THE APPARENT DISAPPOINTMENT AND SLACKENING OF ENTHUSIASTIC INTEREST IN LANGUAGE LABORATORY INSTRUCTION IS MOST PROBABLY NOT DUE TO A FUNDAMENTAL LACK OF EFFECTIVENESS, BUT TO METHODOLOGICAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PROBLEMS YET TO BE SOLVED. MOST IMPORTANT, THE RESTRICTIVE DEPENDENCE OF LABORATORY MATERIAL ON CLASSROOM LESSONS MUST BE ABANDONED. ONLY…

This book "represents an effort to present in simply and readily understood terms some of the sounds in English that create problems for the Spanish speaker learning English." Each of the 18 chapters teaches a specific consonant through a comparison of the Spanish and English pronunciations, facial diagrams, explanations of articulation, minimal…

This text, a beginning course in Navajo, is not intended to supplant materials already extant; it is designed to serve as an introduction to the phonology and some of the basic structures, upon which the learner may continue to develop his speaking skills. A short prefatory section presents the sounds of Navajo with simplified descriptions of…

This paper discusses ways in which the findings of phonetic research, especially in the area of articulatory phonetics, can be applied to language teaching. Phonetic descriptions of a relatively sophisticated sort are seen to be useful in language pedagogy in several ways: (1) by providing the student with a knowledge of what he's trying to do…

Three papers were presented at a seminar which identified problems in migrant education. Dr. Jess Walker from the Department of Teacher Education at Western Michigan University emphasized the role of the teacher in molding the lives of children and the need for special training for teachers of the disadvantaged. Dr. Mary Harbage, Professor of…

This work is a revised edition of the author's "Spoken Uzbek," originally written for class use at Indiana University in 1952-53. Comprised of 25 lesson units and five review units, the format follows the general outline of the earlier ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) "Spoken Language" courses: basic sentences are presented in build-up…

This article makes two points about foreign language: (1) proper pronunciation is indispensable to initial accuracy and comprehension, as well as to later study of literature and culture; and (2) the best approach to pronunciation is based on the native language as a contrastive model. Taking as an example the learning of German by…

A BASIC COURSE IN YORUBA, A LANGUAGE OF WEST AFRICA, IS PROVIDED IN THIS TEXT. THE COURSE IS DESIGNED TO BE USED WITH TAPE RECORDINGS AND IS DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS--(1) THREE SERIES OF TONE DRILLS WHICH CONCENTRATE ON THE TONE PATTERNS OF SHORT VOWELS IN SHORT UTTERANCES, THE TONE PATTERNS OF LONG OR DOUBLE VOWELS IN SHORT UTTERANCES, AND THE…

The teaching of pronunciation generally consists of selecting, presenting, drilling and correcting the sounds of the target language. The learning of pronunciation involves neuromuscular and some cognitive ability, but it also has affective and social components, which carry important implications for the role of the teacher. (Author)

Describes a course in pronunciation produced in Buenos Aires as a supplement to a school textbook in German. The course, available on tape, was tried out in twelve schools, and was found usable beginning with Grade 3. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

The specific problems involved in teaching pronunciation cannot be solved by the techniques of phonemic analysis alone. What is needed is an extension of these techniques to include the principles of textual phonetics. (CFM)

Describes a study which examined the phoneme acquisition process by monitoring children's progress toward the goal of being able to use a target behavior in multiple situations after treatment has been withdrawn. This was done to determine whether progress continues if treatment is withdrawn before the end goal is reached. (SED)

As language instruction has focused on communicative competence, pronunciation has become neglected, as if it would disturb the harmony of the language curriculum. Although the principle of the new curriculum emphasis is sound, the problem of maintaining pronunciation's place remains. Suggestions are given for teaching pronunciation in this…

A speech visualizer which provides a student with an immediate reinforcement in the form of a visual "feedback" of his own performance is vastly superior to other methods of teaching prosodic elements of speech in a second language, according to experiments carried out at the University of Toronto. (CFM)

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)