A discussion of how one perceive YsI form versus formlessness in discourse." (Author/RD)

Research supported in part by a grant from the Public Health Research Center. (DS)

Bambara is the language spoken in the Bamako region, Republic of Mali. (DS)

Six brief articles discuss these aspects of language instruction: contrasting the imperative "let" with other imperative forms; distinguishing between perfect and nonperfect tenses in English; the various functions a question can perform; use of humor to illustrate language quirks; learning appropriate uses of count versus noncount nouns; and…

It is proposed that the concepts of location and goal are helpful instructional tools in Russian, encouraging competence and discouraging incorrect analyses of sentence structure. Minor reorganization of conventional instructional materials and addition of a few sentences for discussion would be of significant assistance in student understanding.…

The pronunciation of final -s clusters is not uniformly treated by dictionaries, phoneticians, and writers of ESL texts. Four reasons for treating the pairs of clusters as homophonous in ESL instruction are: linguistic observation, linguistic patterning, linguistic history, and linguistic and pedagogical simplicity. This explicit treatment may…

The relationship between knowledge and reasoning was explored through 12 males' and 12 females' (aged 12, 15, and adult) solutions to written syllogisms containing four conjunctions, and evaluations of single sentences for their pragmatic content. The relationship between comprehension of pragmatic uncertainty and detection of uncertain…

A short survey of the classifications of Russian verbs from the fields of linguistics and language teaching is presented, and a classification useful for language teaching based on linguistic principles is developed. The classification is demonstrated using 1,400 verbs and 4,000 frequently used words in language teaching. (SW)

Discusses secondary stress in various types of words (e.g., in certain parts of speech, with certain spelling patterns, etc.) and in various kinds of sentences and communicative situations. (KM)