The first 6-month supplement to "ERIC Documents on the Teaching of English: 1956-1968" (ED 029 045), this bibliography of 522 items represents a continuing effort to bring together in a single source a list of all the documents relating to English teaching which have been processed into the ERIC system. It includes documents announced in the…

These first two books prepared by the Curriculum Improvement Program in English Language Skills for Schools of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands provide detailed instructions for teaching aural and oral skills in English as a second language to Ponapean children in Grade 1. Each book consists of ten lesson units; each lesson unit consists…

These two volumes comprise Books III and IV in the Curriculum Improvement Program in English Language Skills for Schools of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands materials. See related documents AL 002 134 for a description of the Program, AL 002 135 for Books I-II, AL 002 141 for picture books for the first two volumes, and AL 002 142 for…

These two volumes comprise Books V and VI in the Curriculum Improvement Program in English Language Skills for Schools of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands materials. See related documents AL 002 134 for a description of the Program, AL 002 135-6 for Books I-IV, AL 002 141-2 for picture books for the first four volumes, and AL 002 143 for…

A paper given at a conference on statistical computation discussed teaching statistics with computers. It concluded that computer-assisted instruction is most appropriately employed in the numerical demonstration of statistical concepts, and for statistical laboratory instruction. The student thus learns simultaneously about the use of computers…

In an attack on the current oral-aural approach to teaching foreign languages in the secondary school, the author laments the loss of intellectual involvement on the part of the student in the learning process. Resultant limitations in student preparation for advanced study in literature and linguistics are observed. A set of objectives is…

This paper focuses on British English. Such rules as might be devised for specification of segment length would have to take into account, among other factors, the lenis/fortis nature of the segments at syllable margins, degree of stress, the relation between a given syllable and others in the same rhythm group, the same relations within the word,…

The purpose of this study was to review some of the criteria given by linguists for the development of language materials and to present a case for error analysis as a major criterion in the preparation of materials for the teaching of writing skills to Iranian freshman students. Chapter one reviews the major events and landmarks bearing upon the…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the symbolic languages of movement and drama in terms of their ability to stimulate and expand the oral communication of children in grade two. Included was a substudy to determine the effect of such a program upon the self-actualization of children in grade two. The oral language was studied…

This volume includes 12 of the 24 papers presented at the Third Annual California Linguistics Conference. Selections are drawn from each of the four sessions, covering semantic and lexical structure, phonology, syntax, and language in context. Each of the papers includes a bibliography, as well as diagrams, charts, and appendixes when necessary.…

This publication consists of papers presented at the meetings of two advisory groups convened at Unesco. Internationally-known consultants were invited to assist in developing a program dealing with the sociocultural and linguistics adaptation of the content and methodology of education. At one meeting, concerned with the contribution of…

This dissertation is a grammatical sketch of Colville, a Salishan language of eastern Washington. After an introductory chapter on language family, the phonology (consonants, stops, resonants, vowels) is outlined. The chapter on morphology discusses the basic intransitive nature of all roots and the production of transitive, middle, and…

This volume, the second in a series of four on the languages of Nepal, contains the following papers: "Clause Patterns in Nepaili,""Clause Patterns in Tamang," and "A Survey of Clause Patterns." For other volumes in the series, see FL 004 896, FL 004 897, and FL 004 898. (DD)

This paper constitutes the fifth chapter of the forthcoming volume "Language in Ethiopia." In an effort to better define the particular linguistic area, the author analyzes phonological and grammatical features that languages in the area have in common. A number of features have been identified as characteristic of the area, and this…

The guidelines established here are specifically for the preparation of teachers of English to speakers of other languages. The article does not present a set curriculum or recommend a series of course titles. After a brief discussion of the preparation of the American school teacher, the guidelines deal specifically with the English as a second…