Recognition criteria refer to those features which enable the analyst to recognize the item he attempts to ascertain through his elicitation procedure. (DD)

Discusses the teacher's obligation to enlighten the student adequately as to all interrelating features (e.g., linguistic, psychological, and cultural factors) attached to specific linguistic categories (e.g., presenting all of the moods and tenses of the verb be''). (DD)

Outlines the influence of American English on British English, especially as it applies to the forming and usage of word compounds. (DS)

Research was designed to explore the basis of children's associations in matching and directed association tasks. (Author)

The use of second language students' existing understanding of grammatical forms in their native language for second language instruction is examined, and the importance of knowing when to replace grammatical analysis with use of the target language is discussed. A slow process of discovering appropriate teaching techniques is foreseen. (MSE)

Proposes a method of analyzing the spontaneous speech of severely agrammatic patients. The method employed involves the description and analysis of a male patient's video-recorded conversation with a speech therapist. Preliminary conclusions indicate the presence of some linguistic mechanisms underlying normal syntactic processing. (32 references)…

Describes the acquisition, frequency, and function of the English articles ("a,""the," and "O"--the zero article). Explains the two types of zero article (zero and null), and shows how these occur in alternation with "a" and "the." Also provides a framework for the presentation of the articles in the classroom at the beginning, intermediate, and…

Examines through a text analysis of spoken and written discourse the meaning and function of the double genitive (DG) in English in comparison to the inflected preposed genitive. The study shows the DG to possess unique and specific pragmatic functions not adequately described for nonnative students. (22 references) (Author/CK)

Reports research examining the extent to which English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) university students' knowledge of a word can be assumed to indicate knowledge of other members of the word's family. Specifically looked at the ability of 106 graduate and undergraduate students to produce appropriate derivative forms in the four major word classes.…