A discussion of the role that interpersonal interaction plays in the perception and interpretation of oral expression looks at language styles, the use of the body for communication, the speaker's perspective on the audience, and the importance of oral skills in politics, business, and job seeking. (MSE)

A guide to the use of authentic European French-language broadcast television for language instruction provides tools and criteria for analyzing its functions, characteristics, and messages. (MSE)

Discusses the issue of the multiple literary traditions of English writers in non-Anglo-Saxon areas such as India, Africa, and the West Indies, each of which is marked by particular linguistic, literary and aesthetic preoccupations that constitute a literary ecology. (Author/SED)

Expresses the belief that young children need poetry as a means of experimenting with language and as training for the later exploration of literature. (AS)

Presents three types of exercises which are designed to develop the advanced learner's awareness of the problems caused by lexis, style, and appropriateness. In addition, describes how translation may be incorporated and used at the active stage and how a somewhat analytical and academic approach to this area of learning/teaching for the advanced…

Describes experiences in helping women students discover their own voices and grounding that voice in their own experience. (CRH)

Applied Syntactic Language Computer Analysis and counts of legal jargon and power speech to analyze the language styles of plaintiffs, defendants, and attorneys in 20 civil trials. Concluded that successful trial participants speak differently than those who fail and that the differences in language style are significant and consistent. (PD)

Filled with examples of French slang and colloquialisms, this article notes the importance of learning such everyday language to speak French correctly. (CHK)

Special issue devoted to the topic of standard spoken usage. (VM)

Explores how a speech variety close to oratorical standard English is learned in one Afro-American peasant community in the West Indies. Material gathered during two field trips, one supported by a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and the other by a National Institute of Mental Health grant. (VM)

Examines and analyzes items on the Grossen Deutschen Sprachdiploms" test of May 1970. (WB)

Originally appeared in Workpapers: Teaching English as a Second Language," Volume 5 (June 1971), Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles, California. (VM)

Reprinted by permission from the Partisan Review," v37 n1 W 1970 p41-58. (DS)