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1. Pour une ecole ouverte aux langues. Actes du Collogue organisi par le Centre de Contact Suisses-Immigres (CCSI) (Geneve, Suisse, le 19 novembre, 1994) = Toward a School Open to Languages. Proceedings of a Colloquium of the Centre de Contact Suisses-Immigres (CCSI) (Geneva, Switzerland, November 19, 1994).

Author

French Inst. for Research and Educational Documentation, Neuchatel (Switzerland). and Goumoens, Claire de

Abstract

The proceedings of a Swiss conference on languages in education include: a brief preface about the conference topic; summaries in French, Albanian, German, English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; background information on the conference; statistics on the home and community languages of Swiss elementary and secondary school students; the conference introduction, "Pour une education bilingue" (Toward Bilingual Education) presented by Anna Lietti; notes on parent language use in Albanian and Italian communities; teachers' perceptions of language use in Spanish, Portuguese, Bosnian, and Albanian communities; six research papers; text of a roundtable discussion concerning the challenge of opening schools to diverse languages; a conference summary; and a list of relevant journals. The papers include: "Une experience interculturelle a l'ecole primaire de la Chaud-de-Fonds" (a primary school experiment at Chaud-de-Fonds) (Philippe Moser); "Une experience d'eveil aux langues" (a language awareness experiment) (Christiane Perregaux); "Un projet interculturelle a l'ecole du Mail a Geneve" (an intercultural project at a Geneva school) (Sylviane Magnin Hottelier); "Une ecole privee bilingue allemand-francais" (a private German-French bilingual school) (Henri Moser); "Une experience anglais" (an English experiment) (Daniele Moore); and "Les bibliotheques interculturelles dans les ecoles" (intercultural libraries within schools). Contains 44 references. (MSE)

Published
1995

2. Acquisition des competences discursives dans un contexte plurilingue (Acquisition of Discourse Competencies in a Multilingual Context).

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Neuchatel Univ. (Switzerland). Inst. de Linguistique. and Berthoud, Anne-Claude

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This collection of articles on second language learning in a multilingual environment includes: "Franzosisch-Deutsch: Zweisprachiges Lernen au der Sekundarstufe 1" (French-German: Learning Two Languages at Secondary School, Level 1) (Otto Stern, Brigit Eriksson, Christine Le Pape, Hans Reutener, Cecilia Serra Oesch); "Das Projekt 'Zweitsprachunterricht im obligatorischen Schulsystem': Konzept, empirische Daten und erste Ergebnisse" (Second Language Learning in the Official School System) (Hansmartin Zimmermann, Iwar Werlen); "La pluralite des contextes et des langues: une approche interactionnelle de l'acquisition" (Multiplicity of Contexts and of Languages: An Interactional Approach to Acquisition) (Laurent Gajo, Petra Koch, Lorenza Mondada); "Apprentissage du francais en Suisse alemanique: des systemes educatifs aux situations extra-scolaires" (French Language Learning in German Switzerland: From Educational Systems to Out-of-School Situations) (Simona Pekarek, Victor Saudan, Georges Ludi); "Competences orthographiques et taches d'ecriture" (Orthographic Competence and Writing Tasks) (Linda Allal, Laurence Rieben, Yviane Rouiller); "Description and Assessment of Foreign Language Learning Proficiency in the Swiss Educational System" (Brian North); and "A propos des methodes communicatives: la transposition didactique en FLS" (A Propos of Communicative Methods: Instructional Transposition in French as a Second Language) (Itziar Plazaola Giger). Individual papers contain references. (MSE)

Published
1996

3. Vivre Babel au quotidien (Living Babel Every Day).

Author

Institut Romand de Recherches et de Documentation Pedagogiques, Neuchatel (Switzerland). and Merkt, Gerard

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A discussion of multilingualism in Switzerland begins with a description of the country's linguistic characteristics. Historical Swiss policy recognizing four official languages, one of which (Romansch) is spoken by very few people, is compared with the current situation in which internal and external migration and multilingualism are common. The minimal role of the schools in helping manage this situation is criticized, but increased efforts to improve education's role are noted, particularly in the areas of bilingual education and language immersion. Three educational models are described briefly. The first allows students to repeat their last year of compulsory schooling in another area of the country. The second model focuses on maintenance of Romansch. The third is two-way bilingual education. Based on current conditions and predicted trends, some possible directions for Switzerland are explored. (MSE)

Published
1994

4. La conception et le role des materiels pedagogiques dans l'enseignement des langues secondes (The Conception and Role of Instructional Materials in the Teaching of Second Languages). CILA Bulletin, No. 29.

Author

Commission Interuniversitaire Suisse de Linguistique Appliquee (Switzerland). and Redard, F.

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This special issue concerns the content, function, and form of instructional materials dealing with second language instruction. The following articles appear: (1) "Deliberate Semantics--an 'Interventionist' Approach to Second Language Teaching Methodology," by A.P.R. Howatt; (2) "Sprechakte und Sprachunterricht (Speech Acts and Language Research)," by T. Ebneter; (3) "Materiels pedagogiques et/ou materiels heuristiques (Pedagogical Materials and/or Heuristic Materials)," by R. Richterich; (4) "Texte linguistique et representation iconographique (The Linguistic Text and Pictorial Representation)," by E. Arcaini; (5) "A propos de la conception d'une unite didactique dans le cadre du francais, language etrangere (On the Idea of Didactic Unity in the Framework of French, Foreign Language)," by A. Barrera-Vidal; (6) "Accuracy and Fluency as Polarities in Foreign Language Teaching Materials and Methodology," by C. Brumfit; (7) "La linguistique et le reste dans la conception des materiaux pedagogiques pour l'enseignement scolaire des langues secondes (Linguistics, etc. in the Concept of Pedagogical Materials for the Teaching of Second Languages)," by D. Coste; (8) "Lehrwerkanalyse und Lehwerkkritik aus der Sicht der linguistischen Pragmatik (Analysis and Criticism of Instruction from the Point of View of Linguistic Pragmatics)," by M. Pelz; and (9) Reve et Realite (Dream and Reality)," by G. Capelle. A synthesis article concludes the volume. (AMH)

Published
1979