Advocates teaching the foreign language methods course in the target language. (DS)

Sample questionnaire included. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the ESC Conference Planning Committee on Bilingual Education at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, March 3-5, 1969, and at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, June 27-28, 1969. (DS)

The Graduate Faculty of the University of Iowa voted to lift the college-wide language requirement, leavingthe decision in the hands of the departments. (Author/AP)

The 1959 Survey of English Usage has provided researchers and teachers with a corpus of spoken, manuscript, and printed Standard British English. New uses have been found for the survey's resources in recent years, and the spoken part is more widely available in book and computer tape form. (MSE)

Data in the Survey of English Usage are useful not only for frequency counts but also usage information not normally obtained from introspective analyses of self-made examples or from study of existing grammars or handbooks. Some of these findings are relevant to ESL teaching or syllabus writing. Examples are given. (MSE)

Content changes to avoid sexist language were developed and the assessment instrument to measure the impact of cognitive complexity on behavior was administered with the original test in varied orders on succeeding days. The forms were found comparable and effective for use in further research. (CM)

It is proposed that etymological information, usually provided in native speaker's dictionaries but eliminated from learners' references, can serve several important functions such as disambiguate, relate words that are alphabetically far apart, illuminate by providing an image or reference, and motivate with interesting information. (Author/MSE)

Describes a program for introducing nonstandard speakers to standard English syntactic patterns that involves three steps: (1) introducing the new pattern, (2) providing practice, and (3) manipulating the new pattern. (JL)