It is argued that mastery of verbal aspect in Russian calls for the development in the student of a novel pattern of linguistic perception for actions and occurrences. (Author/RM)

Attempts, through clarification of the term "translation," to define and put in place, from a methodological point of view, the latent tendency to reach back to the native language system, and its effect on the learning of the target language. (Text is in French.) (IFS/WGA)

Examines reasons for dissatisfaction with audiolingual methods for language instruction (LG)

Based on an analysis of textbooks, a presentation of four basic functions of clarity, or graphic presentation in the textbook (geographical, semantic, situational, stimulating) as well as their place and functions in the learning processes, on the basis of discoveries by A. N. Leontyev and P. Ja. Galperin. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

From the Contents: Character of knowledge of value, procedure and norms; its transmission and actualization (activation), presented through examples from Grades 5 to 10; the dialectic reciprocal relationship of all kinds of knowledge (including practical knowledge); its role in the development of personality. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Summarizes the usefulness and the disadvantage of error analysis, and discusses a reorientation of error analysis, specifically regarding grammar instruction and the significance of errors. (Text is in French.) (AM)

A teacher of five hearing impaired children (9- 11 years old) with severe language acquisition problems analyzed the students' utterances according to the psycholinguistic theories of R. Brown. (CL)

THESE EXPERIMENTS WITH VERBAL BEHAVIOR WERE CARRIED OUT AS AN EXTENSION AND ADAPTATION OF GENERAL LABORATORY PRINCIPLES DEVELOPED WITH ANIMALS. THE EXPERIMENTS COVERED THREE AREAS. THE FIRST WAS AN APPLICATION OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF VERBAL BEHAVIOR, LARGELY BASED ON SKINNER'S ANALYSIS, TO THE PROBLEMS OF TEACHING A SECOND LANGUAGE. ACTUAL…

Ten variables involved in learning a second language are listed and discussed and a bibliography on the subject given. (RM)

An examination of the linguistic act, defined as a linguistic utterance which is an expression of a concrete situation. The conditioning factors of linguistic utterances are considered as well as the relationship of these factors to language instruction. (RS)

This bibliography includes titles of unpublished works in various fields of linguistics such as grammar (morphology, phonology and syntax), socioli nguistics, psycholinguistics, foreign language instruction, language acquisit ion, discourse analysis, poetics, etc. (Text is in German.) (DS)