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Low, Lesley; And Others – 1993
A pilot program of foreign language instruction in Scottish elementary schools is evaluated. The program consisted of 12 projects in 76 elementary schools, articulated with their 12 associated secondary schools. French was taught in six projects, Spanish in four, and German and Italian in one each. Regular classroom teachers were trained and given…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Articulation (Education), Class Activities
Brod, Richard I. – 1985
Data from a national survey of colleges and universities with foreign language programs revealed an increase of 4.5% in total foreign language registrations between 1980 and 1983, the first general increase noted since 1968. Registrations increased by over 10% in Chinese, Italian, Japanese, and Russian. French, Spanish, German, and the aggregate…
Descriptors: Arabic, Chinese, College Second Language Programs, Enrollment Rate
Freudenstein, R., Ed. – 1978
Essays that consider the way that women are portrayed in foreign language textbooks are presented. The selected essays were submitted to a competition sponsored by the Federation Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes, which requested that language teachers assess such concerns as: (1) whether women were described in a stereotyped way;…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Family Life
Peace 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

Birch, 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
Djite, Paulin G. – 1994
Based on an Australian study creating sociolinguistic profiles of nine languages other than English (LOTE) commonly used in Australia, the report examines implications for public language policy and planning. The languages are: Arabic; Chinese; French; German; Modern Greek; Indonesian/Malay; Italian; Japanese; and Spanish. The report begins by…
Descriptors: Arabic, Chinese, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy
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)

Benseler, David P.; Lannoch, Martha Calvert – Modern Language Journal, 1994
Findings are reported from the annual survey of doctoral degrees granted in foreign languages, literatures, cultures, linguistics, and foreign language education in the following categories: African, Asian, French, Germanic, Italian, Near and Middle Eastern, Slavic, and Spanish languages/literatures; classics; comparative literature; theoretical…
Descriptors: African Languages, Afro Asiatic Languages, Austro Asiatic Languages, Cultural Awareness
Pinton, Rae; Strong, Irene – 1984
This manual is designed for use by both teachers and students in an English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) job-search skills program, and is intended for use by students at the upper beginner or lower intermediate language proficiency level. The content can be used as a complete job search skills program, a resource for program development, a…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Arabic, Chinese, Employment Interviews

Moore, 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
Donaldson, Judy P. – 1980
This instructional aid for elementary and secondary teachers of English as a second language recommends itself especially to those situations where a bilingual teacher and a formal bilingual program are not available. The first item presented is a letter to parents translated into each of the 21 languages covered. The letter urges the parents to…
Descriptors: Arabic, Basic Vocabulary, Bengali, Bilingual Education
Pletcher, Barbara P.; And Others – 1978
The test reviews in this guide are intended to be used by school personnel charged with locating and administering appropriate assessment instruments to limited-English-speaking elementary school children. Assessment instruments are reviewed for native speakers of Chinese, French, Italian, Navajo, Portuguese, Spanish and Tagalog. Each instrument…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Attitude Measures, 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