Describes a pilot project using the Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA) in a writing program designed for Spanish Americans. Since ITA mirrors the writer's speech it can be used as a diagnostic tool. (JF)

This article aims to (1) propose a new approach to establishing English-as-a-second-dialect programs in schools isolated from professional English-second-language personnel, (2) to report on the procedures applied at one particular high school, and (3) to discuss linguistic features typical of the Negro students in this school. (Author/FB)

Second language teaching in Germany, as described in this article, follows the "moderate direct method" and has the principle aim of enabling the students to express their own ideas in the foreign language. (FWB)

The author outlines a method for developing free composition skills and describes how this method has been used in secondary schools in Kenya. (FWB)

Describes a study in which students who read widely showed greater improvement in writing after nine weeks than did students who had frequent writing assignments, with the implication that reading should be integral to writing practice. (RW)

"The purpose of this paper is to describe what appears to be a successful experiment in teaching levels of diction recently carried out in the freshman composition courses for EFL students at Southern Illinois University." (Author/FWB)

Revision of a paper presented at meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (Minneapolis, Minn., April 1968).

The development of prose comprehension and writing skills in children and, in particular, the issue of what children know about different types of discourse are reviewed. Many different types of studies are considered in order to show how children's prior knowledge might affect their subsequent performance on both reading and writing tasks.…