Describes English modal verbs and their closest equivalents in Moroccan Arabic. Because there is no modal in Moroccan Arabic equivalent to 'must,' positive and negative deductions are arrived at using adverbs. Suggests this can be confusing to Moroccan learners of English. (Author/BK)

Explores use of phrase 'taken for granted' including 'accept as true' and 'to fail to give subject's due.' Suggests latter usage has been noticed by few dictionary compilers, and EFL learners find it difficult to use and understand. (Author/BK)

Briefly outlines progress in neurolinguistics including Broca's aphasia, multilingual aphasiacs, lateralization, and localization as possible explanations for problem of adult foreign language accent. (BK)

Presents several types of synophones, words similar in sound but different in meaning, including those differing in one phoneme only, more than one phoneme which can have an identical Latin root, and several phonemes which defy exact definition. Suggests validity of context as aid to comprehension of unknown words should not be overestimated.…

Presents results of survey conducted to discover the reading habits and preferences of secondary school students in Greece. Results show a high percentage read a newspaper often and the number of books read per month is high. (BK)

Stresses the need for all language teachers, and second language teachers in particular, to suit the content and the methodology of their lessons to their particular group of students. (PM)

A procedure is outlined for teaching spelling to students of English as a second language. (RM)

Factors to be considered in selecting a text for a foreign language classroom are divided into five categories--student/text relationship, curriculum/text relationship, class size/text relationship, teacher/text relationship, and internal construction of the text--are discussed. (RM)

Five ways are described in which the language laboratory can be used with students who have passed the stage at which they can profit from drills and other repetitive material. (RM)

Discusses teacher overload, learner underinvolvement, and learner training to support a switch of emphasis from teaching to learning materials and concludes that questions about materials should be related to conception of the whole of language teaching and learning as the cooperative management of language learning. (Author/BK)

Changes in a first-year course in English at the University of Ghana, Legon, are traced. The approach used in 1972-73 for language and study skills is outlined. The course as it was taught in 1973-74 is described in terms of note-taking, speaking and questioning techniques, reference skills, administrative problems, and further developments. (SW)

Describes and gives results of sample questionnaire used to determine priorities in reading techniques of both students and teachers when confronted with reading material in a second language. What students report as their reading activities and what teachers believe they should be are not the same. (Author/BK)

Discusses the claim that attitudes determine the way a foreign language is acquired v the claim that the exact opposite relationship exists. Concludes that the motivational hypothesis does not fully account for the relationship between attitude and success and that foreign language learning causes the formation of positive and negative attitudes.…