Presents a methodology for dealing with grammatical mistakes made by African students for whom French is a second language and also the medium of instruction. (Text is in French.) (AM)

A proposal to use the language of technology as the principal tool in teaching French to adult beginners. A sample module using technical language familiar to all consumers is given in detail. Such a course is designed for technicians, scientists and other interested adults. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

A detailed description of the "Dictionnaire contextual de francais pour la geologie." This study is used as an example of such a dictionary serving as a basic tool in the study of functional French. Such dictionaries can be useful in conceptual approaches to language learning. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Discusses the construction of the corpus of scientific French upon an epistemological base. Three topics are treated: the need for such a base because of the differences existing among scientific languages, the value of such an approach, and some suggestions on method. Pedagogical consequences are noted. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

The hypothesis that beginners in a foreign language can learn to read specialized texts before they are able to express themselves adequately is explored. Examples of texts such as ads and news articles dealing with various specialties are given. Pedagogical procedures accompany each text. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

In this resume of a longer study, a true bilingual is defined as one who in fact possesses two native languages and so is accepted as a native in each culture. The distinction between true bilingualism and ability to speak a second language is made. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

A discourse analysis of sixty French children aged ten to twelve from two socioeconomic groups. The object of the study was to describe the syntactic-semantic functioning of their language in an "abstract" situation and to determine the degree of influence of socio-cultural factors. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

A description of a study whose object was to analyze the oral language used in class by nine-year-olds from varied socioeconomic backgrounds. The procedure, results and the linguistic characteristics according to situation are described. Several statistical tables are provided. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

A description of research in education for communication with specific reference to the native (French) language class. Linguistic mastery is the ability to adapt the language to various situations. The pedagogical implications of research in the relationship between types of communication and linguistic structure are immense. (Text is in French.)…

This article outlines the linguistic control criteria of the CILA (Swiss Interuniversity Commission for Applied Linguistics) for a series of tapes dealing with the problem of the "schwa" in French. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/CLK)

This article examines research done in Switzerland on languages in contact, and concludes that the limited amount of such research is due to the fact that the various languages spoken in Switzerland are spoken in adjacent areas in which bilingualism is rare. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/CLK)

Revised version of an article which appeared in the June 71 Bulletin" of the Centre de Recherche de l'Education Specialisee et de l'Adaptation Scolaire. (VM)

Attempts to show how the surface structure of conversation can be described by means of a few principles and simple categories, regardless of its level of complexity. Accordingly, proposes a model that emphasizes the pragmatic functions of certain connectors and markers in the context of conversation exchanges. Societe Nouvelle Didier Erudition,…