This selective bibliography lists 4 books and 14 journal articles dealing with Portuguese-English contrastive studies. The entries range in date from 1948 to 1972 with the majority published since 1965. The books cited are Brazilian or European publications and the articles appeared in well-known Brazilian or American pedagogical language…

This selective bibliography list 9 books and articles and 8 theses dealing with Persian-English contrastive studies. The entries range in date from 1951 to 1971 with the majority published since 1965. The theses were prepared mostly in Persian or American universities, and the articles appeared in well-known American pedagogical language journals.…

This selective bibliography lists 10 books and articles dealing with Czech-English contrastive studies and 2 articles on general Slavic studies. The entries range in date from 1959 to 1972 with the majority published since 1965. The books cited are European or American publications, and the articles appeared in well-known European or American…

This is a bibliography of American doctoral dissertations in linguistics completed between 1965 and 1967. It is an update of Phillip R. Rutherford's "Bibliography of American Doctoral Dissertations," which covered the years 1900-1964 and was published by the Center for Applied Linguistics in 1968. There are 614 entries in the present bibliography,…

This annotated bibliography lists books useful for teaching or learning English as a second language. Most of the books were published since 1965, and the majority were published in England. Prices are listed. The contents include sections on reference books and dictionaries; linguistics; grammar of English; vocabulary; language learning and…

This report in the National Education Association's "Developments in Classroom Instruction" series presents seven detailed descriptions of models for elementary-level classroom learning centers. It presents lists of materials, suggestions for the placement of equipment, study plans, and evaluation guides for learning centers in a variety of…

The purpose of this text is to teach present-day spoken Urdu to foreigners who need the language for their everyday activities. While drawing from the results of modern linguistic science, an attempt has been made to approach the problem of learning Urdu in a practical way. The "spiral approach" is used. After the sounds of Urdu are introduced in…

Sometimes descriptions of known facts about a language fail to be explanatory in a satisfying way, because they ignore parallelisms in related languages, including chronologically earlier stages of the same language. This article examines several Romance languages and dialects in terms of similarities in morphological evolutionary development.…

This study examines the usage of the auxiliaries "avoir" and "etre" in the passe compose and pluperfect. The study is primarily based on a sample of French written by agroup of grade 9 Franco-Ontarian pupils from the Sudbury region. The students' written French is shown to include a high proportion of cases where intransitive…

This book contains 17 chapters dealing with the development of language skills at the elementary level: "The Language Arts, Language, and Linguistics,""Dialect, Grammar, and Usage: Some Considerations,""Planning for Instruction in the Language Arts,""Language Learning and Beginning Language Arts Instruction,""Instructional Attention to…

This paper proposes that some but not all "I" causatives in Korean are analyzable, and argues that case markers in Korean are not merely surface phenomena, but are semantically and syntactically significant. The types of Korean causatives are introduced, as well as the major problems involved in their analysis. Previous generative works…

The chief purposes of this book are the illustration of an analytical approach to tone languages, a methodology based upon recent linguistic advance, and the presentation of firsthand data on Mixteco and Mazateco, languages which represent two very different structural arrangements of linguistic tone. Part 1 describes some of the types of…

This course is designed to enable students to function in other classes in the curriculum, especially history, science, and math. Emphasis is on mastery of the use of the simple past tense in questions, answers, and negative and affirmative statements--in contrast to the present indefinite used in generalizations. Stress is placed on the…

This course concerns several grammatical points as well as the cultural topic of holidays. The language aspect emphasizes the use of dependent clauses, some irregular verbs, comparison of adjectives and adverbs, and intonational variations. Certain library skills, such as using the card catalog and appropriate reference books, are also practiced.…

This curriculum guide is designed for a course based on the text "ALM Russian," second edition, units 11, 12, and 13. The course focuses on the listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills as well as on cultural background material. Particular emphasis is placed on developing the student's knowledge of grammar. The guide includes a…