While an aroused public applauds the exposure of civic corruption and environmental pollution, neither the public at large nor officialdom has any concern with the corruption and pollution of language except to contribute to it. (Author)

Music, language and mathematics form the basis of existence. Keeping this in mind, teaching methods and philosophy can benefit by using this trio as guidelines for instruction. (Author/MF)

Reviews McDougal, Littell's Language of Man", and finds it to be perhaps the best language series developed for the secondary market in recent years. (Editor)

Presents a brief report of some comparative analyses of written language of primary school children of differing socio-economic levels. (Author)

Urges greater appreciation by society of the power of the English language and greater efforts by English teachers to foster such an attitude. (RD)

Presents examples of language pollution fostered by mass media which ignore distinctions in language and warns that this can weaken the general feeling for the nature of English. (MB)

The McCaig article appears in this issue, pp. 612-18. (RD)

Argues for a study of semantics as the central focus of the English curriculum. (RD)

Urges English teachers to eliminate sexist language and lists specific methods for doing so. (AEA)

Discusses grammar programs, most of which are aimed at business or technical English. Although many search for common word/phrase errors and provide statistical summaries of word usage, others are being developed which will provide a thorough contextual analysis of business English. (JN)