Describes a method for teaching composition skills based on the reading and rewriting of different texts. (AM)

Demonstrated effectiveness in eliciting growth in number of words per T-unit through the use of sentence-combining exercises in a college composition course and related frequency of embedding errors to data on length of T-unit. (DD)

For children in school whose fluency in English (as a second language) is minimal, reading instruction using the language experience approach has proved successful. (JM)

An elaboration of the official instruction on teaching French to native speakers in elementary school. The topics covered are: Methodological development of exercises; the linguistic ability and milieu of the students; operative criteria; and the question of a logical progression or spontaneous use of grammar exercises. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Offers an analytical model to assist teachers and students in decoding social and cultural meaning embedded in the visual track of any given television program. To illustrate the model, the Public Broadcasting System's production of "The Scarlet Letter" is analyzed. (MBR)

Offers a practical model for teaching the extended modifier that is economical and linguistically sound, based on the insights and methodology of transformational generative grammar. Five transformational rules are given for generating extended modifiers from relative clauses. Examples of transformations and two class exercises in German are also…

The psycholinguistic method of teaching reading stresses the use of the child's oral language ability and syntactic and semantic information. (JH)

The Japanese Keigo system is the whole of the grammatical rules related to expressions of respectful or pejorative feelings concerning all persons involved in speech acts. This article proposes a new approach to the problem of teaching this system at the elementary level. (CLK)

Based on experimental plan for semi-programmed instructional course of elementary German, developed pursuant to a contract with the Defense Language Institute, Washington, D.C., and on a paper presented at the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York, N.Y., 1969. (RS)

Paper presented at the 1972 TESOL Conference in Washington, D.C. (DD)

Discusses shifting the focus from teaching and teacher to learning and student in language instruction. (DD)

Discusses the effect of sentence structure on the reading acquistition process of beginning readers. (RB)