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ERIC) Collection Languages and Creoles in the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Collection Full-text instructional materials accessible only through the ERIC Collection Compiled by Lee Vernon Douglas Library ofCongress May 2012 CONTENTS 1. AFRICA Soninke Kashmiri Akan (Twi-Fante) Sonrai KQowar Amharic Susu Korean Bambara Swahili Lao Bamboule Tamazight Malayalam Basaa Twi Marathi Chichewa Wolof Mongolian Dagbani Yoruba Nepali Djerma Oriya Dyoula Punjabi Ewe 2. AMERICAS Tamil Ewondo Aleut Telugu Fante Arikara Thai Fula Aymara Tibetan Fulfulde Cakchiquel Urdu Ga Guaranf Vietnamese Gbaya Haida Hausa Micmac Ibibio Mohawk 5. EUROPE Ibo Navajo Albanian Igbo Quechua Czech Jukun Spokan Danish Kabiye Tlingit Dutch Kanuri Yupik Finnish Kirundi Greek (modem) Kituba Hungarian Krio 3. MIDDLE Norwegian Lingala EAST Polish Luganda Arabic Romanian Lunyoro Armenian Russian Lwo Hebrew (modem) Serbo-Croatian Maninka Kurdish Swedish Mandinka Persian and Dari Swiss German Mano Turkish Mende More 6. CREOLES Nembe 4. EAST ASIA Belizian Creole Sara Bengali Haitian Creole Sesotho Burmese Jamaican Creole Setswana Cambodian Mauritian Creole Shilha Chinese Shona Hindi siSwati (Swazi) Japanese 7. PACIFIC Somali Kannada Aklanon Bikal Cebuano Hawaiian Hiligaynon Indonesian Kiribati Malagasy Malay Maranao Philippine languages Ponopean Madi Runus Dusun Samoan Tagalog AKAN Berry, Jack and Aidoo, Agnes Akosua. An Introduction to Akan. ED 119 520 Northwestern Univ., Evanston, 111.,1915. 342 p. AKLANON de 1a Cruz, Beato A. and Zorc, R. David Paul. A Study of the Ak1anon Dialect. Peace Corps, Washington, D.C. Volume One Grammar, 1968, 230 p. ED 145 105 Volume Two : Dictionary, 1969, 401 p. ED 145 104 ALBANIAN Albanian Geography and History. ED 055 490 Defense Language Inst., Washington, D.C., 1911. 112 p. Albanian Basic Course : Workbook for Exercises in Grammar. ED 055 508 Defense Language Inst., Washington, D.C., 1911. 82 p. Albanian Basic Course : Exercises in Grammar. ED 056 596 Defense Language Inst., Washington, D.C., 1911. 16 p. British Council, London Langu~ge Inst., Washington, D. C.! .'_. < Part I, A-M., 1948, 310 p. ED 060 158 Part II, N-Z, 1948, 306 p. ED 060 159 Albanian : A Survey of Albanian Language and Literature. ED 116 562 Defense Language Inst., Monterey, Calif., 1966. 53 p. Albanian .~ . Basic Differences Between Gege and Toske Dialects. ED 116 564 Defense Language Inst., Monterey, Calif., 1968. 26 p. Albanian Song Book. ED 176 565 Defense Language Inst., Monterey,~Calif., 1965. 88 p. ~lbanian Basic Course. Defense Language Inst., Monterey, Calif. Volume I : Lessons 1-16. 1965. 281 p. ED 176 566 Volume II : Lessons 17-26. 1965. 201 p. ED 176 567 Volume I : Lessons 1-16 : Translation and Cartoon Guide. 1966. 76 p. ED 176 568 Volume III : Lessons 27-36. ED 176 569 Albanian Basic Course Glossary Lessons 1-120. 1970. 354 p. ED 176 570 Volume IV : Lessons 37-46. 1966. 254 p. ED 176 571 Volume V : Lessons 47-54. 1966. 235 p. ED 176 572 Volume VI : Lessons 55-62. 1965. 267 p. ED 176 573 Volume VII : Lessons 63-72. 1966. 271 p. ED 176 574 Volume IX'/: Lessons 91-110. 1970. 245 p. ED 176 575 Volume X : Lessons 111-120. 