Examination of the simplified characters adopted in the People's Republic of China shows that all such characters have been created based on phonetic, graphic or semantic principles. This paper discusses phonetic simplification and lists characters followed by their simpler forms. (CHK)

This article discusses the orthographic problems of representing Slavic surnames in Spanish, and provides examples from Russian. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

This study attempted to determine the overlap between two word lists, one derived from written sources (The Great Atlantic and Pacific Sight Word List) and one constructed from oral language (Newman-Bailey List). It is suggested that differences between children's spoken words and the words in school texts may be more fancied than factual.…

Report on an experiment at the University of Maryland. (DD)

Discusses the idea of using graffiti as a technique for teaching a poetry course and improving classroom communication. (RB)

Part 13 of a continuing series. (SK)

Supports the contention that every teacher is a teacher of English because every teacher is a teacher in English.'' (Author/RB)

Few children could segment both speech and print conventionally but more could identify the number of letter groups corresponding to their own unconventional segmentation of speech. (Authors)