This paper discusses the growth of the field of psycholinguistics, what its practitioners have discovered concerning first language acquisition and the implications of these new theories and discoveries for the teaching of English. The author contends that in (English) language instruction, teachers have failed to consider what the child already…

This article discusses a student project which helps ELT (English Language Teaching) students develop their grammatical awareness, as well as linguistic competence and performance at upper-intermediate or advanced levels. Encouraging students to carry out research on English grammar, collecting data, evaluating structures of language in use,…

This research investigated the nature of play activities and the social engagement of young children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in inclusive early childhood settings. Twelve focus children with a diagnosis of ASD participated in the research. These children were enrolled in regular early childhood education programs with typically…

Report on a panel of educators discussing the needs of students in the area of writing mechanics. (GB)

Infants were able to discriminate between bah" and gah" syllables, indicating that linguistic-perceptual capacities are present during early life. (WY)

By utilizing basic sentences to which free modifiers can be added to suit individual student's viewpoints, the teaching of language skills can be improved and made more pleasant. (RA)

The urgency of solving reading problems is stressed by the correlation of reading disability with general academic failure. (NH)

The relationship between children's concepts of life and their judgments and revisions of sentences with violations of animacy restrictions was examined. (Author/MP)

Investigates the effects of implicit linguistic information on the conversational responses of preschool children. Following a conversation in which the experimenter's remarks were intended to implicitly focus a child's attention on either an action or an object portrayed in a picture, subjects were asked to describe the picture. (JMB)

Among 128 girls attending a private day school in Australia, it was found that changes in semantic aspects of language which occur at the formal operational stage appear to be related to whether a child is classified at the formal operational level on a pendulum problem. (RH)

Research on dyslexia has focused on the phonological level of linguistic analysis. Here we extend the investigation of the linguistic competence of individuals with dyslexia to the morphological level of linguistic analysis. We examine whether adult Hebrew readers with dyslexia extract and represent morphemic units similarly to normal readers.…

This article investigates from an acquisitional approach the development of pragmatic competence by novice learners of second language (L2) Spanish. Specifically, it examines the acquisition of various strategies (e.g., head acts, use of softeners, formality marking, and hearer-oriented directives) to realize Spanish directives. A quantitative and…

Contrary to the assumption that jobs for language specialists are few and limited in scope, there are jobs for people with language skills, but as a supplement to other technical, business, or professional skills. (Author)

Two approaches to translation, J. C. Catford's intuitive approach and Eugene Nida's analytic approach, are examined and criticized. A suggestion is made for testing translation validity. (SC)

Attempts to answer the questions "why study Saussure?" and "how?" through an historical analysis of Saussure's work, based on the "langue/parole" distinction. (AM)