English language learners may bring linguistic knowledge in the area of cognates to their learning of new English words, but they also will have special vocabulary learning needs that English speakers will not. They need to learn basic, survival words that English speakers begin school knowing, words such as house, school, walk, and eat. They also…

This textbook is part one of an arithmetic course. It provides systematic drill on oral and written exercises, and review and test questions. Attention is invited to the properties of numbers, greatest common divisor, fractions, decimals, compound numbers, business arithmetic, ratio and proportion, alligation, and square and cube root, with the…

Presents a sequence for teaching letters based on graphic features; initial and final frequency; the order children learn pronunciation; the ease they can learn to copy, write, and name letters; and phonological differences among sounds letters represent. (TO)

Significant correlations, especially between the black and white groups, and black and Hispanic groups, indicate that all groups show similar types of non-standard English usage and generally with the same frequency. (Author)

Classical Japanese refers to the language used from the Nara Period to the Edo Period; suggests using classical expressions which have been retained in Modern Japanese as a familiar point of departure for learning the classical language. (DD)

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, November 1971, Chicago, Illinois. (DD)

Special issue on orthography. (DD)

Reviews several models for communicating ideas accurately, attempts to define accuracy, and describes some new ways accuracy can be measured. (Author/RB)

Reviews recent research about the use of passive verbs and suggests they are useful constructions for writers of all ages. (Author/RB)

Special issue devoted to research and the teaching of French in the elementary school. (VM)