Tests on children between five and nine led to the conclusion that children's ability to recognize synonymous structures is progressively developed over a period of years and that there is a scale of difficulty involved. Paper presented at the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs Annual Conference, May 1969. (FWB)

After suggesting that instructional strategists should concern themselves with the problems of maximizing positive transfer, of representing language in all its modes, and of stressing the purposive character of language behavior, this article presents a schema for teaching a point of language structure which takes these factors into account. (FB)