This essay is an overview of the state of language arts and sciences, or theory and applied skills, and it surveys literacy levels, ability in both native and second languages, language education and linguistic theory. (CK)

This collection of abstracts taken from issues of Resources in Education and Current Index to Journals in Education was compiled in response to the sudden and intense demand for information and materials resulting from the arrival in the United States of thousands of Vietnamese refugees. There is more material here on the teaching of Vietnamese to…

This volume is a collection of articles which are concerned with the field of applied linguistics. Part One, "Language and Linguistics," includes two articles: "Language" and "The Relevance of Linguistics." Part Two, "Linguistics and Spelling," consists of one article, "Sounds and Spellings; Spellings and Sounds." Part Three, "Linguistics and…

These reports deal with language as a whole: its nature, its history, its relationship to culture, its acquisition, the immediate uses to which it can be put, and the development in students of an appreciation for the ability to use a foreign language. The book is divided into three main sections: Acquisition, Application, and Appreciation. For…

This bibliography on psycholinguistics and teaching English as a second or foreign language includes checklists, bibliographies, anthologies, readers, collections, books, monographs, and articles. (CFM)

This book provides a comprehensive review of the major areas of applied linguistics with original contributions by fourteen scholars. The following chapters are included: (1) "What is Applied Linguistics?" by H. Douglas Brown; (2) "Language Development," by Lois Bloom; (3) "First Language Teaching," by Jean Malmstrom (discusses the teaching of…

This collection of five papers from the Anglo-American Seminar on the Teaching of English deals with language standards, common attitudes toward language, the relationship between linguistics and the teaching of English, and the linguistic component of the preparation of the English teacher. Albert H. Marckwardt surveys the history of language…

While verbal language has traditionally determined our view of intelligence, this limited view ignores other systems for expressing intelligent thought. An expanded concept of language considers verbal language as one part of a mental modeling system, or internal representation, for any kind of sensory information available to us, visual or…

Discusses the meanings of 10 words in their relation to language teaching. They are: educate, language, teach, learn, sociology, linguistics, politics, culture, literature, and classicism. (Text is in French.) (KM)

This article argues that courses in linguistics should be included in all teacher training programs, whether the students are training to be general teachers or language teachers specializing in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) or Foreign Languages in the Elementary School (FLES). Details of lectures and assignments for two topics,…

The relationship between performance in mathematics and the understanding of mathematical text is examined in the case of students who have to learn the discipline in a language which is not their mother tongue. No correlation between performance and text understanding was found. (MN)

Presents a restatement of the three basic constructs of "language ego,""language ego boundaries," and "permeability of language ego boundaries," discusses interdisciplinary "borrowing" of constructs, and examines the question of theory validation. (Author/AM)

Several aspects of language--code, relation of structure to meaning, creativity, capacity to influence thought--are discussed, as well as reasons for including foreign language study in school and university. (RM)

Reading in English as a second language for Filipino students presents the Philippine schools with special problems. The sounds, rhythm, and intonation of English differ from the native Filipino language and so deeply ingrained language habits interfere with learning. The teacher is usually a second language speaker of English. And, there exists…