The Office of Education, in cooperation with the Modern Language Association of America, conducted a survey of language laboratories in secondary schools and institutions of higher education during the school year 1957-58. The procedure was to send a short questionnaire to all the schools and colleges known to have a language laboratory and…

This report summarizes evaluation results from AISD's Bilingual Education/ESL programs for school year 2000-2001.

Revised version of a paper read at the Third International Conference of the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers and the Ontario Modern Language Teachers' Association, Rochester, New York, March 29-31, 1973. (RL)

First-year results reported in "International Review of Applied Linguistics," v 10 p 60-72 1972. (DD)

Discusses the education of Indian children (Navajo) in kindergarten who learn in a bilingual-bicultural program. Their instruction begins in Navajo, with English taught as a second language. (Author/RK)

Article presents positive reasons for studying a foreign language and describes one possible outline for developing a program. (Author/RK)

The goal of instruction in standard spoken usage should not be to modify the student's language behavior by rejecting his nonstandard dialect, but to work with him to expand his competencies on the base of his present linguistic competence. (JM)

An exposition and refutation of two writers taken as representative of those accusing linguists who support the teaching of Standard English as a second language of covert racism. (JM)