Tax instructions suffer from vocabulary and concept loads, but make a useful teaching tool. (Author)

This paper attempts to synthesize how biological-nativist theories emerged as a response to logical and empirical flaws in behaviorist learning theories, and how in turn, recent research findings in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience and Connectionist models of language acquisition are questioning the present innatist framework. As a result of…

Written from a social interaction perspective, this digest provides an overview of children's language development in the first five years of life. Viewing language learning as both a social and a developmental process, the digest's three sections outline the process of language development in the first year, the second and third year, and in the…

Presents a technique for improving pupils' language by studying idioms. (RB)

Rejects the arguments for spelling reform, concluding that English spelling follows a system which is about as nearly phonetic as it needs to be. (RB)

Presents a sample of new words and collocations gathered in the last ten years by one dictionary staff from reading a balanced sampling of material published during the period. (TO)

Suggests using drama as a technique for improving reading comprehension, reading skills, and language abilities. (RB)

Presents nine techniques for improving students' language abilities. (RB)

Critical evaluation of Schlesinger's theory of language acquisition as expounded in Production of Utterances and Language Acquisition'' in The Ontogenesis of Grammar'', p63-101, New York: Academic Press, 1971. (RS)

The thesis of this paper is that education of deaf children and youth has generally failed to accomplish its purpose of preparation for successful life adjustment. (Author)

Three moderately to severely retarded children who demonstrated a limited expressive noun vocabulary were placed in a language program to be trained to produce the basic grammatical relations (subject-verb-object responses). (Author)