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This collection of articles on language teaching and language acquisition theories includes: "Enseignement des langues et theories de l'acquisition. Introduction au colloque" ("Language Teaching and Theories of Acquisition. Introduction to the Colloquium") (Rene Richterich); "Apprendre une langue dans l'interaction verbale" ("Language Learning in Verbal Interaction") (Bernard Py); "Processus cognitifs de base dans l'acquisition des langues" ("Basic Cognitive Processes in the Acquisition of Languages") (Daniel Gaonac'h); "L'acquisition du langage: comparer pour generaliser" ("The Acquisition of Language: Comparing for Generalization") (Michele Kail); "Approches comparatives dans l'acquisition des langues: generalisations et applications" ("Comparative Approaches to Language Acquisition: Generalizations and Applications") (Clive Perdue); "Fremdsprachenunterricht auf wissenschaftlicher Grundlage" ("Foreign Language Teaching and Scientific Foundations") (Wolfgang Butzkamm); "Table ronde" ("Round Table") (Anne-Claude Berthoud); and "Recherche et theories en acquisition des langues: quel interet pour les enseignant-e-s?" ("Research and Theories in Language Acquisition: What Interest for Teachers?") (Susanne Wokusch). Individual papers contain references. (MSE)

A text-editing approach to composition in the foreign language classroom is set forth. In a 15-week composition course meeting three times each week, students prepare a weekly composition that they will revise after an in-class text-editing session involving several student papers. The third day is devoted to grammar work. Criteria for evaluating student compositions are set forth. Progress in writing skill is enhanced by careful attention to prose style, and students are encouraged to write pastiches. Finally, students are required to keep a journal. Testing and grading are discussed, and situations commonly encountered by teachers are dealt with. Appendices include suggestions for or samples of personal assessment statement, course introduction for a basic French composition course, grammar mid-term, student evaluation of course, prose style analysis checklist, grammar review sheet, sentence-embedding exercises, and tests. Samples of student work (composition outlines, prose style analyses, and pastiches) are presented, most with the actual text-editing corrections of the teacher. The paper concludes with suggested texts for pastiche exercises. (JB)

At a colloquium held at Gent University in Belgium, educators from various countries presented papers on problems relating to educational research, educational policy, and teacher training. The first paper in this compilation to be presented at the colloquium concerns a clarification of the Unified Socialists Education Act which was the decisive factor for the development of mass education in Germany. The second paper describes the new organization in Finnish teacher education, consisting of Departments of Teacher Education that have been established at every Finnish university as part of the Faculty of Education. The third paper discusses the importance of social sensitivity as a factor in the teaching process. The final paper describes contemporary problems in education using Northern Ireland as an illustrative example. (JN)

Seven papers on experimental research topics in education, written by educators of various nationalities, are compiled in this volume. The first paper, written in French with an English summary, explores the ability of the teacher to exercise an indirect influence over student behavior and the systematic training of certain teacher behaviors to regulate their mode of action in the classroom. The second paper describes an empirical investigation of some of Sir Herbert Read's views relating to art education. The third paper promulgates a hypothesis which indicates a direct relationship between the training provided teachers and administrators and the type of educational preparation received by American public school students. The fourth paper, also in French with an English summary, discusses research which demonstrates by computer techniques that the readability of texts in French is poorer than in English. The fifth paper explores how a group of black South African university students perceive the goals of their education within an ethnically segregated university. The sixth paper evaluates the personality development of secondary school students from the suburbs of northern Paris. The seventh paper uses U.S. census data to correlate the variables of socioeconomic status and academic achievement. A chronicle of information about current international trends in educational research is appended along with information pertaining to the current events in the World Association for Educational Research. (JN)

This journal of educational research contains five papers written by a group of international authors. The first is a study of change in professional attitudes of student teachers that investigated the nature and extent of the change in their professional attitudes, and compared sex differences. The second paper is a technical examination of the predictive powers of stepwise multiple regression as a tool for estimating the degree of success that can be expected of students in collegiate vocational programs. The third paper is a study in which second grade students were given the reward of time off with games and books for remaining in their seats. The number of teacher reprimands was compared in each case. The fourth paper describes a model of social and individual change which relates to teacher training in the consideration of educational objectives, diagnosis of and alteration of the situation, and resulting feedback. The fifth paper is a study of whether an informal sequential program of experiences in a school setting is more effective than in the home setting in fostering the development of prenumber concepts. A chronicle of current research projects and information concerning the World Association for Educational Research are appended. (JN)

This journal of educational research contains five papers written by international authors. The initial paper presents the evaluation of a French immersion program for students from the second through the fourth grade in Toronto. The aim of the second paper, written in French with an English summary, was to find the attitude dimensions of French Canadian primary school teachers and to discover the contents of those dimensions. The third paper, also in French, describes an experiment of computer assisted instruction for diabetic, insulin dependent patients. The fourth paper identifies problems experienced by first year university students of various ethnic backgrounds at the University of Fort Hare, South Africa. The final paper investigates relationships among locus of control, difficulties with social groups, and psycho-social difficulties in social situations. Current educational research being done by various international educators is chronicled, and information about current events of the World Association for Educational Research is presented. (JN)

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)

This journal publishes scholarly articles on all aspects of language pedagogy, linguistics, foreign cultures and languages, and comparative, classical, and foreign (Asian, French, German, Italian, Luso-Brazilian, Scandinavian, Slavic, Spanish, and Spanish American) literatures. It is published annually, based exclusively on a representative number of papers given at the annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Council on Languages. (KFT)