Presents a technique for increasing student's interest in language study. (RB)

Takes issue with educational systems which stress only oral language skills to the detriment of written skills. (DD)

Some of the difficulties of developing a student's ability to write in aforeign language are discussed, and specific suggestions are made of ways to teach this skill. (RM)

Reviews one study of writing across the secondary curriculum and focuses on interrelationships of language development, research, and teaching. Advocates that school systems institute guidelines by which all teachers, regardless of their specialist areas, take responsibility for students' overall language development. (RL)

Based on the recognition that all teachers are involved in language development regardless of the students' ages or the teachers' subject matter interests, this text augments descriptions of language characteristics with appropriate classroom implications. Topics of chapters are: the nature of language, descriptions of the sound and grammatical…

This study of written language development and instruction of elementary school children found that realistic approaches are needed in teaching language usage, dialects, and registers. These approaches should include a nonrepetitive instructional system accounting for different linguistic abilities, a diagnostic evaluation of children's written…

This book is based on a large collection of material gathered over two years (1969-71) as part of the Schools Council Project on Language Development in the Primary School. It gives priority to the discussion of student-produced materials in primary schools, and its primary aim is to select for attention the more promising ways in which language…

AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS, ARTICLES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, AND STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS COMPILED BY THE CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS FOR TEACHERS OF READING IS PRESENTED. THE MATERIALS ARE LISTED CHRONOLOGICALLY IN THREE GROUPS--PART 1, 1942-66, GENERAL REFERENCES REFLECTING THE THINKING OF LINGUISTS ABOUT LANGUAGE, ITS DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH…

THIS BOOK IS DESIGNED TO DEFINE APHASIA AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS, TO PRESENT A PROCEDURE FOR TEACHING LANGUAGE TO APHASIC CHILDREN, AND TO APPLY THIS PROCEDURE TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUBJECTS. OTHER HANDICAPPING CONDITIONS WHICH COMPLICATE THE DIAGNOSIS OF APHASIA ARE PRESENTED BY MEANS OF CASE STUDIES. CHARACTERISTICS OF TWO TYPES OF…