Expanded version of an address presented at a conference in Regensburg and at the Universities of Erlangen and Marburg. (WB)

Explains the need for a well structured unit on dialectology in high school English classes; a paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers on English (59th, Washington, D.C., November 28, 1969). (SW)

This article aims to outline the major development of psychological and linguistic theory, focusing upon those underlying features which have particular relevance in foreign-language instruction, and to suggest the direction which emerging strategies will take." (FB)

Advocates three emphases to the precollege study of English as a language: language general, grammar, and usage rule;" a paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (59th, Washington, D.C., November 28, 1969). (RD)

Describes and suggests the significance of syntactic imagery, poetic effects created through expressive grammatical structures. (MM)

Compares discourse in several different media and finds that strict sequentiality is not a universal feature of discourse. Concludes that discourse in nonreal time media, such as electronic message systems, has multiple threads. (FL)

Reports on a classroom experiment testing the hypothesis that the distance across which readers must integrate information is a factor in reading comprehension. Concludes that secondary school students found it more difficult to resolve semantic relationships beyond the sentence than those within the sentence. (FL)

Describes a computer-aided instruction program developed at Sheffield City Polytechnic, England, which teaches students to analyze simple sentences into their constituents and to draw tree diagrams representing their structures. Program strategy, control and operation of the programs, and evaluation are discussed. Three references and illustrative…