN THE UNITED STATES, THE SOUND AND GRAMMATICAL…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Discrimination, Consonants
AGARD, FREDERICK B.; DI PIETRO, ROBERT J. – 1965
DESIGNED AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR PROFESSIONALS PREPARING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, PLANNING COURSES, OR DEVELOPING CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS, A SERIES OF STUDIES HAS BEEN PREPARED THAT CONTRASTS, IN TWO VOLUMES FOR EACH OF THE FIVE MOST COMMONLY TAUGHT FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN THE UNITED STATES, THE SOUND AND GRAMMATICAL…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English, Grammar
Dodge, James W., Ed. – 1972
The Report of the First Working Committee of the 1972 Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages focuses on the interrelationship of culture and language. A discussion on teaching another culture and on sociocultural aspects of foreign-language study comprises the first major section of the "Report." The second part presents short…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Cultural Interrelationships, French, German
Dato, Daniel Peter – 1965
This is the first book of an Italian course concentrating on the spoken language. The materials were prepared for language students who have either completed an introductory college-level Italian course of one year or more, or who have had an intensive course of several months. Book 1 consists of four lessons, each containing a narrative, a…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Conversational Language Courses, Cultural Background, Instructional Materials
Dato, Daniel Peter – 1965
This is the second book of an Italian course concentrating on the spoken language. The materials were prepared for language students who have either completed an introductory college-level Italian course of one year or more, or who have had an intensive course of several months. Book 2 consists of five lessons, each containing a narrative, a…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Conversational Language Courses, Cultural Background, Instructional Materials
Dato, Daniel Peter – 1965
This is the third book of an Italian course concentrating on the spoken language. The materials are considered to be advanced. The text consists of 21 lessons divided into three units; each unit contains spontaneous dialogues, substitution drills, and tests. English equivalents accompany the dialogues and substitution drills. The student is…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Conversational Language Courses, Cultural Background, Instructional Materials
Dato, Daniel Peter – 1965
This is the fourth book of an Italian course concentrating on the spoken language. The materials are considered to be advanced. The text consists of 21 lessons divided into three units; each unit contains spontaneous dialogues, substitution drills, and tests. English equivalents accompany the dialogues and substitution drills. The student is…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Conversational Language Courses, Cultural Background, Instructional Materials