This article outlines ways of helping students to develop informal or expressional features at the non-verbal level of communication. (DB)

Filled with examples of French slang and colloquialisms, this article notes the importance of learning such everyday language to speak French correctly. (CHK)

Part of a continuing series. (DD)

This book is concerned with language as it is used by the teacher, as it affects the learner, and as it can function to integrate the curriculum. Douglas Barnes, in "Language in the Secondary Classroom," discusses the student-teacher language interaction in 12 sample lessons, and analyzes the importance upon student learning of the languages used…

Ideas regarding the language needs of children from poverty areas and how best to meet these needs. (GB)

A review of the difficulties Spanish-Americans and Mexican-Americans encounter in learning English, caused by a lack of knowledge of common idioms and figures of speech in current usage, leads to a discussion of two pilot studies in which the frequency of occurrence of idiomatic and figurative constructions in the reading materials presented to…

Advocates a reworking of lexical pedagogy with reference to the instruction of techniques of expression. (Text is in French.) (AM)

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…

Problems and methods of teaching practical stylistics to students of Russian are discussed. (RM)

Suggests methods for helping children develop and maintain the art of conversation. (RB)

It is important for the Romanian language teacher to teach the language as a cultural entity, to convey the exact values of the language. If translation cannot be dropped entirely, it is very important for the student to accept what is typical and untranslatable in itself and to identify himself with the native speaker. Although every language has…

BASED ON A SERIES OF CONFERENCE PAPERS BY VARIOUS AUTHORS, THE BOOK CONSIDERS BOTH EMPIRICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE AND MENTAL RETARDATION AND THEIR INTERRELATIONSHIPS. LITERATURE REVIEWS PROVIDE BIBLIOGRAPHIES ON RELEVANT RESEARCH (68 RESEARCH, 1955-66) AND ON LANGUAGE AND MENTAL RETARDATION (149 CITATIONS, 1929-66). FURTHER PAPERS ON…

The article describes five case studies of pupils (4-to-9-years-old) with delays in expressive language performance who were enrolled in the Monterey Language Program, which uses a behavioral model stressing such features as feedback and individualized instruction. (LH)

THIS GUIDE DESCRIBES A PROGRAM FOR DEVELOPING THE FACULTIES OF DEAF CHILDREN THROUGH LANGUAGE TRAINING. THIS CURRICULUM ATTEMPTS TO INSURE SEQUENTIAL LEARNING FOR DEAF STUDENTS AS WELL AS TO PROVIDE TEACHERS WITH AN OVERALL PICTURE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE. MATERIALS ARE ARRANGED ACCORDING TO EIGHT LEVELS. A LINGUISTIC APPROACH TO THE…