The first ACADEMOS (Academic Demonstrations) was held during the 1971 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and presented a smorgasbord of demonstrations encompassing many instructional modes, both traditional and avant-grade. (Author/PR)

Summarizes 18 papers given at the Fourth Biennial Conference on Chemical Education that dealt with innovative instructional methods or theories, including instructional objectives, audiotape-slide programs, and criterion-referenced evaluation. (MLH)

This collection of 32 research papers presented to the Research and Theory Division at the 1979 convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology represents some of the most current thinking in the educational communications and technology field. While each paper was intended to stand alone, they have been grouped in five…

THE NEW METHODS AND TECHNIQUES IN EDUCATION INCLUDE RADIO, TELEVISION, AND PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION. RADIO PRESERVES THE BASICALLY ORAL PRESENTATION OF MATERIAL WHILE TELEVISION, COORDINATING BOTH AUDIO AND VISUAL MATERIAL, CAN BE AT LEAST AS EFFECTIVE IN DEVELOPING THE CONCEPTS OF CAUSALITY AND RATIONALIZATION, REDUCING THE DISTANCE BETWEEN…

This list, written in Czech with some English translation, contains over 900 items on foreign language teaching methods published outside Czechoslovakia during 1966. It represents the third volume of a bibliography, the first and second volumes having been issued in 1965 and 1967 respectively. Only the first and second sections of this volume…

A meeting of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization confirmed that teachers and research workers have been faced with the problem of diversification of methods and techniques in language teaching and with the necessity of adapting approaches to the specific needs of the many categories of learners. A new approach in…

Conclusions and recommendations of the 10th Congress of the Federation Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes based on papers, speeches, and discussions of language research in many different countries are presented. A three-part section on audio-visual aids comments upon: (1) the value and limitations of the language laboratory, (2)…

Summaries of workshop presentations dealing specifically with practical suggestions for dealing with sexism in instructional materials are presented here. The following topics are discussed: (1) sex bias in beginning texts by A. V. Willeke and R. H. Sanders--a discussion of teaching strategies to counteract sex-role stereotyping arranged under the…

Included in this volume are the reports dealing with the effective use of audiovisual media in foreign language instruction and developed by the working committees of the sixteenth annual Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Six individuals prepared the media descriptions and selected the demonstrations described in the…

The twenty-eight papers that make up the second part of the proceedings of the twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages cover a wide range of topics relating to foreign language teaching and linguistic theory: German culture and civilization; sexism in language; bilingual education; bilingualism and…