This booklet presents a reading and writing intervention program for French Canadian preschool children with developmental delays, to be implemented by parents or collaboratively by parents and teachers. The program calls for children to have frequent contacts with written language, in order to facilitate the development of a positive attitude…

Proposes a study of the various ways in which words and groups of words can be matched with single non-coded pictures as an aid to foreign language instruction, particularly French. (AM)

Proposes an approach to French language instruction for adults which relies on materials of a political nature. (AM)

Proposes research that analyzes differences in the linguistic behavior of individuals and groups, within the context of three conversational situations, in order to determine whether these differences can be ascribed to sociocultural differences. (AM)

Discusses the importance of instructional media, especially audiovisual media, in teaching French to adults in a continuing education program. (AM)

Proposes a language pedagogy for migrant workers that takes into account the economic, cultural, and social characteristics of the target population, as well as the nature of the target language. (AM)

Discusses bilingual bicultural education in the French elementary schools, specifically some results of a pilot project in the Paris area. (AM)

Describes research on decoding and reading strategies involving three six-year-old migrant children learning to read in French. (AM)

Proposes a method for French language instruction that uses an unidentified object, that is, an object constructed in such a way as to represent different things to different students. (AM)

Discusses the "image," its role in modern society, and its role in a meaningful second language pedagogy for children. (AM)

Reports on a study which sought to compare syntax acquisition in French by francophone and non-francophone children, in order to establish the order in which French grammatical elements are acquired, and in order to create a French version of the Bilingual Syntax Measure. (AM)

Describes the contrasting structures of negation in French and in Hungarian. (AM)

Discusses the role of written French both in traditional and contemporary teaching methods. (AM)

Examines syntactic and semantic constructions of French verbs denoting and causing emotions; and lists these verbs according to infinitive, "active" adjective, and "passive" adjective. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Discusses an experiment in progress to prove that irony in written texts is discernible to the non-native speaker through logical or linguistic cues. (Text is in French.) (AM)