Report on a research project to classify various language registers as related to advanced instruction of English as a foreign language; supported by the English Curriculum Section of the Language Bureau, Public Service Commission of Canada. (RS)

The study, using a design that controlled for chronological age, sex, and intelligence, was conducted to explore the relation between oral language and reading achievement among 45 second grade Pima-Maricopa Indian children attending public school and 24 attending a Bureau of Indian Affairs Day School. (FF)

Part of a project--Gothenburg, Teaching Methods in English--conducted at the University of Gothenburg and the Gothenburg School of Education in Sweden. (DD)

Paper presented March 6, 1971, at the TESOL Convention in New Orleans, La. (VM)

Focus of the study was to assess linguistic competence as manifested by an ability to recognize ambiguity of three types: lexical, surface structural, and underlying structural. (Author)

Report of research findings on productive language differences in beginning fifth grade Black children living in Philadelphia, as evidenced by their use of nonstandard syntactic forms in both speech and writing. (RB)

Discusses the problems of the researcher versus the researched; the unfulfilled promises of research; the dangers of knowing; the misassessment and misinterpretation of facts by scholars; and, the inadequate research design. (JM)

"Education and Culture is a publication for the Council for Cultural Co-operation of the Council of Europe. The autumn 1969 issue is a special number devoted to modern languages. (DS)

Sample tests included. Revised version of a talk given at a meeting of the Allgemeinen Deutschen Neuphilologen-Verband on November 14, 1969, in Dortmund, Germany. (DS)