Discusses the use of video display terminals in a newswriting course when there is not enough equipment to go around, and presents ways to use the terminal to improve students' grammar. (HOD)

The distinction between teaching the grammatical system in a simplified form and teaching the ways to use it is applied to teaching scientific writing in English. The specific language features referred to are differences in meaning resulting from grammatical choices and appropriateness of grammatical alternatives in a specific context.…

A procedure called "contrast training" is described as a method to overcome the generalization problem by contrasting sentences so that young language handicapped learners can learn to recognize which parts of a sentence occur regardless of the presence or absence of the target form. (Author/SW)

Questions the relevance of the traditional structural/grammatical approach to Russian course design. Suggests instead a functional notional approach and provides an overview of its rationale and principles. (EKN)

Discusses using structure drills in the foreign language classroom including use of same grammatical structure with slight variation, notional/functional drills, and situational dialogs. Suggests necessity of looking more closely at techniques in order to better understand teaching operation. (Author/BK)

Fourteen teachers present their views on the things that make English instruction difficult and the things that should be most important in English instruction during the 1980s, including curriculum design, writing instruction, student attitudes, teacher burnout, and grammar instruction. (RL)

Contains five articles titled: "How to Fill an Application,""How to Utilize Outdated Documents,""Old and New (1 & 2)," and "Discovering the Future." (MES)

Describes a method for teaching writing in which a series of passages are rewritten by the student, altered by progressively difficult transformations and manipulations, as an alternative to grammar instruction. (HTH)

Reports a preliminary investigation into the pitch correlates of politeness formulae produced by English and Japanese informants of both sexes. Because of differences in sociosemiotic function of pitch, Japanese females' pitch is more differentiated from the Japanese male pitch than is that of the English female from the English male. (Author/PJM)

Reports on one of a series of sociolinguistic studies of the speech of children of foreign workers in Berlin, "Gastarbeiterdeutsch," addressing the question of potential creolization. The paper has three sections: (1) a social and linguistic background of "Gastarbeiterdeutsch"; (2) the study methodology; and (3) results of the…

Describes a method of using index cards to teach both vocabulary and grammar. The cards have a question on one side and an answer on the other, providing the student with immediate reinforcement. Such a method provides an inexpensive alternative to computer assisted instruction. Sample exercises and index cards are given. (PJM)

Analyzes the uses of the negation "ne" in a variety of contexts ranging from literary to standard spoken usage. Focuses especially on the semantic implications of certain uses of the negation in order to illustrate the notion of "visee" (aim) or underlying global meaning. (MES)

Presents examples of interference phenomena, lexical, grammatical, and orthographic, which occurred in the translation section of examinations given to prospective teachers of English in German university-preparatory high schools. The elements of error are analyzed, and corrected versions are supplied. (IFS/WGA)

Analyses the syntactical, semantic, and stylistic characteristics of English passive constructions and stresses the frequency of their occurrence in scientific and technical English. Recommends that for adequate mastery of this special purpose dialect, teachers make students consciously aware of these grammatical structures and of their usage.…

Described is a fourth-grade classroom teacher's approach to studying English grammar. She adopts a surgical approach to analyzing grammar, with students acting the part of surgeons. For example, an adjectomy is the removal of adjectives from a sentence. (KC)