Study attempted to find to what extent and in what manner the language patterns of a selected group of disadvantaged pupils differed from standard patterns. (Authors)

Discussion of the languages" that comprise living French, including sociolects, technolects, regional dialects, literary vocabulary, and argot. (RS)

Authors believe that the best immediate contribution of systematic language study would be to sweep away the morass of simple ignorance in which literacy is now caught, the elaborate folklore that prevails in language matters. (Authors/MB)

The author stresses the importance of the Fields of Linguistics, Cultural Anthropology, Education, Communication, Rhetoric and Literature in the preparation of teachers of standard English as a Second Dialect (SESD). Paper presented at the TESOL Convention, March 1969. (FWB)

Discusses a research study designed to determine whether rules drawn from the Stanford spelling study, "Phoneme-Grapheme Correspondence as Cues to Spelling Improvement, are applicable across regional dialect lines. (RD)

Poor English speakers should learn proper English but not at the expense of denigrating their dialects. Author feels parents could help by participating in program. Bibliography. (AF)

In dealing with the differences between the school and non-school language of Black children, the author uses a contingency grammar," which considers all speakers of a language to have the identical linguistics competence but includes a level of systematic performance" to account for dialectal and other systematic differences. (FB)

A system for verb classification is developed and 214 irregular verbs are classified accordingly. (FWB)

Paper presented at 3rd Annual TESOL Convention, Chicago, Illinois, March 5-8, 1969.