Grammatical description that relates structure to language use can help the EFL teacher in cases where different interpretations of experience are expressed in English and the students' native language by, for example, clauses that are structurally identical. (Author/RM)

Dramatic advances in personal computer technology have given language teachers access to vast quantities of machine-readable text, which can be analyzed with a view toward improving the basis of language instruction. Corpus linguistics provides analytic techniques and practical tools for studying language in use. This volume includes both an…

Revised version of a paper read at the 1969 meeting of the Argentine Association of Teachers of English in Cosquin, Argentina. (DS)

Research reported at the University of Leipzig, May 29, 1970. (WB)

Identifies three types of pausing adn discusses their relevance to language teaching. (FB)

Summarizes the most basic rules for indirect speech in English but claims that they are useless if taught strictly as rules; also insists on the necessity for contextualization in drills on indirect speech. (FB)

Discusses the influence a first language can have on the acquisition of a second language. Includes some tentative proposals on the interaction of prior first-language knowledge and the creative construction process. (EKN)

Briefly discusses theories on second language reading strategies and describes pilot study conducted at University of Ottawa using cloze procedure to help determine roles of syntactic versus semantic cues and similarities and/or differences between L1 and L2 reading strategies. (Author/BK)

Describes difficulties with nominalization and with the rhetoric of scientific papers experienced by English of Science and Technology (EST) students, relating nominalization occurrence to scientific rhetorical divisions. Finding significant differences in that-nominal construction frequency between rhetorical sections, suggests coordinating…