Address delivered at the first ADFL Summer Seminar for Chairmen on June 21, 1971 at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. Discusses the situation of foreign language teaching in the United States, and the need for imaginative and inspiring teachers. (DS)

Part of an address delivered at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) on November 27, 1970, in Los Angeles, California. (DS)

Presidential address delivered at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) in Washington, D.C. in November 1969. (DS)

Evaluates the growth of social-cognitive knowledge in deaf and hearing children during the early- and middle-school years and assesses the relative importance of language in two domains of social cognition. In addition, separately examines the child's ability to evaluate the concepts of good and bad and to take another person's perspective. (RH)

Explores the impact of Quebec language planning in favor of French on self-reports of language use in cross-cultural encounters between Francophones and Anglophones in Montreal. Results indicate that discrepancies exist between respondents' self-reports of language use and their reported experience and that motivational and normative factors…

Using data from the 1979 Chicano Survey, analyzes determinants of status attainment among Mexican Americans. Finds the process of status attainment to be essentially the same for both sexes, though women experience a net handicap for current occupational attainment. Also finds that close ethnic attachment does not lower socioeconomic attainment.…

Explores the tension between the manner in which intergroup language differences are used to symbolize group membership and the manner in which they mirror and reinforce social class and power distinctions. (EKN)

Attempts to define the cultural discontinuity (between schools and students) hypothesis by distinguishing between universal, primary, and secondary discontinuities. Suggests that each of these is associated with a distinct type of school problem, and that secondary cultural discontinuities commonly affect minority students in the United States.…

A study of desired residential mobility among residents of San Francisco's Chinatown generally confirms the thesis that confinement to a first settlement enclave is due to constraints on choice, and abandonment of this area occurs with increased economic status and greater choice availability. (GC)

Examines the conversation behavior of mothers toward their children with respect to two hypotheses: that the mothers' underlying interactional intent can be inferred from patterning in their conversation and that the utterances having a directive or controlling function will show a negative relationship to those designed to elicit conversation…

In order to make a difference to people, librarians need a strong belief in the utility of reading and access to information; sensitivity to the hidden needs of people; and the determination to ensure that library/media/information services are available to all who need them and supported as a common good. (LLS)