Noun phrases are often used in academic writing to express the abstract character of the topics discussed. Nouns, especially nominalizations, make it possible to express complicated ideas in a condensed and compact manner, whereas the corresponding verbs make texts easier to understand and more dynamic. In this paper, a case study is presented…

This textbook is part two of an arithmetic course. It provides systematic drill on oral and written exercises, and review and test questions. Attention is invited to the properties of numbers, greatest common divisor, fractions, decimals, compound numbers, business arithmetic, ratio and proportion, alligation, and square and cube root, with the…

Presents a technique for increasing student's interest in language study. (RB)

Challenges visions of a total audiovisual future by defending the importance of written language. (RB)

Special issue on orthography. (DD)

Instruction in the teaching of reading should more closely approximate the natural way children learn and reading instruction will meet with greater success. (Author/RB)

Excerpted from a text dealing with narrative semiotics now in preparation. (DD)

Paper delivered in a slightly different English version, Graphic and Phonemic Coalescence in Old High German'' at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, Chicago, Illinois, December 1967; present article is part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

This study reveals that pupil's writing in secondary schools is viewed predominantly by teachers as a means of gaining feedback and is only rarely seen as a means whereby a child can organize thoughts and feelings. (Author)

Suggests that the Right to Read'' movement should be secondary to a right to think'' movement because language is a symbolic expression of knowing or thinking, and as such it takes second place to the development of thinking. (Author/RB)

Special issue devoted to neurolinguistics and neuropsychology. (VM)