Report on a panel of educators discussing the needs of students in the area of writing mechanics. (GB)

The normal" six-year old has control of all aspects of his language when he begins attending school. The teacher must expand these skills. (MF)

Proposes a language instruction process, including a diagrammatical presentation of the language process, for use with disadvantaged children as a means of expanding their use of the linguistic system and their range of linguistic experiences. (RB)

Control of standard dialect necessary to school learning; students need to be trained in choosing appropriate speech styles for different contexts. (JH)

It is important in beginning reading instruction to let the child guess at unknown words, allowing the context to provide feedback. (JH)

Urges classroom teachers to examine the current language research and dialect discoveries in order to teach effectively.

Discusses some of the problems and subtle discrimination facing Spanish-American students in schools in the southwestern United States. (TO)

Training in listening improves speech, and therefore reading abilities. (JH)

Successful teachers of reading to minority children must be linguistically sophisticated. (JH)

Studies the difference in language used in children's television shows and in children's books

Focus of the study was to assess linguistic competence as manifested by an ability to recognize ambiguity of three types: lexical, surface structural, and underlying structural. (Author)