The second of a two-volume series of the Foreign Service Institute's "German Basic Course," this text contains 12 units of instructional materials intended for classroom use. Each unit contains: (1) basic sentences, (2) notes to the basic sentences, (3) notes on grammar, (4) substitution drills, (5) conversion drills, (6) variation…

Thirty lessons of instructional materials in conversational Vietnamese are included in this text. The model dialect is representative of the Hanoi area. Lessons are composed of six essential parts: (1) pronunciation theory and practice, (2) basic dialogues, (3) notes on usage, (4) grammar notes, (5) pattern practice drills, and (6) exercises. A…

Discussion of teaching methods used with the text, "Deutsch, Erstes Buch" by Hugo Mueller, focuses on practical approaches to the problem of teaching culture through the spoken language and the use of pattern practice. While concentrating on Chapter Eight, "In der Sommerfrische," discussion is presented in subdivisions characteristic of every…

This is a listing of recorded drills to accompany lessons 1-45 in "Elementary Modern Standard Arabic." Those recorded drills which are written out in the textbook are referred to in this list, but are not written out. Those recorded drills which are not found in the textbook are written out in this listing for the convenience of the…

Describes a teaching game for drilling on the imperative and the progressive tenses. Some variations of the game are described. (IFS/WGA)

Four phases of teaching are described: (1) motivation; (2) questions on the text and on particular words; (3) expansion exercises--examples from the text, with quiz-exercises for repetition; (4) transfer, in which the student is led to contradict and to give examples of his own. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Discusses the notion of "social language" and problems of syllabus design for teaching social language to foreign students studying in the United Kingdom. Presents exercises which stress the communicative aspect of language. (AM)

Discusses first and second language acquisition in terms of behavior modification and structural exercises in terms of operant conditioning. The validity of the comparison is also discussed. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Based on a 1972 lecture from a Lower Saxony Inservice Teacher Education Course at the Ludwig-Windhorst-Haus, Holthausen bei Lingen, West Germany. (DD)

Paper, together with a presentation of audiovisual materials, read at the Second International Congress for Applied Linguistics at Cambridge, England, in 1961. (DS)