Bibliographical listing of materials covering culture, language and linguistics, bilingual education, reading instruction, and foreign language education. (DS)

Document originally drafted by a committee at the 1969 Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English and redrafted in January 1970. Section D was further amended by the TESOL Executive Committee, at the Annual Convention in March 1971, in New Orleans, Louisiana. (DS)

Advocates the integration of foreign language instruction into the broader curriculum and education as a whole. (JB)

Research on bilingual education and its relationship to a variety of language teaching settings shows that the immersion experiment in Ontario has had several constructive side effects, including a reexamination of English language teaching and increased contact between teachers of French as a first and as a second language as well as increased…

A new approach to language instruction is proposed based on a study of the cultural and linguistic diversity at home and designed for a broad base of students beginning at the earliest grades. It should aim at functional bilinguality with the learning of the language incidental to learning about peoples and ways of life. (JMF)

Three areas of diversity in Spanish and Portuguese studies - the status of the Spanish language in the U.S., teacher training and out-of- school learning - are examined, and recommendations are made for safeguarding the interests of the diversity and unity of the profession. (KM)

A study indicates that students in French immersion programs in Canadian schools achieve superior progress in French and equal skill in English relative to students in partial immersion classes or traditional second-language study. (CK)

Information about applied linguistics in China is presented. Some of the topics addressed are: the teaching of Chinese (comparable to the teaching of English here), the teaching of minority languages (comparable to bilingual education here), and the teaching of foreign languages. (SW)

Presents findings of an evaluation of an English-French bilingual education program using partial instruction in the second language in St. Thomas, Ontario. The evaluation covers grades 1-3. The program operates in unilingual English environment. (RM)

A discussion of language-learning problems in Singapore, Malaysia, where there are four official languages, and educational television's role in language teaching. (HB)

Designed for use in a bilingual program, this elementary reader is the story of early French settlers in Acadia, the region now known as Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The French text is illustrated with color drawings. (PMP)

Presented is a brief survey of the Structural Approach as it has been introduced in the teaching of English in the non-English-medium primary and secondary schools in Malaysia and a discussion of some of the obvious problems in the implementation of the program. The author assesses the standard of written work produced by students on the various…

The author poses this question: When the learning of science is carried on in a foreign language, is the extent and nature of concept-formation different from that required of the student who learns science entirely in his mother tongue? Because the term "scientific concept" is ambiguous, the author suggests five distinct definitions--four groups…

The evaluation of the 1970-71 bilingual education program in northern Lubbock, Texas, is provided in this paper. The main purpose of the program was to plan, develop, operate, evaluate, and, if necessary, modify a bilingual program which could be operated in self-contained classrooms. The 4 major components of the program, which included 5…