The World Wide Web has frequently been incorporated into second/foreign language (L2 hereafter) course instruction during the past decade. However, many teaching methods essentially employed it as a reactive mode of L2 instruction. Many other methods have been designed to facilitate constructive L2 production. They are, however, limited in their…

This writer questions some of the basic conventions of foreign language teaching in this country. As an alternative approach, he suggests an exploratory concept for grades 5-8. (Editor)

A method for individualizing the study of a literary text is presented. It emphasizes the need to develop the four skills while deemphasizing the traditional role of literary texts as a vehicle for acquiring critical literary skills. (Author/RM)

Author talked to Louis Alexander, a best-selling English author virtually unknown in his own country. (Editor/RK)

Criticizes the three leading Russian textbooks used in West Germany for not basing their phonetic teaching on a firm knowledge of Russian phonemes. Suggestions are made for incorporating a "minimum phonetics" into a basic Russian course. Authentic language situations, imitation, and theory are important. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Reviews the content of the courseware contained in "EXITO: Survival Spanish," noting that this course is divided into 10 chapters and contains material typically covered in a beginning Spanish course (e.g., vocabulary units including greetings, family members, time expressions, etc.). The primary strength of the EXITO program is that it is a…

The literature suggests that teachers may rely more often on intuition when making course planning decisions than on informed assessment of learners' needs (Barkhuizen 1998; Spratt 1999). This article proposes a more principled alternative to the intuitive approach, based on the use of teacher-designed class-specific questionnaires intended to…

The belief that students can make valuable contributions to course design through continuous feedback leads to the consideration of alternative methods of learning that involve students in this process and inspire the development of a new relationship: student-teacher partnership in course evaluation and revision. In this partnership, students…

These proceedings contain the papers of the 10th International Conference on Mobile Learning 2014, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, in Madrid, Spain, February 28-March 2, 2014. The Mobile Learning 2014 International Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and…

Two experimental bilingual classes in French begun in Somerset, Scotland, in September 1973 are described. Included in the course are the study of the language itself and of geography and French civilization through the French language. (RM)

This paper provides a brief survey of the uses of videotape recording (VTR) in the field of foreign language education. Points in favor of VTR are: 1) it reproduces the totality of the speech act, and 2) it is ideal for individualized instruction. (TL)

The Modern Language Association conducted a survey of career-oriented, community-related interdisciplinary, and non-traditional foreign language offerings in US colleges and universities. Informal descriptions are given of seven such courses relating to the teaching of literature. (Author/RM)

An individualized program at the third-year level in French at the University of Toledo is described. (RM)