Stresses cooperation among professional language associations in promoting the study of languages. Presidential address given at the Annual Conference of the Joint Council of Language Associations held at the University of Nottingham, England, on December 28, 1971. (DS)

Reports on the Annual Conference of the J.C.L.A. (Joint Council of Language Associations of Great Britain) held December 28-31, 1971. The Modern Language Association of Great Britain is the main group involved. (DS)

Purpose of this study was to determine whether instruction in general semantics would reduce ethnic prejudice in high school students and to create a course of study that would cause such a reduction of ethnic prejudice. (Author/MB)

Clash of cultures produces the defeatism erroneously called shyness in the Spanish-speaking child. (Author/ML)

Reports on the 1971 International Conference of the Federation Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes in April 1971 in Budapest, Hungary. (DS)

Shortened version of a speech given at the Annual Conference, Joint Council of Language Associations, at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England in December 1970. (DS)

Examines viewers' perceptions of characters and their speech to see if: (1) the language of the characters corresponds to the language of Black speech communities as described by sociolinguists; (2) White viewers perceive language as important in their perceptions of the characters; and (3) White viewers are more likely to identify with speakers…

Over 400 bilingual Hispanic students in grades four and five took the same mathematics achievement test in Spanish and English. Students performed better when tested in English than in Spanish and when tested on concepts than on applications. (MNS)

Examines various perspectives on the issue of French language training for adult immigrants held by French informants, many of whom are engaged in such training. (EKN)