Maintains that linguists and educators sincerely interested in black education should concentrate on devising a performance instrument to measure the degree of command of the style of any given Black English speaker rather than on establishing linguistic remediation programs to correct a non-existent remediation. (Author)

The study revealed that educational systems have not been responsive to the needs of individuals in general, and of minority groups in particular who deviate significantly from the characteristics of the modal student for whom the curriculum is designed...'' (Author/JB)

Each speaker-hearer commands a language system that he uses unconsciously as he speaks and writes. Discovery of the rules underlying that system shows the futility of some accepted teaching practices and suggests other approaches. (Author)

Special issue devoted to the topic of standard spoken usage. (VM)

Reproduced from Jista'', Journal of the Indian Scientific Translators Association, v1 n1 Mar 1972. (VM)

Preliminary version of this paper was given at the 1968 winter meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York City, based upon work supported by the Office of Education as a Cooperative Research Project. (VM)

Examines and analyzes occurrences of the English prepositions "at, "to, "on, and "in. Concludes that these prepositions are logically connected and their functions and meanings are comprehensible from the psycho-physiological experiences of man in space. (DS)

An examination of language retention among the Mexican Americans and the factors involved in their language maintenance despite pressure from a dominant American society strongly supporting the use of the English Language. (JM)