"The Third Force in Language Teaching"

By: Leon James, Ph.D.

University of Hawaii

1972

Table of Contents:

PART I: A CRITIGUE OF PSYCHODYNAMIC AND HUMANISTICAL DEFINITIONS OFLANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING

Preface

I. Introductory Note

II. The Humanistic Blitz-krieg

III. The Politics of Topics in Psychology

IV. The Psychodynamics of LanguageTeaching and Language Learning

V. Summary of the Psychodynamic Approach

A. Scope of Language Teaching

B. Nature of Language Learning Ability

C. Psychiatric Assumptions About Students

D. Psychiatric Assumptions About Teachers

E. Advice to the Language Teacher on Method

PART II:

VI. Transactional Engineering and LanguageTeaching: A Radical Alternative

Eighteen Propositions on the Nature ofDiscourse

Summary Principles Relating to theTechnology of Discourse

Corollaries on the Technology ofDiscourse

VII. Implementing a TransactionalEngineering Program: Hints to the Language Teacher

A. Exercises for Conversational Interaction

B. Exercises for Reading Skills

C. Exercises for Writing Skills

D. Exercises for Communicative Contact

E. Exercises for Verbal Articulation

Summary Hints

VIII. Outline

Appendix