1970. 82 p. ED 176 577 Basic Situations. 1970. 124 p. ED 177 888 Supplementary Reader : Vol. 3. 1974. 229 p. ED 177 889 Military Interpreting Practice : Vol. 1. 1966. 84 p. ED 177 890 Supplementary Materials : Military Interpreting Practice : Vol. 2. 1966. 138 p. ED 177 891 Supplementary Reader : Part 1. 1965. 108 p. ED 177 892 Verbs : Reference Material. 1964. 96 p. ED 177 893 Newmark, Leonard and others. Spoken AlbaniaJJ.. ED 192 615 Spoken Language Services, Inc., Ithaca, N. Y., 1980. 356 p. Newmark, Leonard and others. Standard Albanian : A Reference Grammar for Students. ED 193 923 Spoken Language Services, Inc., Ithaca, N. Y., 1980. 420 p. Newmark, Leonard and others. Readings in Albanian : Part 1. ED 195 133 Spoken Language Services, Inc., Ithaca, N. Y., 1979. 914 p. ALEUT Leer, Jeff, Comp. A Conversational Dictionary of Kodiak Alutiiq. ED 172 529 Alaska Univ., Fairbanks, 1978.· 122 p. AMHARIC Les1au, Wolf. An English-Amharic Dictionary of Everyday Usage. Part 1 A-L. 392 p. ED 012 044 Part 2 : L-Z. 388 p. ED 012 045 Obolensky, Serge and others. Amharic Basic Course. Foreign Service Inst., Washington, D.C •. Units 1-50. 1964. 521 p. ED 012 446 Units 51-60, Reader, Glossary. 1965. 560 p. ED 012 447 Barton, Donald K. and others. Fundamentals of Amharic. (Revised edition) Utah Univ., Salt Lake City. Units I-III : Pronunciation and Lessons 1-15. 1967. 345 p. ED 016 223 Units IV-VII : Lessons 16-35. 1967. 318 p. ED 016 224 Leslau, Wolf. Basic Amharic Dictionary : Amharic-English, English­ Amharic. Final Report. ED 100 127 Spons Agency--Institute of International Studies, 1972. 672 p. Leslau, Wolf. Intermediate Amharic Cultural Reader. Final report. ED 107 102 Spons Agency--Institute of International Studies (DREW/DE), Washington, D.C., 1973. 357 p. Abraham, R.C. The Principles of Amharic. ED 158 579 Ibadan Univ. (Nigeria). Inst. of African Studies, 1968. 240 p. ARABIC Lehn, Walter and Abboud, Peter. Beginning Cairo Arabic. Preliminary edition. ED 010 478 University of Texas, Middle East Lang. and Area Ct~, 1965. 311 p. Hanna, Semi A. Arabic Reading Lessons : Second Level. ED 011 III Utah Univ., Salt Lake City, Middle East Ctr., 1964. 213 p. Bateson, Mary Catherine. Arabic Language Handbook. ED 012 915 Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C., 1967. 139 p. Hanna, Semi A. and Greis, Naguib. Beginning Arabic : A Linguistic Approach From Cultivated ED 012 916 Ca~rene to Formal L~terary Arab~c. [s.l. : s .n. J 321 p. McCarus, Ernest and Rammuny, Raji. A Programmed Course in Modern Literary Arabic Phonology ED 028 443 and Script, 1-1ichigan Uni v., Ann Arbor, Center for Research on Language and Language Behavior, 1969. 202 p. Arabic Songs. ED 030 881 Defense Language Institute, Washington, D.C., 1959. 49 p. Modern Standard Arabic Basic Course. ED 030 886 Defense Language Institute, Washington, D.C., 1966. 2,412 p. ; 9 volumes. Arabic (Modern Standard) Basic Course: Minimum f\1ilitary ED 030 888 Vocabulary. Defense Language Institute, Washington, D.C., 1967. 27 p. Arabic 12 Weeks Course. ED 031 696 Defense Language Institute, Washington, D.C., 1963. 796 p. ; 3 volumes. Alami, Wali A. and Hodge, Carlton T., ed. Moroccan Arabic Intermediate Reader : Part I. ED 031 698 Indiana Univ., Bloomington. Intensive Language Training Center, 1969. 