Argues that social language should be delayed in a second language course until a core of factual language has been built up. The article presents an account of verb-form clustering and of some of the problems caused by discrete treatment of verb forms. It also suggests how to implement verb clustering within the context of syllabus design. (11…

Suggests that language teaching involves the interaction of different rationalities, a rationality being the way in which a participant or group of participants perceives a teaching situation and the goal structure they pursue in this situation. Particular focus is on the rationality of methodology. (Author/VWL)

Argues that the "voices" of English-as-a-Second-Language teachers have received too little attention in second-language learning research and that, too often, teachers have had to implement "visions" of teaching-learning generated by academics in institutions of higher education. Using interviews with Thai teachers of English,…

Examined the effectiveness of four instructional approaches for teaching English vocabulary to Korean elementary school students: (1) paper and pencil, (2) computer-based word-for-word, (3) computer-based word-for-word plus picture, and (4) computer-based context. Found that the computer-based context group outperformed the other groups. (18…

Addresses the accessibility of texts produced by the Overseas Development Administration. This research analyzes a corpus of texts and shows that factors making the texts difficult include poor linguistic structure, contextual structure, conceptual structure, and unclear operationalisation of the reader-writer relationship. (18 references)…