Essays, all in French, address issues in language teacher and translator training. They include: "Les competences linguistiques et discursives du redacteur professionel: un ensemble a circonscrire" ("Linguistic and Discourse Competencies of the Professional Editor: A Unity To Define") (Celine Beaudet); "Les composantes d'un enseignement systemique…

A study investigated differences in native and non-native French speaking teachers' patterns of error correction of second-year students' compositions. Subjects were eight university teaching assistants (TAs), four native speakers of French and four non-native speakers. Data were drawn from photocopies of all students' corrected compositions…

This study investigated the attitudes of American students learning Irish as a second language about error correction. Subjects were 45 former students in summer programs in an Irish university, who were asked how they preferred to have their papers corrected by Irish language teachers. Most (64 percent) preferred full editing on essays, finding…