Presidential address delivered at the Tenth Annual General Meeting of the Audio-Visual Language Association held December 28, 1971, at the University of Nottingham, England. (DS)

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)

Special issue on translation. (VM)

Summarizes research findings on achievement and attitudes in foreign language learning appearing in Communicative Competence: An Experiment in Foreign Language Teaching'', published by The Center for Curriculum Development, Philadelphia, Pa., 1972. (DS)

Tests on children between five and nine led to the conclusion that children's ability to recognize synonymous structures is progressively developed over a period of years and that there is a scale of difficulty involved. Paper presented at the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs Annual Conference, May 1969. (FWB)

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)

Author focuses on both comparative studies and developmental sociolinguistics and suggests some research problems, with particular attention to social dialects. (Author/MB)