Four major difficulties encountered by Iraqi learners of English when pronouncing English vowels are outlined and discussed, and suggestions for the teacher of English are made. (RM)

Sequence of consonants in English and Arabic is discussed phonologically. It is suggested that such detailed contrastive studies are useful to: (1) second language teachers in pinpointing areas for classroom attention, (2) language typologists, and (3) typists and printers. (JB)

Diglossia is characterized here as a pattern in which a culture recognizes different language varieties. This paper deals with implications of Arabic diglossia for the teaching of English to Arab students. (CHK)

Analyzes the actual knowledge of French of Arabic-speaking and Portuguese immigrants with particular emphasis on their use of French verbs. The aim is to better prepare a methodology for the teaching of standard French to these workers. (Text is in French.) (TL)

This supplement to the Peace Corps Course in Tunisian Arabic is intended primarily for Peace Corps volunteers, but is also useful to other English speakers who wish to acquire systematically a knowledge of Tunisian Arabic. The dictionary consists of two parts. The lexicon, which begins with a chart of all the phonetic symbols used in the…

Two short articles describe some unusual educational radio programing. A program on African literature is broadcast by the Iowa State University radio station and consists of discussions, talks and readings. Programs are transcribed onto cassettes and kept in the university library. The second article notes that Radio Cairo has produced a textbook…

This work asserts that contrastive analysis should be regarded as a technique of research and not limited to error prediction and material preparation. Introductory observations are made on the state of the field, the domain of contrastive analysis, contrastive analysis and transfer, and contrastive analysis and foreign language instruction. In…

This article investigates a specific foreign language (FL) learning problem, the substitution of /s,z/ for English unvoiced and voiced "th" by native speakers of Egyptian Arabic, and concludes that the facts are better explained in terms of language transfer than by an explanation in terms of inherent difficulty independent of native…

This is a text for a basic course in Gulf Arabic, the language used in informal situations by the educated indigenous populations of the United Arab Emirates. A brief linguistic sketch of the area in which this variety of Arabic is spoken is given. The text is divided into forty-two units, each consisting of a dialog or narrative, a presentation…

This is a listing of recorded drills to accompany lessons 1-45 in "Elementary Modern Standard Arabic." Those recorded drills which are written out in the textbook are referred to in this list, but are not written out. Those recorded drills which are not found in the textbook are written out in this listing for the convenience of the…

This article discusses the importance of the teaching of phonetics to students of English as a Second Language (ESL) and describes the place of phonetics in a course for Iraqi students of English at the University of Mosul, Iraq. (CFM)

This paper investigates the difference in achievement among 20 University of Utah students of modern standard Arabic. One group of 11 students followed an intensive eight-week summer course, and a second group of nine students studied the same course during a regular academic year. Also reported on is the correlation between achievement and…

This bibliography cites English teaching materials for Arabic-Speaking countries. Entries include British and Middle Eastern publications, a sizeable number coming from the respective Ministries of Education. Most entries have been published since 1965. (CLK)

This volume contains the papers read at the Conference on Language and Language Behavior held at the University of Michigan's Center for Research on Language and Language Behavior in October 1966. Papers are ordered under the following topics: First Language Acquisition in Natural Setting, Controlled Acquisition of First Language Skills, Second…

Discusses the reasons for the occurrence of spelling errors in the writing of a group of Arab learners of English. (Author/HP)