It is argued that a student's poor written English is often bound up with his confusions about the content and rhetoric of his various disciplines. The use of language specialists to assist subject specialists in clarifying the nature and source of difficulty is seen as a possible solution to the problem. (JMD)

Writing is a highly complex process requiring skills that are not possessed by all students. In some cases, students may have been taught writing skills before they were developmentally ready for them, thus diminishing their future ability to learn those skills. Some students may have specific learning disabilities, sometimes affecting only the…

This comparison of 15 successful and 15 unsuccessful college foreign-language learners found significant intergroup differences in performance on the Modern Language Aptitude Test, tests of written and oral language in the syntactic and phonological domains, and math calculation. Results suggest that students with foreign language learning…