This textbook is intended for use in the third and fourth grades, is divided into approximately 150 planned lessons for each year's work. These lessons are grouped into chapters, each composed of a series of related units that center about a common theme, providing work for a period equivalent in general to a school month. The material on which…

This textbook covers two years' work intended for grades five and six. The book is divided into approximately 160 carefully planned lessons for each year's work. These lessons are grouped into chapters, each composed of a series of related units that center on a common theme, providing work for a period equivalent in general to a school month. The…

This textbook covers two years' work intended for grades seven and eight. The book is divided into approximately 150 carefully planned lessons for each year's work. These lessons are grouped into chapters, each composed of a series of related units that center on a common theme. The material on which conversation and written exercises are based…

INTENDED FOR INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL STUDENTS, "PART 1" OF THIS SECOND VOLUME IN THE "CONTEMPORARY ARABIC READERS" SERIES PRESENTS A COLLECTION OF 20 ESSAYS WRITTEN BY OUTSTANDING ARAB LITERARY FIGURES. SUBJECTS RANGE FROM POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY IN THE ARAB WORLD TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND REFORMS IN AGRICULTURE AND THE WRITING SYSTEM. THE…

THIS TWO-PART VOLUME IS THE FINAL IN A SERIES OF INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL READERS--"VOLUME I-NEWSPAPER ARABIC,""VOLUME II-ARABIC ESSAYS,""VOLUME III-FORMAL ARABIC," AND "VOLUME IV-SHORT STORIES"--DESIGNED FOR USE AS A SERIES OR INDEPENDENTLY OF EACH OTHER. THE INTRODUCTION TO THIS BOOK ("POETRY, PART 1") OUTLINES TRENDS IN ARABIC POETRY, INCLUDING THE…

A TEXTBOOK IS PRESENTED FOR A SECOND-LEVEL COURSE IN THE ARABIC LANGUAGE. THE BOOK CONSISTS ENTIRELY OF EXERCISES FOR LEARNING TO UNDERSTAND AND WRITE ARABIC SCRIPT. (JH)

One of the most widely respected features of English orthography is its sequential redundancy. Its psychological reality is evidenced by the relative ease with which good readers can encode sequentially redundant nonwords as compared to arbitrary strings of letters. Its psychological importance is implicated by evidence that this advantage is…

One model of discourse production attempts to explicate deeper-level decisions that writers make, to explain why some writing activities may be more successful than others, and to indicate likely profitable modes of instruction. The model views discourse production as a series of three interactive decision levels in which (1)…

The principal claim of this paper is that the Japanese passive consists of two different constructions, each derived from a distinct deep structure and each having associated with it a distinct set of syntactic and semantic properties. One of these constructions, the "adversative passive," implies that the grammatical subject of the…

The authors studied the vocabulary of speech and writing of 45 college students to develop a list of the 25 most frequent words and to compare this list with similar lists by earlier investigators. They used a type-token ratio to aid determination of the similarities and differences between spoken and written vocabularies. Nineteen of the 25 words…

This essay contains a brief review of the theory of teaching communication based on Anglo-American inheritance, touches upon twentieth-century changes in that theory and practice, and identifies certain postulates that seem useful as bases for pedagogies in communication which recognize the unique thought processes associated with creating…

This work is intended to provide, in a brief and concise form, for students and other nonspecialists, information on the external history of the principal Slavic languages, i.e., the historical circumstances which affected their utilization in various communicative functions (e.g., as vernacular, official language, literary language, etc.).…

The subject of this book is the development of written Estonian from its beginnings in the 13th century up to the last few decades. This work also attempts to bring out points not made in previous works and pays special attention throughout to the role of Finnish influence. Following the Introduction, chapters deal with the periods (1) from the…