This study was conducted to investigate the hypothesis that science teaching, properly done, could have an effect on language usage among elementary school students. A population of 14 fourth-grade classrooms was randomly divided into experimental and control groups. All teachers attended workshops for 90 minutes every two weeks throughout the…

In the first phase of this study, a graduate class in social dialects was divided into four groups. The experimental group was exposed to a detailed transformational analysis of standard and black English. They were administered a language attitude survey and completed a self-evaluation of their ability to teach effectively speakers of black…

This paper examines the use of oral dialogue journals as an integral part of foreign language instruction. It discusses the strengths and weaknesses of oral (audiotape) journals, and compares them to written journals. The paper then explores the use of oral dialogue journals in the teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to adult students…