Discusses linguistic competence and performance and how analyzing second language learners' errors can provide clues about their interlanguage, which is useful not only for pedagogical reasons, but also for the forwarding of general linguistic theory. (EKN)

Paper presented to the Fifth Rehovot International Conference on Science and Education in Developing States," Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, August 1969. (VM)

A testing technique is reported for testing oral production which attempts to combine the advantages of the interview test and the standardized, discrete-point test and to improve standardization of tests of oral production. (RM)

Discusses the difference between communicative competence and linguistic performance. Describes the development, administration, and results of a three-part discrete point test based on rather specific definitions of communicative competence. (EKN)

Among the topics discussed in a consideration of linguistic errors are the following: (1) errors and linguistic theory, (2) hypotheses on the origin of speech errors, (3) psychological reality of distinctive features and the syllable, (4) structural valence and linguistic errors, and (5) errors and text structure. (SW)