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Download full textPeace Corps, Washington, DC. – 1968
This report summarizes a study published in 1967 by Harvard University which assessed foreign language proficiency of U.S. college seniors majoring in French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Russian. The measures used were the following: the MLA Foreign Language Proficiency Tests (Form A): Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing; the Modern…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Audiolingual Skills, College Language Programs, College Students
Peer reviewedBirch, Gary – Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations, 1983
Advocates national policy of multiculturalism and multilingualism, acquired through cohesive use of a common language (English) spoken by all Australians, yet retaining and incorporating the more than 20 major languages presently in use. Suggests provisions for efficient teaching of English and encouragement of all other community languages,…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Chinese, Czech
Urbanski, Henry – 1984
In response to rapidly falling foreign language enrollments, the State University of New York College at New Paltz designed and actively promoted a language immersion program in the summer of 1981. The program consisted of instruction in twelve languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian,…
Descriptors: Arabic, Chinese, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Bancroft, W. Jane – 1975
In Sofia, Bulgaria, at the Institute of Suggestology headed by Dr. Georgi Lozanov, yoga relaxation has been combined with the Mauger oral method to produce a unique system of foreign language teaching: Suggestopedia. In a pleasant classroom, 12 students sit in specail chairs in front of a teacher individually trained in the foreign language and in…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Class Activities, Class Size, Dialogs (Literary)
PDF pending restorationMoore, Helen H. – 1994
The illustrated guide provides vocabulary for common classroom terminology in 15 languages: Arabic; Bengali; Chinese; Farsi; Haitian-Creole; Hindi; Italian; Korean; Polish; Russian; Serbo-Croatian; Spanish; Tagalog; Urdu; and Vietnamese. The languages are those most commonly spoken by immigrants to the United States. For each language there are…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Classroom Communication
National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, Arlington, VA. – 1978
A list is presented of resources for information on bilingual programs and materials in languages other than Spanish. The entries are arranged in four categories: "East Asian,""Native American,""Territories of the Pacific," and "Other Languages." The specific languages listed are: Cambodian, Chinese, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Thai,…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Arabic, Armenian, Bilingual Education
Hudson River Center for Program Development, Glenmont, NY. – 1999
The purpose the Native Language Literacy Screening Device (NLLSD) is to give English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) practitioners a sense of the native language literacy levels of learners coming into their programs. This is worth knowing because when learners have had limited schooling in their first language instructional strategies used…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Albanian, Arabic
Wadden, Jerry M. – 1992
The Des Moines (Iowa) Public Schools foreign language program for K-12 is described and evaluated. The evaluation report focuses on six areas, including: (1) school district mission and philosophy of foreign language instruction; (2) context (state policies and standards, foreign language program overview and enrollment, fiber-optic communication…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Chinese, Curriculum Development
California Foreign Language Teachers Association. – 1976
This document is a collection of articles on foreign language education from both state and national sources. The articles deal with trends in the field, resources for the foreign language teacher, creative student work and audiovisual teaching aids. The volume is divided into the following sections: (1) general language (including the articles…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Bilingual Education, Career Opportunities, Class Activities
Stryker, Stephen B., Ed.; Leaver, Betty Lou, Ed. – 1997
A collection of essays contains articles on content-based foreign language courses at three levels (beginning, intermediate, advanced) and on foreign languages across the curriculum, including: "Content-Based Instruction: From Theory to Practice" (Stephen B. Stryker, Betty Lou Leaver); "Content-Based Instruction in a Basic Russian…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Arabic, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction
Gatto, Angelo – 1993
Curriculum Options for Pupil Enrichment (Project COPE) is a federally-funded program that served 192 limited-English-proficient students in one Brooklyn (New York) high school in 1992-93, its first year of operation. Students were native speakers of Russian, Italian, Arabic, Urdu, Korean, Vietnamese, Polish, Haitian, and Greek. They received…
Descriptors: Arabic, Attendance Patterns, Bilingual Education Programs, Career Awareness
Ervin, Gerard L., Ed. – 1981
Papers in this volume on individualized instruction in foreign languages include: (1) "Individualized Instruction and 'Back to Basics': Are They Compatible?" by Howard B. Altman; (2) "Individualized Instruction in French at Northwestern University" by Margaret Sinclair Breslin; (3) "An Individualized French Program for…
Descriptors: African Languages, Arabic, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conversational Language Courses
Smith, Wm. Flint, Ed. – 1991
This book, the second of two volumes devoted to instructional media in second language instruction, focuses on specific applications of advanced technology in the classroom. The first part, "Applications," contains seven chapters. They are: "The Language Laboratory in the Computer Age" (S. E. K. Otto); "Television…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
Aldridge, Fiona – 2001
A representative sample of 4,000 adults aged 16 and over in all three nations of Great Britain were surveyed regarding the languages they currently speak, their current participation in language learning, and their future language-learning intentions. The following were among the key findings: (1) 29% of adults can speak one foreign language, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingualism, Blacks, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Direct linkOrsini-Jones, Marina – ReCALL, 2004
This paper reports on the results of an action research project at Coventry University that consisted of the evaluation of a curriculum innovation supported by the use of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) WebCT, i.e. a new module (course): "Academic and Professional Skills for Language Learning". The project was carried out…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Action Research, Online Courses, Innovation
