Thirty undergraduate students were asked to read and recall information presented in one of two parallel expository passages about the professional athlete. These passages differed only in their use of the "he" or "she" generic referent. The passages were parsed into 19 idea units, and 5 target words in each conveying the…

Examines the effect of repatterning representative passages from a tenth grade social studies text upon the average sophomore's comprehension. (RB)

These papers grew out of a desire to follow up recommendations made in 1972 by an internal Office of Education Task Force. The Task Force report documented discrimination against women throughout the nation's education system and made 33 recommendations for change in U.S. Office of Education practices. A follow-up report in 1975 found that little…

For research purposes, an individual's education and educational attainment, and his or her ethnic identity, are usually taken to represent static and independent characteristics of the person. However, the processes which lead to categorizations of educational attainment and ethnic identity are not static and are probably not independent. In this…

A discussion of the use of the imperfect tense in French, aimed primarily at speakers of English and German. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Presents evidence for the idea that when morphemes are borrowed from a socially dominant language into a pidgin, and extended in usage as in a creole, the major factor determining the direction of such extension is the linguistic background of the speakers of languages other than the dominant one. (Author/CLK)

Discusses language references pertaining to anatomy and calls them "part of" as opposed to "kind of" references. When speaking about anatomy the relationship is always one of parts to the whole, hence, "part of". Classifications are set up distinguishing "part of" from "kind of" relations and contrasts are made between speakers of English, Saxon,…

Discusses problems of terminology in modern-day French-English translation, and means by which translator skills can keep up with linguistic evolution. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Summary of author's doctoral dissertation, "Syntactic and Semantic Elements of Students' Oral and Written Discourse: Implications for Teaching Composition, Stanford Univ., 1967.