Version of a paper presented at the meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, San Francisco, California, December 30, 1969. (VM)

Describes tutoring of second grade inner-city children with reading disabilities. Results suggest elimination of visual-auditory memory deficit as a component of dyslexia. The abstract nature of the phoneme is proposed as the basis for much reading disability. The syllable is suggested as an intermediate unit for use in introductory reading. (JM)

Reviews reports on efforts to improve the Communist Chinese natural environment. National campaigns for water and air pollution control, sanitation improvement, and industrial development are related to Mao Tse-tung's philosophy of frugality and comprehensive resource use. Concern is expressed regarding possible ecological consequences from…

Outlines a method for teaching Chinese character recognition which relies on the grouping of those characters with a common phonetic element that has the same modern pronunciation in all characters in which it occurs and which may thus give some ideas as to the meaning of the characters in which it occurs. Sample lessons are included. (FB)

Asserts that there is no such part of speech in Chinese as the "co-verb" and demonstrates that such forms are simply transitive verbs which, in addition to several other Chinese structures, are used to translate English sentences with prepositional phrases. (FWB)

Reviews educational and occupational status and income as indicators of improvements in the socioeconomic status of Chinese American males during the 1960s. Calls for further research on the persistent income lag between Chinese and White men. (GC)

Divides Taiwanese modals into: (1) authority, where a deep structure agent exercises authority; (2) contigency, which concerns the speaker's judgment of the possibility or logical necessity df the occurrence of an event; and (3) volition, which expresses the subject's desires. The constructions in which these modals appear are examined. (PJM)

Discusses a series of exercises designed to convince advanced Chinese language students that the careful study of classical Chinese literature is both a necessary and enjoyable part of their scholarly training. Several excerpts from Chinese literature are given. (PJM)

A lesson taught by an American teacher to Chinese students is described. The lesson was a "Silent Lesson in Mathematics" (SLIM) presentation concerning the guessing of functions. (MK)

Two unique measures of morphological awareness were orally administered to kindergarten and 2nd-grade Hong Kong Chinese children. Both tasks of morphological awareness predicted unique variance in Chinese character recognition in these children, after controlling for age, phonological awareness, speeded naming, speed of processing, and vocabulary.…

Investigates variability in interlanguage consonant cluster simplification strategies within the four factors--style, gender, proficiency, and interlocutor. Examined how these factors determine Chinese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) speakers' production of English word-initial consonant clusters. (Author/VWL)

Proposes a summarization system for multiple documents that employs named entities and other signatures to cluster news from different sources, as well as punctuation marks, linking elements, and topic chains to identify the meaningful units (MUs). Using nouns and verbs to identify similar MUs, focusing and browsing models are applied to represent…

Factors related to psychosocial adjustment of 113 adolescent immigrants to the United States from the People's Republic of China were studied. Levels of psychosocial functioning were lower for adolescents with higher family conflict, lower family organization, and higher family authoritarianism. Value orientation mediated the relationship between…

Study explored relationship between family environment and adolescent coping in Chinese sample. Chinese adolescents tended to mobilize personal resources, seek help from social resources, and adopt a philosophy of doing nothing as their major coping style when they had a positive perception of their family environment. Girls relied more on social…

Describes a personal journey in the teaching of languages other than english in the Australian tertiary context. Focuses on the approach known as independent deep learning and describes this in regard to the teaching of Modern Standard Chinese to non-Chinese speaking background learners. (Author/VWL)