This booklet forms a part of the Hungarian-English Contrastive Linguistics Project which is concerned with investigating the differences and similarities between these two languages with implications for second language acquisition. The papers here deal with the Hungarian writing system. Initial remarks concern the relationship between script and…

This study examined the psycholinguistic implications of using either of two different types of orthography--syllabic and roman--in Native language programs for Cree children with regard to readability, learnability, and the transfer of reading skills to and from reading in an official language (English or French). This study can also be applied…

A glossary and a set of translations are contained in this volume which is to be used with the authors'"Reading in Somali An Elementary Cultural Reader." Two types of translation are presented for each lesson; a literal translation and an English translation which presents the substance of the selection in standard English sentence patterns. The…

This volume is a preliminary edition of an elementary Somali reader. The materials were designed to serve three purposes: (1) to provide experience with rather simple expository Somali prose, (2) to provide an elementary introduction to Somali culture, and (3) to accompany the students' study of spoken Somali. It is noted that there is no official…

The primary purpose of this experiment is to determine the effect of reading development based on phonemic transcription and traditional orthography on the pronunciation of French as a second language. Sixteen level 1 French classes in Western New York State schools participated in the experiment in which the control and experimental classes…

This set of color-coded, phonetic diagrams of French vowels, semivowels, and consonants is intended to help students experiencing difficulty in mastering particular phonological features of the language and for use as an audiovisual aid in phonetics classes. Each diagram provides a color-contrasting description of the French sound and the…

This is the third of three volumes intended to be used as pedagogical materials in advanced Urdu courses at Western colleges and universities. An optional set of tape recordings and an optional set of 35mm slides accompany the three-volume work. Volume III first includes an appendix describing the phonemic alphabet (with rough correspondences to…