This grammar handbook analyzes the rules of Tanzanian Swahili and provides different types of exercises on them. It is divided into 36 lessons and is illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings. A bibliography, index, and Swahili-English glossary complete the volume. (AMH)

This grammar handbook analyzes the rules of Setswana and provides many types of exercises on them. It is divided into 15 units, one of which is a review. Each unit is introduced by an objective and presents explanations of points of grammar with several types of oral and written exercises. The appendix contains verb reference charts, a…

A HANDBOOK OF ENGLISH SEQUENTIAL PATTERN DRILLS FOR TEACHING ENGLISH GRAMMAR TO SPANISH SPEAKING STUDENTS IS PRESENTED. EACH SECTION CONTAINS TEACHERS' NOTES, STUDENTS' LISTS, AND WORKSHEETS. THE FOUR MAJOR FORM-CLASSES OF WORDS ARE STUDIED--THE NOUN, THE ADJECTIVE, THE VERB, AND THE ADVERB. DRILLS ARE USED TO TEACH WHEN THEY OCCUR, THEIR SIGNAL…

NEW ANALYTICAL INSIGHTS INTO THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE BEING TAUGHT CAN BE HELPFUL TO THE LANGUAGE TEACHER. TWO SUCH CONCEPTS, "ENATION" AND "AGNATION," ARE PRESENTED IN H.A. GLEASON'S "LINGUISTICS AND ENGLISH GRAMMAR.""ENATION" IS THE GRAMMATICAL RELATIONSHIP OF TWO SENTENCES WHICH HAVE THE SAME GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE BUT ARE UNRELATED IN MEANING. ONE…

DESIGNED FOR USE BY 10TH GRADE STUDENTS AFTER COMPLETION OF THE LEVEL I TEXT, THIS VOLUME ALSO COMPRISES 15 LESSON UNITS PLUS APPENDED INDEXES AND A SECTION ON WRITING NEW CHINESE CHARACTERS. THESE MATERIALS WERE DESIGNED ACCORDING TO THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON CHINESE LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. ACCORDING TO THEIR…

TRADITIONALISTS FREQUENTLY MAINTAIN THAT AUDIOLINGUAL TECHNIQUES, IN THEIR DEEMPHASIS OF GRAMMATICAL THEORY, TEND TO BE SUPERFICIAL AND UNSCHOLARLY. ADVOCATES OF THE NEWER METHODOLOGIES COUNTER BY INSISTING UPON THE NECESSITY OF WELL-CONSTRUCTED DRILL MATERIAL IN ABUNDANCE AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL. THE DIFFERENCE IN THE APPROACHES DERIVES FROM TWO…

THE OVERLY STRINGENT APPLICATION OF THEORIES OF RULE-GOVERNED GRAMMAR TO LANGUAGE TEACHING CAN CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR THE LEARNER. ELABORATION OF A RULE OF GRAMMAR IN ADVANCE OF DRILL HOLDS THREE DANGERS--(1) THE FALSE SECURITY WHICH RESULTS WHEN THE STUDENT FEELS THAT HE HAS LEARNED SOME ELEMENT OF VERBAL COMMUNICATION BECAUSE HE CAN STATE THE RULE,…

This audiolingual text is designed to serve as supplementary material for a beginning course in Finnish, to be introduced "when the student has mastered much of the basic structure of Finnish and about 700 lexical items." The authors suggest that it may also be used as an intermediate course. The text comprises 57 graded reading selections…

"Speak Dutch" is a revised and augmented edition of "Modern Dutch, A First Year College Level Audio-Lingual Course for Dutch." The text is organized into 26 regular lessons and four review lessons plus indexes to grammar points and vocabulary and a list of verb paradigms. The first lesson (40 pages) is devoted to systematic presentation of the…

This manual is designed to provide oral practice supplementary to Section II of T.W. Clark's "Introduction to Nepali" (Cambridge, 1963). The 27 chapters contain dialogs, narrative descriptions, drills, exercises, suggestions for guided conversation practice, notes on the grammar and culture, and references to the grammatical analyses in…

The constrastive analysis presented here is Volume Three in the author's series "A Contrastive Analysis of English and Vietnamese." Other volumes already published are "English Grammar, A Combined Tagmemic and Transformational Approach" [AL 002 422] and -Vietnamese Grammar, A Combined Tagmemic and Transformational Approach." The volume covering…

This text in basic Arabic is audiolingual in approach and is based specifically on Muslim Baghdad Arabic, which can generally be understood throughout Iraq and to some extent throughout the Arab world. Units 1-10 present a description of the phonological system of Iraqi Arabic, with detailed explanations and drills designed to help the student…

Twenty-three units comprise this basic course. Each unit consists of a dialog; questions on the dialog; notes on the syntax, morphology, and phonology of Kabyle; pattern drills; and a narrative based on the dialog. Early units (I -VI) also contain notes on the pattern drills. Phonemic transcription is used throughout. (DO)

Intended for use with English-speaking students, this text is based on the most frequent errors of interference and overgeneralization made by these students learning Modern Greek. The material is presented in the form of translation drills from English into Greek. Each drill begins with a sample sentence given in both languages followed by nine…

This 24-unit audiolingual course in Haitian Creole is prefaced a map of Haiti, an introduction providing an historical and cultural background of the language and its speakers, a description of the sound and grammar systems, and a summary of spelling rules. Units are made up of dialogs based on some phase of the culture, followed by grammar notes…