Intergrating Comprehension Skills in Foreign Language Learn-ing

FAIN: ES-*0243-77

University of Texas Press (Austin, TX 78712)
Janet K. Swaffar (Project Director: November 1976 to October 1990)
Betty Weber (Co Project Director: June 1977 to August 1978)
Betty Weber (Co Project Director: June 1977 to August 1978)

To introduce a 1st year course of foreign language instruction in 4 high schools and to develop an existing 1st year experimental program at the college level to replace the 4-skills foreign language learning approach with a listening/reading emphasis approach. Project will focus on content and meaning of language, exclusion of grammar details peripheral to comprehension, through student textbooks, teacher manuals and training program.