A broader perspective of student errors made in French sees them as departures from the scholarly norm rather than simply mistakes. Five examples are provided to help the teacher conceptualize and generalize this approach. (MSE)

German offers a good example of how syntax meets the discursive needs of speakers/hearers and writers/readers. A pedagogic grammar should put the emphasis on the ways the foreign language conceptualizes reality and on the syntactic realization of those concepts for construction of discourse. (Author/MSE)

Gives some examples of internal contradictions in the use of the Spanish subjunctive. Details these contradictions to show there is only a tenuous relationship between surface forms and semantic features and categories. (EKN)

In the first experiment, the imitative skills of four-year-olds were assessed as a function of sentence comprehension and delayed imitation. The second experiment examined the relationship between the Carrow Elicited Language Inventory (CELI) and Developmental Sentence Scoring under three imitative conditions: zero-, three-, and five-second…

Discusses James Moffett's pedagogical theory of discourse in relation to teaching college French courses at the intermediate level, using drama as basis of language program with activities involving authentic discourse. (Author/BK)

Discusses use of slides in second-language class and gives examples of teaching identification, abstract nouns, position and agreement of adjectives, personal pronouns, prepositions, objects of destination, and verbs. Suggests use of two slide projectors to teach sentence patterns that state a relationship between two entities. (BK)

This experiment investigated whether three- and four-year-old children show systematic preferences for animate or inanimate nouns to function as actors and objects of simple active and passive voice sentences. The children had to choose from several toys a suitable referent for a nonsense word used in a sentence. (Author)

Examines cliches, vogue words, redundancies, ungrammatical constructions and lapses in style occurring in various Canadian newspapers. (HTH)

Describes and explains interrelationship among nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and determiners making up the Spanish determiner and adjective phrase. (BK)

Presents a case for eliminating "whom" from standard English usage, with examples of why the use of "whom" brings not only needless worry but overzealousness in its applications. (RL)

In teaching the tense-aspect system of English to speakers of Moroccan Arabic (MA), the teacher should take into account the reinterpretation of MA categories into English ones, the learning of new categories, the redistribution of categories, and the learning of contrasts existing in English but underdifferentiated in MA. (JB)

The article describes a method for assessing children's production of certain grammatical structures, including noun and verb markers, pronouns, negative forms, and interrogative inversion. (Author)

Notes the parallels between N. Chomsky and M. Halle's "The Sound Pattern of English" and A. N. Whitehead and B. Russell's "Principia Mathematica." Uses these parallels to distinguish "formalist" v "substance-based" generative phonology. Suggests that a modification of the "formalist" program is ultimately more satisfactory than the…

Described is a grammar program, "The Drama of Grammar," which engages students in exploring language through active participation in numerous activities. It is based on the recognition that children already know and use the language system, and builds on that knowledge. (KC)

Discusses the article "'Both' v 'The Two,"' by Wulf Praeger in "Englisch," 1977, giving additional examples. A brief position statement by Praeger is added. (IFS/WGA)