Failure to progress on the language proficiency scale is often due to lack of linguistic accuracy. Even motivated students are sometimes unable to improve proficiency ratings beyond a particular level. Pedagogical factors contributing to this problem include: focus on form and meaning at the same time; fossilization; overuse of communicative…

This paper encourages the use of Total Quality Management (TQM) tactics and other strategies as a practical means of fostering a quality culture in institutional research offices of higher education institutions. In particular, four approaches are advocated for understanding and minimizing errors: (1) use of TQM tactical tools to enhance work…

Designed to analyze systematically the relative effects of different types of oral reading errors on comprehension, this instrument consists of a basic set (each with an easy and a hard version) of six stories. Every story is transformed so that it contains simulated errors of a particular type: (1) correct, (2) semantically related visually…

Productive errors in the Spanish of 3 Spanish-speaking children and 115 adults learning Spanish as a second language are analyzed. The errors are organized into three categories--lexical, morphological, and syntactic--and each category is further divided according to the type of cognitive error-processing strategy shown: simplification, reduction…

In a two-year study, frequencies and descriptions of systematic errors in four algorithms in arithmetic were studied in regular and special education classrooms. (Author/SD)

Refers to important articles from the 1973-74 volume of the Czechoslovak journal "Rusky jazyk." The linguistic portion deals with questions of conversational speech and stylistics. Relevant to teaching Russian are articles on FL teaching installations, factors leading to failure in language learning, and categorizing language errors.…

This article explores the use of error analysis in foreign language instruction. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

This article discusses seven stages of reality therapy and describes the following mistakes counselors make as they try to execute the seven steps: insufficient involvement between counselor and client; establishing too vague a plan; forcing a plan on the client; and proceeding too quickly to client commitment to the plan. (SE)

This article discusses the importance of understanding the language learning process for more effective teaching. Language learning is seen as no different from other cognitive processes, and is considered a creative activity. Variables that determine the nature of language learning are discussed. (CLK)

Deals with the provisional grammar known as Learner's Language that foreign language learners develop in the learning process. Data derived from observing Learner's Language have two major implications for foreign language teaching: the reordering of learning sequences, and the need for providing a full communicative context throughout the…

Supports and expands upon S. P. Corder's theory that all the utterances of a language learner are well-formed and appropriate. (PMP)

Valuable insights into the reading process can be gained by analyzing children's reading miscues and by encouring children to use their linguistic knowledge when reading. (JH)

"Fronting", that is, placing direct and indirect objects at the beginning of the sentence, is a typical characteristic of the "school English" of German pupils. The linguistic analysis of the learning problem is supplemented by pedagogic and methodological considerations. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

A study of the holistic evaluation of writing compared holistic rating and the rating for "conformity to correct prose" technique, a technique based on error counting, of five essays representing five ability levels. The essays were produced in a college English-as-a-Second-Language program. The two scoring methods produced the same ranking of…