Revised version of a paper presented at Conference on Comparative Literature (4th, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, April 16-17, 1970). (Editor/RD)

Describes several effective techniques for teaching students about the phonetic alphabet and about such aspects of speech as slang, jargon, colloquialisms, and regional dialects. (DD)

Special issue devoted to works and criticisms of Benito Perez Galdos on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Spanish author's death. First time that Hispania" has dedicated an entire issue to one author. (DS)

This volume of the Carnegie Series in English is entitled "A Modern Miscellany". (DS)

Focuses upon the importance of understanding the consequences of the "myth, masking, and mode" in guiding the language development of black disadvantaged children; based upon a paper presented before the Niagara Linguistic Frontier. (RD)

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Los Angeles, California, February, 1969, and supported by the U.S. Office of Education which demonstrates the potential value of instructing children to understand certain linguistic forms involved in the communication of relationships. (author)

Contrary to David Olson's claim that authority is conveyed by textbook language, it is mainly the school context of textbooks that establishes their authority--and that of teachers--in students' minds. The curriculum is not in the text but in the social rules reflected by school organization and teachers' authority. (JW)

Although Luke, de Castell, and Luke rightly notice the role of social structure in the authority of the textbook, the pattern of social authority outside the school is primarily reflected in the text itself. The task for writers, then, is to clarify the grounds for their authoritative claims. (JM)