The face of Modern Foreign Language education (MFL) in Scotland is changing. A major policy shift in Scottish education in 2012 set out the aspiration that all students up to the end of third level education in Scottish schools would have the opportunity to learn not one but two languages, in addition to their mother tongue. Over the last 20…

In Swedish compulsory school, students can choose to study a modern language in addition to English, i.e., French, Spanish, or German. Since 1994, instruction time for modern languages has been extended, the learning objectives have been made more attainable, and national assessment materials have been introduced. The government made these changes…

This article aims to analyse different ubiquitous learning (u-Learning) platforms used when learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) as part of the Modern Languages Degree at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). The combination of face-to-face lessons with multimedia content and digital mediated learning allows today's native…

This article discusses the final results from a research work which aimed to identify the pedagogical processes that emerge from the autobiographies that modern languages trainee teachers at the University of Caldas write. These autobiographies become a starting point to develop their teaching practicum, and are considered to be of great…

Considers the question of subject specialization after the age of 16. (DS)

Report of a discussion group of the ADE/ADFL Joint Summer Seminar, June 25-29, 1973, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.; concludes that curriculum planners are accountable to students, the "discipline", faculty, institutions, legislators, and other funding agencies. (RL)

Paper given at the Annual Convention of the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers held at Kiamesha Lake, New York, in October 1972. (DS)

Paper presented at the Annual convention of the Modern Language Association, December 30, 1972, New York, N.Y. (DS)

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, October 27, 1972, St. Louis, Missouri. (DS)

Results of a survey presented at the triennial convention of the Phi Sigma Iota Romance Language Honor Society, October 5-8, 1972, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. (DS)

A KNOWLEDGE OF LINGUISTIC PRINCIPLES HELPS THE TEACHER USING THE AUDIOLINGUAL METHOD TO TEACH THE BASIC SKILLS IN THE NECESSARY ORDER OF SEQUENCE--COMPREHENSION, SPEAKING, READING, AND WRITING--WITHOUT NEGLECTING ANY OF THEM. LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE MAKES REALIZABLE (1) AUTOMATION OF DIFFICULT LANGUAGE ITEMS, (2) MAJOR VOCABULARY EXPANSION IN…

Paper read at the ADFL meeting, December 26, 1972, New York, N.Y. (DS)