The claim that the best language teaching materials are based on a contrast of the two competing linguistic systems has long been a popular one in language teaching. It exists in strong and weak versions, the strong one arising from evidence from the availability of some kind of metatheory of contrastive analysis and the weak from evidence from…

The information processing model, as distinct from the information theoretic model, is useful in discussing language and reading. Linguists can aid in the teaching of reading by furnishing information on linguistic competence. Appears in "The Florida FL Reporter special anthology issue "Linguistic-Cultural Differences and American Education. …