Discusses the education of Indian children (Navajo) in kindergarten who learn in a bilingual-bicultural program. Their instruction begins in Navajo, with English taught as a second language. (Author/RK)

Article presents positive reasons for studying a foreign language and describes one possible outline for developing a program. (Author/RK)

The goal of instruction in standard spoken usage should not be to modify the student's language behavior by rejecting his nonstandard dialect, but to work with him to expand his competencies on the base of his present linguistic competence. (JM)

An exposition and refutation of two writers taken as representative of those accusing linguists who support the teaching of Standard English as a second language of covert racism. (JM)

Paper Presented at the TESOL Convention, March 1, 1972, in Washington, D.C. (VM)

Argues for language tests based on a view of linguistic competence broad enough to recognize the importance of social-psychological factors in the use of language. Paper prepared for a conference on language testing at Idyllwild, California, November 7-8, 1968. (FWB)

Reply to a paper entitled "Implications of Recent Psycholinguistic Developments for the Teaching of a Second Language, by Leon A. Jakobovits, which appeared in "Language Learning, volume 18, number 1 and 2, June 1968. (DS)

Six foreign students were taught Latin by the direct method at Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, in an experiment to improve rapid reading mastery. (DS)

Test variables which discriminated among the native English speaking children and the children who spoke Spanish or Navajo natively were those tasks which involved knowledge of the linguistic rules of English. School learning problems were the result of limited linguistic competence in English. (Author)