Instructional objectives of the Dade County Public Schools Quinmester Program in French for use with "Le Francais Moderne: Part 1" focus on the development of vocabulary and mastery of grammatical structures. The formation of the passe compose with "avoir," object pronouns, the present tense of regular "-ir" verbs,…

This study presents an analysis of the speech of twenty-five informants, who were born in eastern Kentucky or southern West Virginia. Six of them were interviewed in Kentucky, where they still live; the others now live in Chicago, in an area known as Uptown. The phonological data is described in terms similar to the Chomsky-Halle feature analysis…

The competencies established for the language arts program for kindergarten through sixth grade in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, are listed in this document, which indicates grade levels for introducing particular skills, developing skills, and mastering skills. Tests to assist teachers in measuring students' progress in listening comprehension,…

These newsletters, produced during the first year of activity of a special committee of the National Council of Teachers of English, focus on the back-to-the-basics movement as it affects the teaching of English. The first newsletter describes the establishment of SLATE as an action wing of the council. The other seven deal in turn with specific…

Learning to read is a qualitatively different process from learning to compute, in that each student must discover his own ways of finding meanings. (JH)

Computer-based multidimensional scaling techniques are used to determine the dimensionality of grammatical variation in three large sets of data: Ross' (1973) Noun Phrase and fake Noun Phrase data; Sankoff's (1974) complementizer "que"-deletion (Montreal French) data; and Cedergren's (1973) syllable-final S-reduction (Panamanian Spanish) data. (DB)

Described is the Developmental Assessment of Spanish Grammar, an analysis procedure designed to evaluate the language of American Spanish-speaking children with deficient grammatical skills and to serve as a model for structuring language remediation. (Author/SB)

Reports on a 6th grade English (as a second language) grammar class, introducing formation of questions with "to do," following with written use of a worksheet. Success of the class hour is attributed to use of a blackboard picture and active student participation. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

College English departments displayed little agreement about the importance of grammar or about the type of grammar students should learn. (JH)

Argues that literature should have a place in the foreign language classroom even at the beginning level. It aids in clarifying vocabulary, grammatical structures and certain cultural idiosyncracies. (Text is in German.) (TL)

Seventy-five deaf students (9-16 years old) responded to items from P. Menyuk's Test of Grammatical Competence in an investigation of the degree to which deaf individuals draw on internalized grammatical rules and/or memory, and the effect of language teaching method, sex, and age on written English language ability. (Author/SBH)

Presents hypotheses about the effects of rules of sound change on the development of part of the verb inflectional system of Proto-Nahuatl. (AM)

Presents humanistic behavioral objectives for teaching about semantics, grammar, dialects, lexicography, body language, foreign languages, and the history of English. (DD)

Reports on an experiment designed to compare the linguistic ability of English-speaking students of French to that of native French-speaking students, through sentence repetition, in order to draw some conclusions regarding approximative grammars. (AM)