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Carlos Rivera

Bio: Carlos Rivera is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 1 citations.

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TL;DR: A comprehensive annotated bibliography on the teaching of foreign languages in the elementary grades was included by Andersson (3) in his monograph on this subject in 1953 as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: MOST important among the general bibliographies published since 1951 are those by Powers (59) , Tharp (73) , and Van Eenenaam (80, 81) . A comprehensive annotated bibliography on the teaching of foreign languages in the elementary grades was included by Andersson (3) in his monograph on this subject in 1953. Special annotated bibliographies of audio-visual aids, especially films and slides, have appeared regularly in the Modern Language Journal in a department headed by José Sánchèz. Judging from the distribution of titles in the various bibliographies (of which representative articles are cited below), the student of trends in foreign language teaching should have no difficulty concluding that the last three years have witnessed a high level of interest in the following: the teaching of languages in the elementary grades (7, 19, 20, 22, 23, 26, 47, 51, 52, 55, 78, 79) ; the development of the aural-oral abilities as objectives (1 , 8, 12, 45, 46, 6 8 ) ; the creation of specially equipped language laboratories (15, 21, 27) ; orientation of language teaching to the life adjustment objectives and general education movement (4, 11, 13, 17, 18, 28, 32, 33, 37, 71, 75, 83, 84, 8 5 ) ; and the application of linguistics and semantics to the teaching process (9, 12, 69) . Committees of the American Association of Teachers of German published their recommendations in 1954. The Committee on Tests (38) favored the development and use of aural-oral tests and the increased use of items of the definition or situation type in objective examinations. The Committee on Textbooks (31) based its recommendations on 473 replies to a questionnaire sent to secondary schools and colleges. The returns favored the inclusion of cultural content, especially area study materials, and a less technical and more functional treatment of grammar. The report by White and others (88) on the status of and practices in the teaching of foreign languages in the public elementary schools of the United States surveyed the field as of January 1953. The use of the vernacular languages in education was the subject of a special monograph published for UNESCO (77) in 1953.

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