A knowledge of areas of difficulty as well as their underlying causes is necessary before instructional materials, teaching techniques, and evaluation methods in foreign language instruction can be organized. This research describes three methods of analyzing the problems in foreign language learning and suggests their complementary role in…

RESEARCH GENERATED BY THE EXPERIMENTAL EDITION OF THE ILLINOIS TEST OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ABILITIES IS REVIEWED. TWENTY-FIVE STATISTICAL, REMEDIAL, AND LANGUAGE DISORDER STUDIES ARE SUMMARIZED ACCORDING TO PURPOSE, SUBJECTS, PROCEDURE, RESULTS, AND COMMENTS. SEVEN ADDITIONAL STUDIES ARE INCLUDED IN AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. FIFTY-FOUR OTHER…

Through an experiment investigating the processes used by several speakers of Asian languages to decode passages by speakers of Australian English, this paper seeks to establish and categorize the types of problems encountered by multilingual speakers when decoding the speech of monolingual speakers in one of their (the multilinguals') second…