Article to be continued. (RL)

Discusses the problem of choosing among many linguistic theories for second language instruction. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Surveys some basic issues of modern linguistics and the theory of language teaching. Examines the notion of creativity in human language, a concept regarded here as basic to any linguistic description and as fundamental to all pedagogical applications of linguistics. (Text is in French.) (Author)

Discusses the relation between linguistic theories and language teaching in terms of teaching methods and teacher education. (Text is in French.) (AM)

The foreign language teacher cannot rely simply on linguistic theory as it stands today. Foreign language teaching calls for its own linguistic theory. However, it should be possible, in constructing a FL teaching grammar, to integrate such a teaching theory with current linguistic theory. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Continuing series on the problems of teaching Spanish. This first article emphasizes spelling rules. (DS)

Linguistic theories cannot always be successfully applied to language teaching, but this article advocates the use of the single-stem verb system in teaching Russian. This system simplifies both teaching and learning Russian verb conjugation. (CHK)

Presents a novel approach, relying on linguistic principles of semantics, to teach grammatical usage in Spanish as a second language. (AM)

Summarizes Robert Lado's ideas on language testing and the study of linguistics. (DS)

This article traces the history of several themes in applied linguistics and to show the relationships between linguistic theory and the sciences concerned with the learning and teaching of languages. Interest in word frequency statistics is discussed in particular. (Text is in Italian.) (CFM)