Illustrates a classroom "Ninepins" game designed for review of German prepositions and the cases associated with them. Claims that, judging from tests, the game has proved to be an effective mnemonic device. Suggests repeated utilization of it, with variations, as an entertaining alternative to repetition of alphabetical lists. (MES)

The differences between Pidgin Sign English and American Sign Language in simultaneity, or the visible presence of two or more linguistic units (manual or nonmanual) co-occurring, are demonstrated. Differences are exemplified in handshape-classifier pronouns, directional verbs, co-occurring manual signs, and nonmanual behavior. (PMJ)

Analyzes a segment from the Austrian radio series "Grammar with a Smile," dealing with the future tense. Criticizes the dialog as not true to life and lacking in motivating power. Ends with suggestions for alternatives. (IFS/WGA)

A writing program that emphasizes daily writing practice, artistic as well as mechanical criticism, group work, student interests, and revision is being successfully taught in several elementary and high schools. (CJ)

Describes a module used to teach ESL students to distinguish phrases from clauses and sentences from nonsentences or fragments, thus enabling them to edit the errors of punctuation out of their writing. A chart of four grammatical units in a hierarchy (single words, groups of words, clauses, and sentences) is included. (Author/PJM)

Describes research done at the University of Liverpool with undergraduates learning beginning German to compare the effectiveness of grammar-translation and audiolingual teaching methods. Discusses lack of experimental support for the hypothesis that the learners' background in arts or science can be correlated with the comparative effectiveness…

Offers suggestions for the use of a land map in the English as a foreign language classroom. The information available has usually already been learned by the student in his native language. Maps can be used to teach, for example, comparative and superlative, the passive (is located), comprehension, and advanced grammatical work. (PJM)

Two experiments examined the nature of access, storage, and comprehension of idiomatic phrases, using a phrase classification task. Results support a lexical representation hypothesis for the processing of idioms. (Author/AM)

By comparing Russian and English on the phonological and grammatical levels, guidelines are offered for teachers of English as a second language to Russian students. (CFM)

Discusses a controversy about the presence of non-English speaking people in Chicago and reports responses to a "linguistic security test" published in the "Chicago Tribune"; concludes that language attitudes are powerful, strongly held, and seem to partake of larger social attitudes. (GT)

Compares sentence grammar with text linguistics, giving a survey of the treatment of indirect discourse in school grammars, and finding them inadequate. Recommends rules derived from text linguistics in spite of their greater complexity, because they do not hold the student to mechanical recasting of sentences. (IFS/WGA)

Presents a dice-and-board game for teaching French, designed to solidify vocabulary (dealing with shopping at a store) and to afford practice in certain grammatical structures. (IFS/WGA)

Three experiments were conducted to ascertain the effect of contextual restraints on pronoun assignment. Pronoun selection is based on integration of the context even where it is already syntactically constrained. Integration occurs during and not following the assignment of the pronoun. (PMJ)

Suggests that for improving syntactic fluency and the overall quality of compositions, exercises should be based on generative rhetoric. These exercises in which students supply the content of the sentence from a list of suggested structures are superior to sentence-combining exercises that provide the student with all the information. (PMJ)

Four hundred eighty-two articles appearing in "The French Review" between 1960 and 1979 are listed according to the following categories: culture, culture content, curriculum, Franco-American relations, grammar, history of the teaching of French in the U.S., linguistics, listening, teaching of literature, reading, speaking, teacher education,…