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- the humanities and social sciences, such as history, geography, philosophy,
psychology, pedagogical research, linguistics, sociology, the legal, political and economic
sciences; comparative studies on social, socioeconomic and cultural phenomena which are of
common interest to the participating States, especially the problems of human environment
and urban development; and scientific studies on the methods of conserving and restoring
monuments and works of art.
(d) Foreign Languages and Civilizations
To encourage the study of foreign languages and civilizations as an important means
of expanding communication among peoples for their better acquaintance with the culture of
each country, as well as for the strengthening of international co-operation; to this end to
stimulate, within their competence, the further development and improvement of foreign
language teaching and the diversification of choice of languages taught at various levels,
paying due attention to less widely-spread or studied languages, and in particular:
- to intensify co-operation aimed at improving the teaching of foreign languages
through exchanges of information and experience concerning the development and
application of effective modem teaching methods and technical aids, adapted to the needs of
different categories of students, including methods of accelerated teaching; and to consider
the possibility of conducting, on a bilateral or multilateral basis, studies of new methods of
foreign language teaching;
- to encourage co-operation between institutions concerned, on a bilateral or
multilateral basis, aimed at exploiting more fully the resources of modem educational
technology in language teaching, for example through comparative studies by their specialists
and, where agreed, through exchanges or transfers of audio-visual materials, of materials
used for preparing textbooks, as well as of information about new types of technical
equipment used for teaching languages;
- to promote the exchange of information on the experience acquired in the training of
language teachers and to intensify exchanges on a bilateral basis of language teachers and
students as well as to facilitate their participation in summer courses in languages and
civilizations, wherever these are organized;
- to encourage co-operation among experts in the field of lexicography with the aim of
defining the necessary terminological equivalents, particularly in the scientific and technical
disciplines, in order to facilitate relations among scientific institutions and specialists;
- to promote the wider spread of foreign language study among the different types of
secondary education establishments and greater possibilities of choice between an increased
number of European languages; and in this context to consider, wherever appropriate, the
possibilities for developing the recruitment and training of teachers as well as the
organization of the student groups required;
- to favour, in higher education, a wider choice in the languages offered to language
students and greater opportunities for other students to study various foreign languages; also
to facilitate, where desirable, the organization of courses in languages and civilizations, on
the basis of special arrangements as necessary to be given by foreign lecturers, particularly
from European countries having less widely-spread or studied languages;