This course (a series of six student workbooks, 230 tapes, and a teacher's guide containing a tapescript key) is designed for older children and adults learning English as a foreign or second language, or for speakers of nonstandard English dialects. Programed for self-instructional use and a minimum of assistance from the teacher, the course…

This history of the language laboratory and the factors influencing its growth are briefly traced. Materials and equipment are described, and the problems involved in a laboratory operation are indicated. Also considered is the use of the language laboratory as a teaching machine and as a research device for education in general. A bibliography…

The autonomous learning strategy for adults which has been used to teach English as a second language at the University of Nancy for the past two years is described here in detail. Several case studies are provided on learners with both specific and general language needs, illustrating the roles of the helper, learner and the institution, and the…

The changing situation in the world and in academia requires a new perspective on priorities for Slavic language instructional materials. For example, courses must be developed that concentrate on reading skills, the main skill today's students of Slavic languages generally require. Materials needed for Slavic languages can be grouped into 16…

The purpose of this guide is to assist teachers in the classroom utilization of "Artes Latinae", the Encyclopaedia Britannica Latin instructional system. This guide is intended as a supplement to the publisher's teacher's manual and presupposes familiarity with it. Stress has been placed on the early units of the textbook, since the inexperienced…

Suggests four criteria or levels for adapting and rewriting fables for ESL classes: vocabulary, structure and phonology, cultural appropriateness, and skills of living. (KM)

In connection with two French grammatical problems (des bons amis - de bons amis; quatre-vingts-deux ans - quatre-vingt-deux ans), there is a discussion of consideration of the efforts toward reform of French orthography and of the decree of 1901, still in effect in France, for the choice of teaching materials for basic courses in "French as a…

Third of a series of drills on Russian verbs of motion. Answers are provided. (Text is in Russian.) (TL)

This article first takes some characteristics of language and suggests that the nature of language makes it, intrinsically, unsuitable to treatment by a fully programmed course. Second, it takes programming and suggests what aspects of language might be assigned to programmed instruction. (Author/LG)

Describes the services offered by the International Center for Pedagogical Studies' audiovisual section. (Text is in French.) (AM)

THIS BASIC COURSE IN SPOKEN AZERBAIJANI, A TURKIC LANGUAGE OF NORTHWESTERN IRAN AND THE AZERBAIJAN REPUBLIC OF THE USSR, IS BASED AS CLOSELY AS POSSIBLE ON THE EDUCATED TABRIZI DIALECT. THE FORMAT OF THIS 25-UNIT TEXT CONSISTS OF SECTIONS ON--(1) BASIC SENTENCES PRESENTED IN "BUILD-UPS," (2) PRONUNCIATION, BASED ON A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS…

THIS REVISED 30-UNIT EDITION, ORIGINALLY PREPARED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE PROGRAM IN ORIENTAL LANGUAGES OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES, IS PRIMARILY DESIGNED AS A SECOND-YEAR COURSE IN MONGOL. (MONGOL IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS "MONGOLIAN," THE LARGEST MEMBER OF THE MONGOLIAN LANGUAGES FAMILY, WHICH COMPRISES A NUMBER OF…

THESE ELEVEN SELECTIONS, THE FIRST OF WHICH IS "THE NOVEL IN MODERN ARABIC LITERATURE," BY MUHAMMAD MANDUR, SERVE AS AN INTRODUCTION TO FORMAL ARABIC PROSE AND TO SOME OF THE "MORE IMPORTANT AND REPRESENTATIVE PRACTITIONERS OF THE ART OF NOVEL AND SHORT STORY WRITING." AT LEAST TWO YEARS OF COLLEGE-LEVEL TRAINING IN ARABIC ARE ASSUMED ON THE PART…

THE VAH OSTYAK DIALECT, UPON WHICH THIS CHRESTOMATHY OF EASTERN OSTYAK IS BASED, IS THE RICHEST OF THE OSTYAK LANGUAGE GROUP AND OCCUPIES AN IMPORTANT PLACE IN THE FAMILY OF THE RELATED FINNO-UGRIC LANGUAGES. ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR, THIS DIALECT SPOKEN BY A WEST SIBERIAN TRIBE EXHIBITS SOME "SURPRISING AGREEMENTS OF TYPE" WITH THE…

DESIGNED FOR STUDENTS WHO HAVE COMPLETED "BASIC ESTONIAN" (BY THE SAME AUTHOR), THIS READER CONTAINS SELECTIONS ON A VARIETY OF TOPICS--ESTONIAN FOLKLORE, GEOGRAPHY, ECONOMICS, HISTORY, LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE, ART, MUSIC, SPORTS, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND SCIENCE. THE LANGUAGE AND STYLE OF THE ORIGINAL WORKS HAVE BEEN SOMEWHAT SIMPLIFIED, AND THE…