122 p. Alami, Wali A. and Hodge, Carlton T., ed. Moroccan Arabic Intermediate Reader : Part II. ED 031 713 Indiana Univ., Bloomington. Intensive Language Training Center, 1969. 75 p. Le Gassick, Trevor. Modern Arabic Prose Literature : An Introduction. ED 044 689 Michigan Uni v., Ann Arbor, 1970. 285 p. Absi, Samir Abu and Sinaud, Andre. Basic Chad Arabic. Indiana Univ., Bloomington. Intensive Language Training Center. The Pre-Speech Phase. 1968. 84 p. ED 052 669 Comprehension Texts. 1968. 50 p. ED 052 670 The Active Phase. 1968. 240 p. ED 052 671 Snow, James A. Levantine Arabic : Introduction to Pronunciation. ED 054 6667 Foreign Service (Dept. of State), Washington, D.C., 1971. 107 p. Arabic Basic Course : Basic Dialogues for Airport Facilities. ED 054 683 Defense Language Inst., Washington, D.C., 1971. 36 p. Smith, Harlie L., Jr., ed. Modern Written Arabic : Volume I. ED 055 517 Foreign Service (Dept. of State), Washington, D.C., 1969. 432 p. Omar, Margaret. From Eastern to Western Arabic. ED 096 853 Foreign Service (Dept. of State), Washington, D.C., 1974. 55 p. Glossary of Conference Terms : English, French, Arabic. ED 098 795 United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Patis (France), 1974. 386 p. Van Wagoner, Merrill Y. Spoken Iraqi Arabic : Book One. ED 104 118 [s.l. ; s.n.J, 1949. 282 p. Landau, Jacob M. A Word Count of Modern Arabic Prose. ED 104 120 [s .1. ; s.n • J, 1959. 508 p. Omar, Margaret K. Saudi Arabic : Urban Hi azi Dialect : Basic Course. ED 112 665 Foreign Service (Dept. of State, Washington, D.C., 1975. 307 p. Ferguson, Charles A. and Ani, Moukhtar. Lessons in Contemporary Arabic : Lessons 1-8. ED 130 502 Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, Va., 1964. 178 p. Omar, Margaret K. Levantine and E tian Arabic : Com arative Stud • ED 134 021 Foreign Service Inst., Washington, D.C., 197 . 76 p. Smith Harlie L., Jr. and Senhadji, Mohammed Allal. Moroccan Arabic : Introductory Course. Foreign Service lnst., Washington, D.C. Volume 1 Pronunciation : Units 1-50. 1969 239 p. ED 148 185 Volume 2 Units 51-95- 1970 270 p. ED 148 186 Naja, A. Nashat. Modern Written Arabic. Foreign Service Inst., Washington, D.C. Volume 2. 1974 397 p. ED 181 742 Volume 3. 1978 548 p. ED 159 891 Ben Abde1kader, Rached and others. Peace Corps English-Tunisian Arabic Dictionary. ED 183 017 Peace Corps, Washington, D.C., 1977. 575 p. Ben Abde1kader, Rached and Haouar, Aziza. Peace Corps/Tunisia Course in Tunisian Arabic. ED 183 018 Peace Corps, Washington, D.C., 1979. 509 p. Modern Standard Arabic· : Aural Comprehension Course. Defense Language Inst., Monterey, Calif. Volume I : Lessons 1-8. 1975 192 p. ED 188 468 Volume II : Lessons 9-16. 1975 207 p. ED 188".uG9 Volume III: Lessons 17-24. 1975 260 p. ED 188 470 Volume IV : Lessons 25-32. 1976 266 p. ED 188 471 Volume V : Lessons 33-40. 1976 268 p. ED 188 472 Volume VI : Lessons 41-48. 1976 289 p. ED 188 473 Volume VII : Lessons 49-56. 1976 244 p. ED 188 474 Volume VIII : Lessons 57-64. 1976 286 p. ED 188 475 Volume IX : Lessons 65-72. 1976 241 p.
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