This article presents an output-printed, lexically-based communicative teaching method. Specially designed to impart spontaneous speaking abilities for special students, it is a possible solution to broader problems of foreign language teaching. It is based on the assumption that acquisition-sequence is crucial to successful classroom study, but…

This twelfth annual review of research discusses 177 studies in elementary language arts, the majority dealing with reading instruction. (RB)

Concludes that both average and superior students know their language, standard English predominated in the speech of all subgroups, and teachers should not have different expectations for males than they do for females. (RB)

Critical review and discussion of John Macnamara's "Nurseries, Streets and Classrooms," Modern Language Journal, v57 n5-6 p250-4 Sep-Oct 1973. (RL)

Discusses the misuse of language by business, military, and political interests, suggesting that teachers must lead the fight against unsound logic and corrupted language as presented to the public through the mass media. (RB)

Slightly revised version of a lecture ( Zur grammatischen Beschreibung kommunikativer Elemente in Sprechakten'' Y On Grammatical Description of Communicative Elements in Speech''I) presented in Saarbrucken, West Germany, November 10, 1972. (DD)

The author cites facts about the deaf population, acoustics, and physiology to support her contention that total use of residual hearing in deaf persons should begin as early as possible and should be related to speech. (GW)

Paper, together with a presentation of audiovisual materials, read at the Second International Congress for Applied Linguistics at Cambridge, England, in 1961. (DS)