THE BASIC VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURE OF CEBUANO VISAYAN ARE PRESENTED HERE THROUGH TWENTY-TWO SHORT DIALOGUES AND ACCOMPANYING PATTERN DRILLS AND CULTURAL NOTES. THE DIALOGUES ARE BASED ON EVERYDAY SITUATIONS AND COMMON USAGE THAT THE PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER ENCOUNTERS IN THIS AREA OF THE PHILIPPINES. INTRODUCTORY PAGES PRESENT THE STUDENT WITH THE…

SEVERAL SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING PROGRAMS DEVELOPED FOR MILITARY USE ARE DESCRIBED. THE APPLICATION OF PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES TO THE PEDAGOGICAL AND LINGUISTIC SKILLS UNDERLYING FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING IS EXPLAINED. AN OVERVIEW OF SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING AND SOME OF THE PROGRAMED LANGUAGE…

AN ARABIC-ENGLISH VOCABULARY WAS COMPILED FOR USE IN THE TEACHING OF SECOND LEVEL ARABIC. THE WORDS AND PHRASES SELECTED FOR INCLUSION IN THE VOCABULARY WERE ARRANGED UNDER 28 ARABIC SYMBOLS. (WB)

THE TWELVE LESSONS IN STANDARD SPOKEN BIKOL WHICH COMPRISE THIS TEXT WERE WRITTEN FOR PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS WORKING IN THE PHILIPPINES. THE STUDENT IS TO CONCENTRATE ON ACQUIRING AURAL-ORAL SKILLS RATHER THAN ON READING AND WRITING. LESSONS CONSIST OF SHORT DIALOGS AND NUMEROUS DRILLS TO TEACH THE PRONUNCIATION PATTERNS AND GRAMMAR POINTS.…

THIS SECOND VOLUME OF A TWO-SEMESTER COURSE IN BEGINNING URDU CONTAINS VARIOUS TYPES OF TEXTS FOR READING--(1) FOUR BRIEF CONVERSATIONS DESIGNED TO SERVE AS MODEL LESSONS, WITH FULL GRAMMATICAL DISCUSSIONS, (2) TWENTY-SIX SHORT PROSE PIECES, FROM TEXTBOOKS, NEWSPAPERS, AND STANDARD ESSAYS, (3) TWO SELECTIONS EACH FROM THE KORAN AND THE BIBLE IN…

This three-volume course is intended to provide a foundation in the grammar of classical Chinese on which the student who plans to specialize in classical studies can build, and to give the student of modern Chinese sufficient knowledge of literary Chinese for his purposes. It is assumed that the student can already pronounce Chinese words, use a…

An instructor's text-workbook, consisting of fifteen booklets, to accompany LINC Communications Developmental Reading course, is presented. Five Unit Headings are: Word Analysis; Word Meaning; Literal Comprehension; Interpretive Comprehension; Evaluative Comprehension. An answer key is provided. Booklets and key are bound separately for inclusion…

The DeFrancis Chinese texts and texts from the People's Republic of China are compared, regarding instructional value, character use and cost. (CHK)

Discusses the strong contrastive analysis hypothesis, which claims predictive powers for contrastive analysis, and the weak hypothesis, which claims only that contrastive analysis can help account for observed difficulties in second language learning. The strong hypothesis is found untenable, and difficulties with the weak hypothesis are discussed…

BBC's foreign language television courses for adults have achieved a level of popularity. Books developed for use with the course have influenced conventional evening language classes as well. (BD)

This manual is designed to accompany the student's text in a self-instructional course intended to assist the student in attaining a high degree of competence in French pronunciation and a basic knowledge of how French sounds correspond to the writing system. The material is divided into ten chapters. Each chapter has three parts: (1) conversation…

A SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMED COURSE IN RUSSIAN WAS CONSTRUCTED. FIFTEEN THOUSAND PRINTED FRAMES AND 306 TAPES WERE PREPARED FOR USE BY HIGH SCHOOL OR FIRST-SEMESTER COLLEGE STUDENTS. THE MATERIALS WERE USED TO (1) PROVIDE A RESEARCH TOOL FOR STUDYING SECOND LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION AND ACQUISITION AND (2) YIELD INFORMATIO ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF…

This is one of a series of self-teaching textbooks initially prepared for the Armed Forces and now offered to the public. The text is designed to be used with a native speaker of Danish or with the accompanying recordings. The textbook is divided into three major sections, each consisting of five learning units and one unit for review. Each unit…