Proposes a method, based on dependency theory, for teaching reading in the foreign language classroom. Examples are provided for English, German, French, and Norwegian. (AM)

Concern regarding the prevalence in primary school teachers of poor attitudes towards and low achievement in mathematics has received some empirical support. But the common assumptions (1) that attitudes towards, and achievement in, mathematics are substantially related, and (2) that teachers' attitudes and achievement in mathematics affect…

A semantic differential was used to measure the affective responses of vocationally committed male students in medicine, business, and engineering to occupational concepts representing the fields of medicine, business, engineering, the clergy, and law enforcement. It was found that the groups differed significantly in their affective responses to…

After dropouts were categorized into five "types" on the basis of their acceptance or rejection of cultural goals associated with university attendance and the institutionalized means of attaining those goals, it was found that different types of dropouts experienced dissatisfaction with different aspects of the institutional environment according…

An attempt to show that a threshold level would furnish conditions for a renewed methodology and greater student creativity. The acquisition of communicative competence would be constructed around two types of activities: analysis of the conditions of speech production and systematization of two levels of grammar. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

A program for teaching relational vocabulary in classroom settings has three receptive steps for identifying the target word and three expressive steps for using the target word. These methods focus on the systematic modification of both example presentation (including non-defining characteristics and situational distractions) and response…

Analysis of form-oriented and content-oriented lexical errors made by advanced German learners of English covers: theoretical aspects of form-orientation; a taxonomy of form-oriented approximations; content-oriented approximations; traditional concepts (of semantic organization); empirical evidence; and strategies for second language learning. (CB)

Supports the claim that aspect in English and written Arabic is a function of a variety of sentential elements including verb form, verb class, and adverbials. The two languages are basically similar in regard to two universal aspectual distinctions: syntactic categories and semantic categories. (TR)

A case study is presented in which a language impaired three-year-old used suprasegmental features to distinguish singular and plural forms in spontaneous speech. Acoustic analyses revealed that the suprasegmentals included various duration, fundamental frequency, and intensity parameters. Phonological, morphological, and psycholinguistic factors…

A vocabulary instruction program for intermediate grades is described. The program improves comprehension through use of such features as multiple exposures to words in various contexts and engaging students in active thinking about word meanings. This method of instruction is compared with instruction that offers only definitional information.…

Considers previous research and data regarding the relative frequencies of a wide variety of lexical items expressing doubt and certainty in written and spoken corpuses and uses the data to evaluate the adequacy of some well-known English as a second language textbooks. (Author/CB)

Explores the concept of ambiity in semantic relationships, and discusses several causes of relational ambiguity, including differing world views, subtext construction, and selective focusing. Asserts that while most instances of relational ambiguity do not impair text comprehension, readers should be aware of possible ambiguities. (MM)

Investigates the role of intraverbal learning (a process through which semantic knowledge is acquired from purely linguistic information) in preschool children's acquisition of semantic concepts. Shows that the relative effectiveness of pictorial and intraverbal information depends on the child's age, the type of information supplied, and the…

Three frequently used response formats are compared via analysis of covariance structures. The cumulative results based on four data sets provided evidence inconsistent with previous research suggesting that these formats are interchangeable. The semantic-differential format is most preferred while in most cases the Stapel format is least…

Describes the presence of a phonological selection strategy and consonant harmony rule in one child's developing phonological system. Evidence suggests that this constant harmony constraint operated across morpheme boundaries, causing a delay in the onset of two-word utterances and influencing the selection of words that could occur in word…