Good and poor readers, 15- and 16-year-olds and adult literacy students, were compared in their ability to produce graphemic representations for four specific phonemes. Good readers were significantly better than poor readers at representing the critical phonemes, but intentional ambiguity had a similar effect on all. (MSE)

In conversations in social settings, few nonnative speaker errors were corrected by native speakers. Discourse and vocabulary errors were corrected more frequently than errors in syntax and omission, suggesting that treatment of vocabulary in the classroom be reexamined and serious consideration be given to teaching properties of English…

It is argued that dictation is a neglected technique for second-language training. Students' error patterns at three levels are presented to show how the technique can be used effectively for both teaching and testing, and to develop integrative skills and accuracy in both listening and writing. (Author/MSE)

Investigation of the relationship between systematic computational errors and achievement among native Indian children indicated a significant relationship between error type and achievement in multiplication but not in addition or subtraction. In multiplication, high achievers tended to make nonsystematic errors; low achievers tended to make…

Three experiments involved imagining the result of either an array rotating relative to a fixed viewer or a viewer rotating relative to a fixed array. The data suggested that adults use literal, concrete strategies to solve these problems. (Author/PN)