Summarizes the major concepts, issues, materials, methods, and recommendations related to dialects and dialect instruction. (DP)

Deals with monolingualism in foreign language teaching, taking up for consideration the work of Dodson ("Language Teaching and the Bilingual Method," London, Pitman, 1967) and his research. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

A method in two stages: (1) to associate the Russian word with an English word that sounds like the foreign word, (2) to form a mental image of the foreign word "interacting" with the English translation. (Author)

Includes materials on general and applied linguistics; C.R.E.D.I.F. is the Centre de Recherche et d'Etude pour la Diffusion du Francais. (DD)

The two Chinese Linguistics Conferences held at Princeton in October 1966 and 1967 treated respectively (1) the relevance and specific application of computer methods to the problems of Chinese Linguistics and (2) a series of interrelated problems in teaching Chinese--dictionaries, courses in classical Chinese, and methods of teaching and…

A CONSTITUENT STRUCTURE OF HINDI WAS FORMULATED TO ACCOUNT FOR THE PHENOMENA OF COMPOUND AND CONJUNCT VERBS IN THE LANGUAGE. THE TRADITIONAL CLASS OF CONJUNCT VERBS OR THE COMPOUND VERBS, CONSISTING OF NOUN OR ADJECTIVE PLUS VERB, WAS REINTERPRETED IN THIS ANALYSIS. THE FOUR SECTIONS OF THE TEXT DEALT WITH (1) THE SUBJECT-PREDICATE KERNEL…

Research efforts designed to improve Russian language instruction are described. (DE)

The science of applied linguistics is discussed in terms of characteristics, theory and interaction with other disciplines. (CHK)

Briefly summarizes the papers presented at the 10th annual convention of the German Language Institute in Mannheim. The relationship between linguistic research and its applicability in the area of language instruction is discussed. (Text is in German.) (DS)

Stress in the English language is a key to information distribution in a sentence. This paper gives experimental evidence that, in speech, each word is given stress according to the degree to which that word can be predicted as an item in a sequence of items. (CK)

These two issues of the "SLANT" Newsletter for researchers in second language acquisition are highlighted by reports on research in progress in France. Also included are reports from the 1977 Los Angeles Second Language Research forum, including abstracts of presentations at the Forum. (JB)

This issue of the "SLANT" Newsletter for researchers in second language acquisitions is highlighted by reports of research in progress in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Germany. Also included are reports of various second language conferences, a list of upcoming conferences, and announcements of developments that are of…

SPONSORED BY THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE, THE INSTITUTE OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS OF STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY, AND AN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF SPECIALISTS MEETING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NANCY, L'ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DE LINGUISTIQUE APPLIQUEE (L'AILA) WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1964. ITS PRINCIPAL AIMS ARE (1) COORDINATING RESEARCH, INFORMATION, AND ACADEMIC…

THE DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED BY SPEAKERS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH IN ATTEMPTING TO MASTER THE PRONUNCIATION OF EGYPTIAN ARABIC WERE ANALYZED DURING THE REPORTED RESEARCH. THE LANGUAGE UNDER CONSIDERATION WAS THE URBAN COLLOQUIAL ARABIC OF THE EGYPTIAN DELTA. THIS STUDY DEALT WITH THE SEGMENTAL PHONEMES ONLY, WITH SOME REFERENCE TO STRESS AND…